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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 urza9814 on Thursday February 23 2017, @06:13PM
I've definitely got some very similar feelings. Although I think you've got a few years on me (I started with Mandrake 9.) Just wanted to say, since I didn't see you mention it, that I've recently found great joy in using the Enlightenment window manager on an Antergos system. It's a bit buggy sometimes -- between being bleeding edge and using less popular packages, I occasionally hit minor issues like when desktop compositing or suspend stops working for a week. I'm trying to remember to NOT update every other day if nothing is broken yet :) So on that front you might have better luck with a distro like Bhodi. But Enlightenment is so easy to configure and has so many options...I can't find anything that I want to change and can't, and found SO MANY things I never knew I wanted to change because the option just never existed.
Even with a System76 Bonobo (a 17" beast of a gaming laptop) KDE lately is bloated and just feels...claustrophobic. I mean I've always been a fan of more minimalist interfaces, spent a lot of time on Openbox and IceWM and even WindowMaker. For a while I'd install KDE when I got a new system, then a year or two later switch to OpenBox or something as it aged. But lately I'm finding that more system resources just means more for KDE to waste on crap like search indexing that I don't even use! Enlightenment just gives me a wallpaper and a program menu then gets the hell out of my way :)
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday February 24 2017, @01:24AM
I've been debating jumping on the E17 ship and see how it is. As far as full DEs go, I'm fairly tempted to stay with LXDE or switch to Cinnamon, but I could be convinced to go to E17 if focus-follows-mouse works respectably. I recently went to WindowMaker for awhile, but I couldn't get the dock to work respectably; it's mostly bitrotten out of most distributions.
I used E16 for a very long time so going to E17 does have some appeal in that regard.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday February 24 2017, @03:41PM
Yeah, I use focus follows mouse (one of the settings I discovered I liked only after switching to Enlightenment -- I think it may be their default) and it works pretty well. The only issue I've ever noticed is that every once in a while when switching virtual desktops the initial focus won't match the mouse location. For example, my first desktop has a browser and a terminal side-by-side, and sometimes when flipping to that desktop focus will be on Firefox when the mouse is over the Terminal. I think it has something to do with the way it moves the mouse pointer when you change desktops to try to keep focus on the window you were using last time you were on that desktop. But it's rare enough that I haven't bothered to really try to figure out what's going on, I just move the mouse over and back and it corrects itself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @06:40PM
The Bodhi team became disillusioned with the way E18 development was going[1] so they forked E17 to produce Moksha.
If you are going to try a newer version of the Enlightenment desktop environment, you may find some extra tweaks which you appreciate in that fork.
[1] We've seen a similar thing with early releases of new version numbers of some notable DEs.
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