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Linux Usability Improvements

posted by on Wednesday February 22 2017, @09:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-already-perfect-is-not-the-right-answer dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:46PM (#470268)

    I think you are confusing GTK+ and GNOME. XFCE announced plans to move from GTK+ version 2 to GTK+ version 3. There are many benefits behind the move, but there was a fair amount of FUD when the decision was announced.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @08:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @08:55PM (#477127)

    GTK2 was largely agnostic. But GTK3 have been dictated by Gnome wants from day one.

    Thus GTK3 introduce way more Gnome-isms than GTK2 ever did.

    For example, Gnome these days take UI cues from OSX/MacOS. One of those cues are to hide scrollbars by default.

    This "little" detail passed the Firefox devs by when they moved Firefox from GTK2 to GTK3 recently, and they had to rush out a patch as people used the sidebar to judge page size and how much they had left to read etc.

    Expect quite a bit of this to make GTK3 XFCE a bad experience.