Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by richsu-ca » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:34 PM UTC

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Child friendly (ad blocker, content filter)

DESCRIPTION: For my son's first computer, I picked Lubuntu and spent days making it "internet ready". I installed Dansguardian + Privoxy, then added uBlock Origin to Chrome, then added OpenDNS to my home router. It was a lot of searching online and trial & error but worth it. From time to time, I check websites he visited and what got blocked (grepping logs) and adjust accordingly. One problem with this is updates are blocked so I must disable proxy manually every time I update.

Please consider making something like this available out-of-the-box. Something that can be enabled/disabled with a few clicks. Also, a simple way to review history and adjust settings. It would make Ubuntu an excellent choice out-of-the-box for all kids. Thank you for asking.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by kkarp » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:34 PM UTC

karlmdavis wrote: post #60

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Please, please, please fix space issues with /boot. - DESCRIPTION: I'm constantly running out of space in /boot, due to kernel updates. It drives me so incredibly batty. If I had to guess, this is due to poor defaults in the installer for folks that opt to encrypt their whole disk. Even still, this system was setup back on 14.04 (don't think it started on 12.04), and I have no int…

omg, I am on 14.04 LTS and didn't believe until now it is not fixed in newer releases! :)

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by icc97 » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:35 PM UTC

lnx01 wrote: post #3

- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: An advanced mode for the file manager - DESCRIPTION: I find that the default file manager is a bit dumb. There should be a mode to enable advanced features; like 'connect to server' when one can pick sftp. ftp, smb, nfs, vboxsf etc. It's fine if it's hidden in a configuration modal but 'advanced mode' should be an option. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: user

Also doesn't Midnight Commander do what you're after?

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

#144

Post by rjammala » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:35 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Default Installed packages (add)

- DESCRIPTION: emacs, valgrind, gcc, g++, gdb, vim-full, latest release of Golang

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Engineer

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:35 PM UTC

tiplus wrote: post #12

- FLAVOR: server / all - HEADLINE: remove sha1 PPA signatures - DESCRIPTION: remove the warning "signature by key uses weak digest algorithm (sha1)" and ban sha1 for PPA signatures - ROLE: user

This needs to be done slowly or you're going to piss a lot of people off with broken shit.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

#146

Post by snt » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:36 PM UTC

karlmdavis wrote: post #60

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Please, please, please fix space issues with /boot. - DESCRIPTION: I'm constantly running out of space in /boot, due to kernel updates. It drives me so incredibly batty. If I had to guess, this is due to poor defaults in the installer for folks that opt to encrypt their whole disk. Even still, this system was setup back on 14.04 (don't think it started on 12.04), and I have no int…

-FLAVOR: and Ubuntu Server +1

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by thom_nic » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:36 PM UTC

hyperknot wrote: post #83

lucky_cloud wrote: post #25

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Python 3 as default - DESCRIPTION: In lieu of a description, I'll just link to this: https://pythonclock.org - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Developer, sys admin

Opposing view: This would make me stay on 16.04 LTS for a long long time.

Can you explain why? Assuming you could still `apt-get install python27` and `update-alternatives` to symlink that back to the default `python`, no?

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by blastofpast » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:36 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Full VR Support

- DESCRIPTION: VR isn't just for games. And using VR for productivity is a no-brainer. Ubuntu should be the go-to operating system for the most immersive VR desktop experience. Ubuntu should lead the VR-on-the-desktop revolution by supporting desktop VR (by working with Steam/FBOculus/MS/Google/Samsung as necessary to get the hardware and drivers correct and plug-n-play).

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

#149

Post by pvg » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:37 PM UTC

Isn't this pretty much spam? What interesting discussion could possibly come of it and what if everyone with a product started posting these?

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

#150

Post by j_s » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:37 PM UTC

planteen wrote: post #69

nhaehnle wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. HEADLINE: A way to have different scaling for external monitors hooked up to my HiDPI laptop. This would be awesome. Even when both the laptop and the external screen are 1080p, different scaling could be helpful if you want to use a dual monitor setup effectively. Unfortunately, it's a tough nut to crack given current desktop behavior. For example, you can have a window that straddles both monitors. What should…

Widows 10 handles different scaling (zoom) between monitors far better than any Linux distro I have used. A window keeps the zoom of where it came from until it is entirely on the new monitor. Works pretty well.

Windows also gets my vote when it comes to the per-app volume mixer controls which have been awesome since Windows Vista.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/12/15/vo...