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

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

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Post by darpa_escapee »

Symbiote wrote: post #291
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…

Why do you have a /boot partition? $ mountpoint /boot /boot is not a mountpoint I don't know if this is the default, but my KUbuntu machines have been fine for many years without a separate /boot.

Ubuntu mounts my EFI partition as /boot.

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

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Post by nathan_f77 »

onozz wrote: post #299
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…

apt autoremove will clean it up.

Only if you catch it in time, before you've completely run out space. `apt autoremove` will crash if there is not enough space on the disk.

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

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Post by sovnade »

Flavor: Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server

Headline: Change resolution for VNC connections when running Headless

Description: There are no simple ways to do this. Even moderately versed in Linux, I cannot easily change the resolution without driver hacks that typically do not work.

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

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Post by godelski »

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.

I've always resorted to xrander and can get the screen looking pretty good. Though I really think something like this should just work.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

justinsaccount wrote: post #242
stsp wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 -- This is the one and only problem I have to regularly help my non-technical Ubuntu friends (and their friends) with. Every few months they cannot install updates anymore because their /boot fills up and apt fails to install a new kernel package. The simplest fix would probably be to make /boot large enough by default (in the order of 10GB or 20GB or so -- the current size is 512MB IIRC). A better fix would be to…

> The simplest fix would probably be to make /boot large enough by default (in the order of 10GB or 20GB or so -- the current size is 512MB IIRC). Sure, I'll just use 1/6th of SSD to store 60 megabytes. $ du -hs /boot/ 56M /boot/ If 512M is not enough space for /boot you're doing something wrong.

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

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Post by igravious »

cocoloco wrote: post #157

Quiero que Ubuntu sea completamente libre y que el kernel también sea libre.

It is extremely unlikely that this is going to happen so there is no point in even asking for it. It was never one of Ubuntu's stated goals to fill that niche and it is very very unlikely that it ever will be one of Ubuntu's stated goals. There are other distros that aim for what you want, some are even Debian derivatives I believe: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/best-gnu-linux-distributions....

Note that nothing that I have said here implies a value judgement, just that you're looking in the incorrect place for what you desire.

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

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Post by mmphosis »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Add a setting so that The Launcher can be positioned either on the left side (default) or the right side of the display(s).

- DESCRIPTION: I have two side by side monitors and The Launcher is placed on the smaller monitor off to the right. The Launcher is often in the way because it is in the middle of the displays. I really don't think that this is too much to ask for that there be an option to position The Launcher on either the left or right side of the screen.

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

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Post by albertzeyer »

Ruphin wrote: post #56

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Better Mouse Settings - DESCRIPTION: Right now mouse acceleration is enabled by default, and for heavy mouse users this is really not usable. There is no way to change this behaviour in the mouse settings. The only way as a user to get a workable mouse configuration is with custom startup scripts, and it took me as an experienced Linux user and software engineer a long time to fig…

Mouse scroll/wheel acceleration is also sth which gives a very natural feeling on osx but which is missing in Linux. Together with that, pixel-based scrolling, not line based.

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

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Post by godelski »

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…

I used to use Arch and seriously one of my favourite things to see was an update that used negative disk space. Apt has come a long way, but this DEFINITELY needs to be fixed.
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