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- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Set vm.swappiness on install based on machine ram. - DESCRIPTION: The difference in responsiveness can be remarkable if it's lowered on systems with more ram. Most laptops and pc's these days have 4gb on average but the ones with hdds will be very slow on ubuntu because of default vm.swappiness vm.dirty_ratio vm.dirty_background_ratio etc that are set for older machines. Adding th…
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop TOPICS: Encryption, Apt, Wayland, Bluetooth, and GPU HEADLINE: Encryption needs to work easily and not be a pain with path names. DESCRIPTION: Home folder encryption. Feels like basic security. But there are a lot of problems that seem to come with it. One of these is the path length issue. This issue has been known for A LONG time. To me it is unacceptable that this has not been solved yet. Th…
You're thinking of file based encryption that's used by the "Encrypt my home directory" feature in the Ubuntu installer. Full disk encryption doesn't have path length issues. The installer supports setting up full disk encryption and I would recommend using that, over file based encryption, on a single user desktop system.
- 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…
+1 -- This is the one and only problem I have to regularly help my non-technical Ubuntu friends (and their friends) with. Every few months they cannot install updates anymore because their /boot fills up and apt fails to install a new kernel package. The simplest fix would probably be to make /boot large enough by default (in the order of 10GB or 20GB or so -- the current size is 512MB IIRC). A better fix would be to…
What? This is ridiculous and unacceptable. I don't use Ubuntu anymore, can someone tell me what is filling up the boot partition?
I'm currently on ArchLinux and mine is 200MB and it's 14% full! I can't fathom what could occupy so much space.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: More stable dock/undock and sleep/wake handling. - DESCRIPTION: I've noticed that my system often hangs unrecoverably with a blank screen during dock/undock and sleep/wake events. I've learned, though, that I can reduce the likelihood of having problems by trying to minimize the number of state changes that the system has to handle at once. For example, if I'm leaving the house wi…
Even though it doesn't take me much time to recover state its really annoying to know that I have to figure out all these issues anytime I start using a Linux laptop.
HEADLINE: Power management
DESCRIPTION: I likely will not be running OSX anymore, and you guys are going to find a large number of defectors. Concentrate on optimizing power. This will also help performance.
ROLE: Angry former Mac User
- HEADLINE: Full compatibility with Debian packages and paths
- DESCRIPTION: Please, please keep package and paths compatibility with Debian. The amount of work to get Debian packages work on a recent Ubuntu distribution is huge, and there are a lot of scientific software that is geared to Debian, not Ubuntu.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Research Scientist on a large Multinational
- HEADLINE: Please don't mess with python package management
- DESCRIPTION: Take a look at this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.4/+bug/129...
This happened because ubuntu decided to unbundle some packages that come as a part of the python ecosystem. This is really a major annoyance because it breaks default behavior that people have come to rely on in every other platform, and confuses the hell out of people - just google for similar keywords and you'll find tons of questions and discussions around this and similar issues. Please don't mess with this stuff, or if you're going to break them, break them in a way that tells the user what the heck to do - it costs real hours and effort to debug and work around these things for production deployments.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software / Data engineer
- HEADLINE: First boot post-install hook
- DESCRIPTION: There is currently no clean way to have a script run only once post-install, first boot. There are hacks for making this work to a degree, including things like self-deleting init scripts. I would most prefer to see this hook officially supported in robust way.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Systems Engineer
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: optimize Ubuntu for people who suffer migraines/headaches and other health issues when working with displays. - DESCRIPTION: There's a small niche of users who suffer badly when working with displays. There are all sorts of things to optimize(mostly to kill various flickers and too much brightness) - no backlight refresh by putting backlight at 100% and using some screen filter ap…
+1 This would be a great feature for people like us.
- HEADLINE: Make KDE again a first class citizen
- DESCRIPTION: Kubuntu used to be very similar to the Ubuntu distribution and now, because of the "fork", it´s drifting. It is also very different on configuration, packages and behavior when doing an `apt-get install kde-desktop` on an Ubuntu installation versus Kubuntu, and it should be the same. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Research Scientist on a large Multinational