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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 Wednesday March 01 2017, @05:53PM
Funny thing is that the library problem is not really a problem with the libraries directly, but with how distros handle dependencies. You can have multiple versions of the same library installed, and expect the linker to sort them out at runtime based on something called sonames. But distros, in particular those based around RPM, are hung up on there being one canonical version for each package name. Thus if you want to have, say, two minor versions of GTK installed side by side, you have to play telephone with the package names to get the manager to play along.