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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 TheRaven on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:16PM
Apple on the other hand, while keeping a very similar standard on hardware and reliability, simply engineer (or make use of) the most amazing business processes, development APIs
It's less true of modern Apple than it was shortly after the NeXT takeover, but one of NeXT's key advantages was realising that APIs are user interfaces and should be subject to the same level of care. This is really rare in open source projects (it's also rare in commercial projects, but open source tends to favour code reuse more, so it's more noticeable). Clear and consistent abstractions, naming conventions, and so on, are very important.
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