Fewer bugs.
I guess another way to say this is greater stability, which generally means fewer new features and more testing.
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?
#842- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Make Ubuntu Make a first class citizen and bring accompanying documentation alongside this.
- DESCRIPTION: Ubuntu Make has undergone a couple of stages, including a rename process. I would love to see maybe a graphical tool that is either stand alone or a plugin to the Software Center sorta. Maybe a "Ubuntu Make" application with a nice little icon, and it should come with basic tooling at first, but should be a resource for finding documentation on how to build SNAP packages, DEB packages, and just all out do software development for Ubuntu, whether back-end or front-end. I've seen ElementaryOS' documentation and it is nice, I would love to see Ubuntu become a great way for people new to software development and Linux to really get to dive in. Ubuntu Make has more potential than it gets credit for. I would also love to see it resolve installation issues if possible of other compilers and build tools, if there are known issues and known solutions, or some process to aid in fixing such issues that might not be so trivial to newcomers (though that's just me thinking way ahead of time). I hope it gets serious attention at some point. I've had odd issues with the D compiler (DMD) because I'm missing a package or it has to be symlinked, something a newbie would spend hours searching could be part of a simpler set of documentation for developers somewhere.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Developer and daily Ubuntu User at work and at home.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#843- FLAVOR: Ubuntu in general
- HEADLINE: Improve the l10n framework
- DESCRIPTION: The Rosetta/Launchpad framework for translation was pretty good 10 years ago, but has been surpassed by several online frameworks such as Transifex, Pootle, Crowdin, Weblate, and likely several other services. It would really help if the translation process had access to shared terminologies, project and task management for teams, improved translation memory, spell checking, syntax checking, and ways to report bugs or ask for clarifications to original English text.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Member of the Danish translation team since 2005.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#844- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Automated night mode so I can sleep well after work - DESCRIPTION: Reducing the amount of blue light during the night is proven to help people finding sleep after having used their computer at night. So during the night, the desktop automatedly reduce the amount of blue light emitted on the screen by shifting the color balance. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Dev/Machine learner
I would love to have that feature, automated blue light filtering and or screen dimming :)
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#845- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop]
- HEADLINE: hardware manager
- DESCRIPTION: A place where I can see and manage (on, off, drivers) all my hardware devices.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#846- FLAVOR: Ubuntu desktop
- HEADLINE: Better support for printers
- DESCRIPTION: I haven't been able to connect to the office printer after many attempts. The driver isn't included with Ubuntu and the generic driver doesn't work. Tried installing specific driver via Canon's website which came with overly difficult instructions and it still didn't work.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Engineer at a (recently joined) company that's switching from Microsoft to Linux.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#847- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Built-in support for installing up-to-date packages - DESCRIPTION: Currently, `apt install [package]` on LTS Ubuntu will install a package that is up to 24 months out of date (or more if you're not on the latest LTS). Literally one month ago, using the latest version of Windows 10, I installed Ubuntu for Windows (which installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), and `apt-get install nodejs` insta…
I guess if you want a bleeding edge experimental server, you might want to try Arch Linux. But you will have to tinker... a lot. It all comes as a trade off. You get the benefit of rolling release and AUR, you loose the stability.
Here's a balanced comment from the Arch wiki regarding Arch not being meant for the server:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Server#Arch_Linux_as_a_...
"You may have seen the comments or claims: Arch Linux was never intended as a server operating system! This is correct: there is no server installation disc available, per se, such as those you may find for other distributions. This is because Arch Linux comes as a minimal (but solid) base system, with very few desktop or server features pre-installed. This does not mean Arch Linux is a bad server system; quite the contrary. Arch's core installation is a secure and capable foundation. Since only a small number of features come pre-installed, this core installation can easily be used as a basis for a Linux server. All the popular server software (Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP, Samba, and plenty more) are available in the official repository, and even more are available on the AUR. The wiki also contains much detailed documentation regarding how to get set up with this software."
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#848Better aarch64 support. Would like to see raspberry pi 3 and upcoming pinebook supported well. openSUSE support these great at the moment on aarch64, I install the image and it just works.
More focus on the old lightweight DE's and less focus on the new bloated heavyweight DE's that are more designed for touch (GNOME 3, KDE, Unity, I'm pointing at you). Xfce, Mate, and LXQT perform far better in that order.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#849- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Built-in support for installing up-to-date packages - DESCRIPTION: Currently, `apt install [package]` on LTS Ubuntu will install a package that is up to 24 months out of date (or more if you're not on the latest LTS). Literally one month ago, using the latest version of Windows 10, I installed Ubuntu for Windows (which installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), and `apt-get install nodejs` insta…
I guess if you want a bleeding edge experimental server, you might want to try Arch Linux. But you will have to tinker... a lot. It all comes as a trade off. You get the benefit of rolling release and AUR, you loose the stability. Here's a balanced comment from the Arch wiki regarding Arch not being meant for the server: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Server#Arch_Linux_as_a_... "You may have seen the comments o…
Also, because you mention youtube-dl.
Here's the latest package version in the Arch repos (only a few days old =)
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=youtube-dl&maint...
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#850- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Unity Tiling Manager
- DESCRIPTION:
Unity with native tiling manager features that can organise windows automatically like XMonad, i3, Amethyst, etc. But not replace Unity as window manager.
I adore Amethyst automatic tiling in macOS, especially on a 34" ultrawide screen. I used to use Compiz Grid in Ubuntu to manually layout my windows but that was a chore. Then I tried X Tile which was limited, poor UX and poor support for multiple monitors.
XMonad, i3 and others mean replacing Unity all together which I do not want, I just would prefer built in window organisation in Unity. Supporting Xmonad and Amethyst's shortcut keys would be nice for muscle memory.
- ROLE: Technical Architect / Consultant