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Linux Usability Improvements

posted by on Wednesday February 22 2017, @09:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-already-perfect-is-not-the-right-answer dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by gawdonblue on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:33AM

    by gawdonblue (412) on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:33AM (#470615)

    Changing everything all the time because "ooh shiny!" also includes throwing out the baby with the bathwater that is Wayland. While at work we've migrated all the Windows apps to remote app servers, some linux desktop people want to remove that functionality because "X is broken". It is f'n not broken. It's working fine on hundreds of thousands of desktops right now. FFS.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @05:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @05:58PM (#473422)

    Pretty much the arguments for X11 being "broken" is:

    1. its remote operations ability was predicated on everyone using X11 primitives to draw their UIs. but all the major toolkits have moved to using either Cairo (or OpenGL, enter Wayland) to basically draw a bitmap and dump that into a window.

    2. any program can grab the content and keystrokes of any other program. Except that this only applies as long as the programs share a root (as in root of the draw tree, not root the user account) window.

    The whole thing feels like a "holding it wrong" moment...