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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 Nerdfest on Wednesday February 22 2017, @10:28AM
Definitely with you on KDE. I switched to it after I found Gnome Shell a bit too unstable, and while it had its own stability issues during the release of KDE 5, it's been worth the wait. I think my only complaints at this point are in KMail, where there are a couple of minor bugs that I'd like to see fixed. Other than that I'm pretty happy. I do have a System76 laptop as my main machine, but also run an Acer ultrabook, a Lenovo 520, and am Intel Atom based server (oh, and another couple of laptops as MythTV clients). These run a variety of Ubuntu based releases at this point and their stability is great. I think I should probably give the file server in the basement a restart to get its kernel patches up to date as I think it's been up for about 2 years now with one.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy.
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Wednesday February 22 2017, @11:40AM
Yeah, I'm pretty happy.
Good for you! I have been on KDE for 7 years now and I am unfortunately not as happy as you are. Admittedly I suffered through the pain of the early 4.x versions which taints my KDE experience. Unfortunately, the Gnome alternatives were even worse and I settled for a hybrid desktop (kwin, some KDE apps, Thunderbird, Firefox, etc...).
I still take issue with the bugginess of KDE and the arrogance of the community. Bug reports go unnoticed for years or get brushed of for non-pertinent reasons. At some point I decided to fix a bug myself (konsole) but the code was too convoluted (handling of defaults was handcoded per default) to be fixed.
Also usability regressions are still the order of the day (basic things like the application menu). There are some slow improvements but KDE has a long way to go as a community IMO.
(Score: 1) by Sourcery42 on Wednesday February 22 2017, @05:42PM
I hopped off the KDE bandwagon over a decade ago because it had gotten so resource hungry. Used Fluxbox, XFCE, and LXDE through the years because Gnome 3. Cinnamon is actually pretty darn good these days; for the most part it just stays out of the way and does what I want without a whole lot of care and feeding.