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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:51AM
I've had similar issues. My guess to you is part of your desktop manager is crashing. Underneath everything is an annoying web of cross application messaging running through everything that wants to listen to it. Likely the desktop sees the message of a new mount and wants to play a notification sound. Somehow that sound playback setting is corrupted or the sound file is missing thus the software crashes because most developers are too lazy to care about quality. Change your notification settings and the wallpaper might stick around.
My biggest annoyance is the Eye of MATE image viewer (and all the other branded versions. Why the fuck does every distro need to re-brand the exact same software as something else?). It seems they all talk to each other. Open up a hundred different instances of the program, using --new-instance or not, and they all slow down whenever you do something in one of them such as opening another image or just moving to the next image in a sequence. They either broadcast their change out to each other or they're all sharing some pool in the background despite them claiming to be different instances. WTF software writers? Please stop ignoring scaling issues. Computers can handle so much more, the software they run can't.