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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: 2) by DBCubix on Wednesday February 22 2017, @01:44PM
I just transitioned from Windows to Linux and most everything went smoothly with the exception of OverGrive eating my Google Drive files until I found rclone.
One thing that is missing is VBA macro support in Libre Calc. I used to have my gradebook in Excel and upon exiting it would automatically update the grades on an external server that students could access. I dearly miss that.
My other nit is MLB.TV not playing nice with Mint. I found a virtualbox Debian install that works, but it slightly annoys me.
Other than that I have been pleasantly surprised at the transition. This isn't like the Linux of the early 1990s where I had to compile my own custom kernels and plug and play 1.0 was a nightmare.