No Unity. I dunno if that's a stilo thing but that turned me off from ubuntu, probably forever.
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?
#302- FLAVOR: Xubuntu
- HEADLINE: A release entirely focused on performance
- DESCRIPTION: Profile Linux daemons and Ubuntu services which run full time. Fix performance issues from biggest to smallest. Reduce memory footprint for all services across the board, making it much nicer for those of us with 4GB laptops.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Developer who uses KDE Neon at work and Xubuntu at home.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#303FLAVOR: all
HEADLINE: More stability
DESCRIPTION:
On systems that have very little customization, I regularly get 1-2 crashes after the login that ask me to report them again and again. Systems regularly fail to boot after upgrading the kernel when proprietary Nvidia drivers are installed (the ones Ubuntu suggested to me), because stuff is not properly recompiled. The file manager crashes when connecting to a SAMBA share for the first time during a session.
I can fix this crap (although I'm getting tired of it), but for regular users, they go straight back to Windows. Stuff like that simply can't happen in a stable release or at least it needs to be fixed ASAP.
I like Ubuntu, but think that you are handling the support for multiple releases poorly and it might be better for everyone to switch to a rolling release, like Windows did. The users would get better support and updates and your developers would have more time to improve the software, instead of managing broken releases. As it is now, you are getting buried in bugs and there's no end to it.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#304Default "Maker Integrations" for platforms like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, 3D Printing, CNC Routing, Laser Cutting, etc.
Basically and open source fabrication should be included in the optimal open source operating platform. Keep the world of innovation open for hardware and software.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#305If someone hasn't said it already, I'd love to see a keyboard shortcut akin to Windows's snap-to feature.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#306Default "Maker Integrations" for platforms like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, 3D Printing, CNC Routing, Laser Cutting, etc.
Basically and open source fabrication should be included in the optimal open source operating platform. Keep the world of innovation open for hardware and software.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#307- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: Bring back gaming support for AMD graphics cards. -DESCRIPTION: Pipe dream, but: the ability to run games with an AMD graphics card, the way we could with 15.10. Google "Steam AMD Xenial" and you'll see how big of a mess this is. As of a year ago, gaming on Linux was pretty viable with an AMD graphics card, using fglrx. However, because that was deprecated, it was removed in 16.04, and t…
The AMD engineers have decided to only support the open-source amdgpu driver and diverted all resources from fglrx to amdgpu.
Due to this, 16.04 does not have fglrx because the X11 server in 16.04 is not compatible any more with fglrx.
Around this time (end 2016/early 2017) it was supposed for amdgpu to get parity in features with fglrx. I have not checked, are there issues missing from amdgpu? You would need to test, and preferably test with the AMDGPU PRO driver distribution from AMD (has the very latest support that may take a bit of time to make it to the upstream projects).
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#308- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: Application Menu search like MacOS - DESCRIPTION: I usually use macOS but occassionally use Ubuntu and I really miss the ability to lookup functionality in my application by typing the name of a menu entry under help. On macOS this will drop down the relevant drop down menu and show the menu entry I am searching for. I use this a lot. Especially in complex applications this is very usefu…
Ubuntu already has that.
They call it HUD: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/HUD
Press Alt (as mentioned in other comment)
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#309- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: ZFS on root in installer - DESCRIPTION: as headline! ZoL is awesome. Extra hoops though to install on root. - Head of development @ an ISV.
I know it's not really an Ubuntu bug, but ZFS on Linux is broken. Try growing a disk in say VMWare or VirtualBox at see ZFS on Linux not knowing how to grow the filesystem.
It would be nice it that was fixed.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#310Hi Dustin! - Ubuntu Desktop - Ubuntu Subsystem for Windows :) - An integrated system (Wine is not user friendly imho) to launch windows programs. - linux (and windows) user and developer. @vinnes
I may be wrong, but I don't think Canonical has the engineering resources to pull it off. Even if they did, the main issue is that Microsoft does not publish their API spec which is why Wine and ReactOS devs bend over backwards to be compatible with Windows binaries. It also does not make sense from a business perspective. Considering there is no demand for such a system outside of the very, very small number of hobb…
Also I want to add, if you want to use Windows programs using VirtualBox or VMWare (+ lots of RAM) is probably the way to go. The Windows stuff doesn't work on macOS either. (I even bought the CrossOver stuff ;))