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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 theandrewbailey »

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…

In other words: integrate purge-old-kernels

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/purge-old-ke...

Maybe add some stats to know which kernels have booted successfully, so one knows which old ones can be safely deleted, and keep the last 1 or 2 good ones (not always the latest!).

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

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Post by curt15 »

marsRoverDev wrote: post #136
utku_karatas2 wrote: post #49

- 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…

+1 to this. You currently have a lot of devs switching to the Dell XPS 13/15 (myself included) from the MacBook Pro line, wanting to give Ubuntu a go and speccing that particular laptop out with it. 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 ded…

And we know that the hardware is more than capable enough since the XPS touchpads conform to Microsoft's "precision trackpad" spec.

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

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Post by evolvedlight »

mahmoudhossam wrote: post #11
evolvedlight wrote: post #6

- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop] - HEADLINE: Mouse to work - DESCRIPTION: I'd like my mouse to work properly in Ubuntu (or any of my mice). When I start my laptop, my USB wireless mouse scrolls super fast. When I take it out and plug it in again, it scrolls super slow. I'd like that not to happen, and also some way of configuring the scroll speed.

If this is a Microsoft mouse, this software should fix your problem https://github.com/paulrichards321/resetmsmice

Cheers! I'll check this out.

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

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Post by afar858 »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop (or any)

- HEADLINE: Installer should allow dual boot with encrypted disk

- DESCRIPTION: Currently it is impossible to use the Ubuntu installer to install Ubuntu on only part of a disk if you want the Ubuntu partitions to be encrypted. (If it's not impossible, it's hard enough to figure out that this advanced user couldn't, so it might as well be impossible for new users.)

Disk encryption is a requirement nowadays, and many users want to dual boot when they first install Ubuntu. So this prevents users from even trying Ubuntu.

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

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Post by RobertoG »

fiedzia wrote: post #116

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Wayland, Wifi support - DESCRIPTION: numerous wifi dongles still don't work or require unnecessary work

I had problems with integrated Wifi in laptops.

I try 'to sell' Ubuntu to my family but the Wifi drivers are always a problem. Specially with HP laptops.

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

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Post by pizza234 »

gbog wrote: post #131

FLAVOUR: Ubuntu Desktop 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.

You have two options to try:

    1. install the pulseaudio-bluetooth-module, if you didn't
    2. follow the procedure below
BT in Ubuntu is in an embarrassing state, and I'm not exaggerating. After they've upgraded bluez to version 5, the workflow for connecting BT audio peripherals is:

    - connect the peripheral (takes a few attempts...)
    - disable the profile (set to off)
    - disconnect the peripheral
    - re-connect the peripheral (takes a few attempts again...)
    - set the profile to a2dp
this mad workflow has been consistent across multiple machines and audio peripherals.

Before the v5, the BT stack was still garbage, requiring changes (again, verified on multiple machines and peripherals) to obscure parameters in the bluez configuration.

So "please Ubuntu devs", try to produce a working BT stack, and stick with it.

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

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Post by mattkevan »

FLAVOUR: Desktop

HEADLINE: Sort out the default colour scheme

I can't really comment on the more technical side, but the Ubuntu Grey/Purple/Orange colour palette is horrible - it makes the whole desktop feel claustrophobic. There's something icky about it.

Together with the 'quirky' Ubuntu font, which is hard to read at small sizes and not at all helped by Linux's mediocre font rendering, it makes for a fairly unpleasant experience.

Your designers should be looking at Elementary OS for how a pleasurable desktop could be designed, even if it's a bit to close to Mavericks-era macOS.

(I know it's possible to change the theme, but none of them have the fit and finish that a first-party one would have)

ROLE: Graphic and UX designer (who wants to love Ubuntu but can't for superficially visual reasons)

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

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Post by korm »

bubblethink wrote: post #63

FLAVOUR: All HEADLINE: Convenient snapshot & rollback by default DESCRIPTION: Possibly implemented as snapper + lvm thin provisioning or btrfs. Other distros already have this, but it is far from user friendly.

That's my no. 1 request too. Just two days ago I had to reinstall and waste a day because an update messed up my system.

My solution for now is to have TimeShift[0] make regular backups of system files.

[0] https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift

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

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Post by researcher11 »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Dump Mir!!!!!

DESCRIPTION: I know Canonical has put a lot of effort into Mir and at this stage it is probably "too big to fail". But for various reasons my bet is that it will fail. I think this is Canonical repeating Microsoft's Metro mistake. I have a $12K dollar desktop and I don't want an OS optimized for phones !!! I will be able to avoid it but I would rather your engineering effort was better placed.

ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Engineer / Data Scientist

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