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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 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.