I would like to boot off a USB without getting PCI errors
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?
#722FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Better QA DESCRIPTION: You have no idea how upset I am the top comment is more "fancy, flashy" stuff instead of what Ubuntu really needs: Stability. Better QA, not having my family and friends see another "$x had an issue" every time they boot into their accounts and being embarrassed that I recommended Ubuntu to them. Seriously, I use gentoo, and my gf uses GNOME Ubuntu, and she has…
I would just like to share a different perspective on your point about multitouch — I have several friends who have tried to make Ubuntu their first foray into Linux on a modern "convertible"/ultrabook/whatever with a multitouch screen and run into issues with responsiveness, scaling, etc. Not using Ubuntu myself I don't know how much work is really left here, but multitouch screens should definitely be treated as a first-class citizen of the HID world.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#723Earlier 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…
Leaving aside the implementation difficulty, the answer to "what should the scaling be" seems obvious? Use the monitor scaling for the part shown on that monitor. The switch should happen on a monitor level, not on a window level.
The painting happens on window level, that's why it handled there. Application paints the window whenever it receives event "paint me" for it and it cannot paint different portions of a window at different DPI - from the applications POV, it is a single canvas. Another thing is, that the window resize and dpi change are separate events, so you cannot really call it twice in a row with different DPI and expect the app not getting confused.
Another approach would be to let the application render at higher DPI and the compositor would downsample the portion on the lower DPI display.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#724OK 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…
> Drop [Canonical-specific] & collaborate with [leading variant] That would be great in general. Linux Mint is known as "Ubuntu minus Canonical" for a reason.
Except they invent their own shit all the time also. Sometimes to the detriment of existing products.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#725I just got a new PC and tried to boot Ubuntu off it.
Am getting pci errors. [ 1108.493365] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=0018
[ 1108.493378] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=0018(Receiver ID)
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#726- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Don't force users to have taskbar on the left
- DESCRIPTION: Most users have the taskbar at the bottom. Putting it on the left by default is probably a bad idea, but making it impossibile to move it is most certaintly an awful idea.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION:
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#727- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Make UI more modern (icons + skeuomorphism)
- DESCRIPTION: Ubuntu looks a little dated. Please, please make it flatter, and change the (IMHO) awful icon theme and palette. It's been haunting me for many, many years, and made me never look at Ubuntu as my primary OS.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION:
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#728Earlier quoted context omitted.
User: I want hi-res apps! Dev: Sure, here you go. User: But why is it so small on my new shiny tablet high density screen? Dev: (SHit it worked okay for me) Okay now it detects the density and scale.. User: But when I move the window to my old good lcd screen it becomes way too big! Dev: Okay let's see if I can dynamically adapt to a new monitor density, it's just one scale factor. User: But when I put it on my big t…
MacOS actually in my experience seems to handle this all perfectly. Normal-DPI screens you chose resolution and dragging windows between monitors works as you naturally expect (it pops between DPIs).
Yup.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#729- 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…
sounds like you're keeping too many old kernels, I've had this problem too in the past..try this nice little oneliner: dpkg --list | grep linux-image | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort -V | sed -n '/'`uname -r`'/q;p' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge really, this is what your package manager should do automatically before/after installing new kernels for your reference: http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/how-do-i-remove-old-ke…
That's not a good one liner, because it doesn't do anything about the linux-headers packages (which are hundreds of thousands of small files) or the linux-image-extra packages.
Just run "apt-get autoremove".
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#730FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: A non-dangerous and fast release upgrade mechanism
Currently, the upgrade (as in do-release-upgrade) process takes long, very long if not on an SSD. In my experience, apps can crash during the upgrade. During a recent upgrade I did on a family member's machine, the machine was sent to sleep and the screenlocker crashed afterwards. After powering off the machine, the X session wouldn't come up anymore, I had to complete the upgrade manually on the command line. This was all on Kubuntu, but I don't expect the mechanism to be radically different in the standard flavor, it still puts the machine in a dangerous state.
Release upgrades should be as easy and quick as on iOS or Android.