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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 NCommander on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:40AM
Generally the problem is library skew. It's possible to side-by-side install older ABIs and get them all to work if you're dedicated (I've managed to get a.out binaries going on Ubuntu 14.04 as a shit and giggles moment).
Easiest thing to do is if you're running a debian derivative is simply debootstrap a release from that era. Something like "debootstrap --arch i386 potato /my-chroot-path http://archive.debian.org/debian/" [debian.org] should do the trick.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday February 23 2017, @07:01PM
That was definitely the problem. (I'm running, I think, Red Hat 5.2 in the virtualized environment.) But the request was for "what would make Linux better to use", and for me that's the problem...and by now the only problem, though I have a few MSWind95 games I'd like to play, I've never felt the need sufficiently to get the virtualization working...but wine doesn't really handle them.
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