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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:05PM
Too much dependencies preventing simply just installing the latest versions of a given software. Granted os updates are free, but a 14 year old linux distro is not like a 14 year old windows (xp) that can still manage to run modern things.
And then there's the complications of audio routing. I wanted to learn a DAW in linux some time ago. but getting sound output was already too much pain. So i just ditched it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @08:38PM
Oh Linux audio. Such a great example of kludges on kludges on kludges. OSS, ALSA, aRTs, Phonon, EsounD, JACK, pulseaudio, NAS, NMM, and there is probably some I missed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @02:24PM
Would have been less painful if they maintained a consistent user interface across OS upgrades. Also knowing that you're OS will soon be obsolete in a few years, and OS upgrades mean something might be broken or you might have to start from scratch again with your customizations is somewhat discouraging.
The system audio confusion hell is a pity, given that there appears to be more better free DAWs for Linux than for Windows. Makes me wonder how the developers keep up with so many audio standards.