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HEADLINE: Bluetooh that works
DESCRIPTION: I never managed to have my PC playing music through blutooth to a bluetooth loudspeaker. (I'm using Xbuntu, playing mp3s with mpv.) I think it could be because the audio system seems messy: should I have jackd enabled? What is it? So maybe the headline should be to cleanup audio system, specially its routes.
- 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…
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FLAVOR Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE Fresher Wayland plumbing libraries
DESCRIPTION
Ubuntu users wanting to use Sway often struggle to get the correct version of all of the dependencies installed.
AFFILIATION Maintainer of a popular wayland compositor
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HEADLINE Better support for debootstrap
DESCRIPTION
Installing Ubuntu with debootstrap should be officially supported and less painful.
AFFILIATION Maintainer of an unpopular build server software
HEADLINE: Ubuntu for tablet devices
DESCRIPTION: Currently no Linux distro has full success installing on a Bay Trail touch screen tablet (for instance).
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop (but may apply to all) - HEADLINE: Add Expert Mode Install - DESCRIPTION: This week I started installing Ubuntu, and the installer is just too basic. That's ok for the common user, but I like installing in expert mode. With expert mode I mean full control of what's being and how it's being installed (eg. network settings, software packages to install, mirrors, etc). I could not even change to…
- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: Make trackpads great again! Bring on gestures by default. - DESCRIPTION: Trackpad config situation is a mess. Pretty much every Ubuntu derivative has its own simplified (reads severely lacking) interface. What's worse is the gestures configuration. It's mostly done via some dude's one off scripts found on some forum post 2 years ago. Give me a MacOS like experience on the trackpad (espec…
Coming from mac, the most jarring experience of moving over is the trackpad. We know that for most trackpads, you can configure them to have similar behaviour for clicking (two finger right click, one finger click, no dedicated buttons), but it is hidden in config files etc. The option to emulate this experience should be baked into Ubuntu and made easy to access.
Palm rejection is also another big point with these trackpads. It doesn't work very well out of the box.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: 1st party hardware - DESCRIPTION: I'd love to buy hardware from Canonical that will just work, just like I do with Apple. Dell comes close, but not close enough that I will recommend it to people. System76 build quality is something I hear people complain about, so I can't recommend them either. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Developer, Ubuntu Member and Ask Ubuntu moderator.
[0]: http://forum.novatech.co.uk/t/linux-compatibility-what-are-the-best-current-laptops-to-choose-from-any-experience-im-thinking-novatech-for-a-new-laptop-i-wont-use-windows-anyway/621- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: More stable and polished desktop - DESCRIPTION: This one is hard to pin down, but I'd like to see more general polish and stability in the Unity desktop. One example would be around multi-monitor support, it's pretty good, but a bit funky in some places. For example, if I have a monitor plugged in and I let the laptop screen lock come on, I can sit there and watch while both displays cyc…
-HEADLINE: Network manager that works
-DESCRIPTION: The single thing that would make Ubuntu seem 10x more polished than it now is the horrible state of the network manager.
The little wifi bar in the top right. Sometimes, randomly, after dropping a wifi connection, or going to sleep and waking it will:
1) Stop listing SSIDs except the one I've already configured and want to connect to. (But I know there's more)
or
2) Show the "wired connection" icon. Gray out the entire wifi section of the network manager dropdown menu. All while it is actually connected to some wifi and I can use the internet.
These issues are mostly fixed by a `systemctl restart network-manager`, but sometimes require a full restart.
I'm the kind of person that recommends people to get Ubuntu. "Everything just works nowadays on Ubuntu". Then I get a call a week later and have to explain to them "just type sudo systemctl restart network-manager into terminal" They then give me the "What? That is so stupid."
ROLE/AFFILIATION: Student / Sysadmin / Machine (Deep) Learning Engineer / Memeber of a students' club that organizes an event on every Ubuntu release where we help fellow students dual boot Ubuntu (or another Linux distro, but we recommend Ubuntu)
EDIT: formatting.
- HEADLINE: binary diff updates for apt-get.
- DESCRIPTION: I have seen Fedora updates as binary diffs. It is very small, uses less bandwidth and space, and gets installed faster.
This request isn't really for Ubuntu 17.10 though (I don't know if there is enough time for this). And I don't wish (actually I hate) this to be an Ubuntu specific feature. I wish this to be an upstream (Debian) feature.
Thanks
a desktop which is stable ( and boots after system updates )