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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @12:17PM
My main issue, and the only one I still run a windows OS at home is games. Everything else Linux is good enough or better + it doesn't want to spy on me. If the games I like would work on linux I wouldn't even think about getting Windows. (And I mean native, I don't want to fiddle around with wine and ...)
There are some good games on linux now, several open source games I like and I see a good increase in the last years. So it looks like my next computer could be Linux only.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday February 22 2017, @01:29PM
Lately, the NES homebrew scene of all things has been coming up with enough games that one can just sudo apt install fceux and then just visit NESdev and PDRoms.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:28PM
I use computers for CADCAM and gaming. If I were to run Linux I'd have to put Windows in a VM and run everything in that, so it would just add another layer of headache.
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