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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:47PM
I have been on Linux for almost a decade - various flavours, mostly Ubuntu and Mint. With the last "big" upgrade I found some new-kids-on-the-block devs have "decided" to make apps more "flat". Let me pick on just one glaring example. gThumb, which was getting close to being a Swiss Army Knife equivalent for Irfanview, suddenly behaves stupid, mouse-click responses are different and no longer per gThumb's own documentation.
Sadly gThumb is not alone - gEdit and other G-tools are all affected. Are we seeing another Gnome3 disaster and users-devs disconnect? Look, I will never go back to Windows in any shape form or manner, nor allow an Apple into my home, ever. But I can distro-hop if I have to. The problem is when these kiddies get influenced by the "latest design fashion" and recode perfectly working applications into the ground. You have to wonder if these devs ever actually use their own applications, because for those of us who rely on them daily for workflow, many programs are now nearly unusable. This could kill Linux. Hey devs, stop doing MS's sabotage for them, improve, don't degrade.
This is my view, my gripes, my world. Linux usability was super until Ubuntu 16.10 / Mint 18.0 came along. It now has a case of acute regression and this must be addressed. Problem is "they" decide, and much like MS forcing Win10 down your gullet, they shove their latest G-nome idiocy on users. And unlike MS/Apple, you cannot FIRE them!