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from the it's-already-perfect-is-not-the-right-answer dept.
We all know about Microsoft's latest OS, so I won't rehash. A lot of us intensely dislike it, to put it politely. Those of us who can, use other operating systems. This is Soylent, so let's focus on the one that is the most important to us: Linux.
I have been using Windows as my OS since right after Atari times. A few years ago I bought an ARM (ARMHF/ARMv7) netbook and put Lubuntu on it. I had problems with my first Linux experience, mainly in the area of installing software: missing packages in Synaptic, small dependency hells, installing a package at a time by hand, some broken stuff. I put it down mainly to the architecture I have been using, which can't be supported as well as x86-64.
Now, we all know that no software is perfect, and neither is Linux, even though it is now my main OS. We support it in spirit and financially, but there is always room for improvement.
So, the question is: What are your problems with Linux and how can we fix them? How do we better it? Maybe it's filesystems, maybe it's the famous/infamous systemd. Let's have at it.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by coolgopher on Wednesday February 22 2017, @11:42AM
1) The desktop environments keep getting "overhauled" and "improved" every few years, to the point where I've given up on KDE/Gnome/Unity/etc and gone back to WindowMaker. New and shinier != better. Needless to say, Linux isn't the only platform suffering this particular disease. As for WindowMaker, it'd be just about perfect if it had just a tiny bit more modern features, such as easy built-in multi-monitor setup, but it's certainly only a nice-to-have.
2) Speaking of multi-monitor setups, the nouveau driver is the second most prolific system hoser for me, and I've lost countless hours to fixing my X after an update decided to reinstall nouveau for whatever reason (these days I blacklist it very early in the installation process, thank-you-very-much). I really wish Nvidia would relent and open up their drivers enough that distros don't default to nouveau. This is not to belittle the nouveau developers, they're probably doing a great job considering the lack of docs, it's just that on my systems that driver has never worked properly.
3) Aaaaand the primary system-hoser award goes to... *drumroll*... SystemD! While I oppose SystemD on a philosophical level, it has truly earned my ire through simply fucking up previously working systems, and introducing dependency-hell through the entire package base.
Oh, and a nice-to-have: better & default ZFS support would be great.