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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?

#541

Quiero que todos los paquetes estén actualizados a la ultima versión y que todos los programas estén actualizados a la ultima version

Translation: "I want all the packages to be updated to the most recent version and all the programs to be updated to the most recent version."

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

#544

OK here goes.. - FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Drop Mir & collaborate with Wayland - DESCRIPTION: I know this is a touchy subject and I'm not looking to self-righteously re-re-re-ligitage everything but... between Intel walking away, licensing concerns, Ubuntu varients not jumping onboard, and various community concerns, would you re-consider abandoning mir and joining forces with Wayland? I understand you felt…

> - HEADLINE: Drop Mir & collaborate with Wayland That would more accurately be: - HEADLINE: Port Unity 8 to be a Wayland compositor This would be at least a multi-year effort. Consider how much time and effort went into porting Gnome Shell and KWin over to Wayland. It would be at least as much work do the same with Unity 8.

Finishing Mir is also a multi-year effort. So, where would the programmer-hours best be spent?

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

#545
- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Server]

- HEADLINE: User Home Directory Permission

- DESCRIPTION: IN Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu allow to read each other users files which is security issue on Webservers.

Refer - https://plus.google.com/+MiteshShah/posts/htkjBMrmVZ5

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: (Linux System Admin/DevOps)

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

#546
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.

Yup! That "something wrong" is installing every single kernel update for two, three, four years and not deleting any of the old kernels.

Super common in enterprise deployments. I ran into this a bunch on my $EMPLOYER-issued workstation.

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

#547

Flavor: Desktop Headline: Polished and modern Desktop/User experience. I'm using Ubuntu full time for the past 4 years. Some how it still feels like I am using some what old software although Ubuntu has come a long way since the beginning. I don't mind a release with no new technical improvements but only dedicated to improve all the little details and a polished experience of the overall user experience. Given looks…

What, specifically, do you mean by polished? Please give examples.

Polished as in window animations, tastefully done transparent windows by default on hardware that support it, snappy application menu, desktop and file manager icons that conforms to grid, black title bar with white fonts is a too strong to name a few.

In my opinon, There must be one release tailored towards UI improvements among the three releases that leads to LTS preferably as the one that follows LTS because there is a solid platform to build upon and there is enough time to iron out UI bugs in the next LTS.

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

#548
I want 17.10 to be able to jailbreak and install on the Samsung 8+. Samsung is looking to provide a phone/pc in one device, but I use ubuntu as my os today and want to continue. Samsung is already doing all the hw and docking work... but their sw is bloated and locked down... I want the freedom that ubuntu provides on a great phone/pc.

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

#549
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Officially supported i3 or equivalent

DESCRIPTION: i3 offers a vastly superior power-user usage experience, pretty much compared to anything else in the market. If Ubuntu would offer a properly configured/themed/integrated i3 desktop, I'd be happy to use it, because I've done enough pointless fine tuning for one lifetime. I'd be fine with some other tiling window manager too, as long as if it was at least as good as i3. I have doubts that this could be done properly with Unity, but I won't mind being surprised.

ROLE: Desktop Linux user since '96.

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

#550

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: NVIDIA-nouveau conflicts that result in black screens after login unless various fixes are applied manually. - DESCRIPTION: No more nastyt nouveau-NVIDIA driver conflicts that result in black screens after login -- see all these reports here: https://www.google.ca/search?q=nvidia+ubuntu+black+screen&oq... - ROLE/AFFILIATION: CEO, Exocortex.com / Clara.io / ThreeKit.com

Sadly, the best workaround is to uninstall the Ubuntu blessed nVidia drivers and use the installer you download from nvidia.com. These even continue to work after you update the kernel, usually. They are also way more recent.

EVen so, this should be automatic. It is a horrible experience to install NVIDIA drivers on ubuntu. I am not sure the solution but we shouldn't sacrifice usability in the same of "open source"-ness.

It should be a check box on install to install NVIDIA drivers that are propreitary such that we do not get a black screen.

Anything but a black screen.

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