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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 NCommander on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:28AM
On the topic of network mangler, simply define the interface in /etc/network/interfaces on Ubuntu, and NM will mark it as "disabled" in the UI and will not try to change it. I do this with the ethernet adapter on my desktop, while leaving NM control wifi because dealing with WPA on the command line makes me sad. This is noted in the NM documentation but easy to overlook.
One gotcha with this: make sure you have an ethernet adapter that has a persistent MAC address. This *usually* isn't a problem on x86 machines, but some ARM boards randomize MACs on boot. udev has a rule to make sure that a given mac always gets the same ethX number so the above works. If it sees a new MAC, it assigns a new number. I found a kernel bug that way when we overflowed an integer :).
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Thursday February 23 2017, @10:19AM
On the topic of network mangler, simply define the interface in /etc/network/interfaces on Ubuntu, and NM will mark it as "disabled" in the UI and will not try to change it. I do this with the ethernet adapter on my desktop, while leaving NM control wifi because dealing with WPA on the command line makes me sad. This is noted in the NM documentation but easy to overlook.
Thanks, that is helpful. Unfortunately this didn't work on Fedora. I found some other documentation [qacafe.com].
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