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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 eutropia »

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…

>Give me a MacOS like experience on the trackpad (especially the 3/4 finger workspace switching) and I'd never look back on MacOS again.

This. This. This.

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

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Post by huherto »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop.

HEADLINE: Better support for proxy for those of us behind corporate firewalls.

DESCRIPTION:Passwords need to be kept in env variables which can leak out. Every tool does it a little different. curl, wget, chrome, firefox. I had to modify python code for apt-get to pass the proxy.

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

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Post by topaxi »

karlmdavis wrote: post #52

- 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…

So much this! _If_ it succeeds in waking up from standby, only 2 of my 3 monitors work, this means I end up rebooting anyways...

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

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Post by j_s »

rxlim wrote: post #43

My biggest wish is Ubuntu (and Debian) switching from systemd to any other init system. I know that won't happen but I was asked and that's the only thing I want, whenever you like it or not.

The first thing I did after reading the Ask HN was Ctrl+F 'systemd'.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

lbruand wrote: post #53

- 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

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

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Post by chimeracoder »

nhaehnle wrote: post #97
chimeracoder wrote: post #10

- 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…

Please file bug reports for your issues, and not just as blanket statements. Many people find the open-source drivers a viable option for gaming, especially now that OpenGL 4.5 is supported and a lot of performance optimization has happened. Your case sounds unfortunate, but it's certainly the exception rather than the rule. It's true that the version that comes with the Ubuntu releases tend to be a bit behind, but y…

> Please file bug reports for your issues, and not just as blanket statements

I'll admit, it's been a while, but my experience with filing tickets for graphics-related issues like these has not always been particularly positive. Debugging them and actually identifying the root cause is quite difficult, and I end up getting bounced back and forth between different bug reporting tools for different OSS projects that may or may not be ultimately the root of the bug, and each of which thinks that the other is the more likely cause.

I have some sympathy here because I know it's tough to identify, but it's a huge time investment on my part for very little apparent gain, especially since these issues are already reported.

Besides, as I said, these issues are pretty well-documented already. I don't think there's a lack of information about the issue; it's just not an easy one to solve, and there are a lot of different organizations that are responsible for various pieces.

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

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Post by z3t4 »

I already have Ubuntu on my servers, PC, and tablet. Now I also want to run Ubuntu on my Phone!

P.S What's up with the non-commercial use disclaimer !?

To make money you should focus on enterprise and education. A lot of organizations want to run Linux, but the current available solutions are total disasters, for example 10,000 units delivered where the OS installed on them was incompatible with the hardware. Enterprises currently run Microsoft, Apple, or Google and I think this would be a fine market for Ubuntu to make some dough. Whatever you do though, don't sell ads or personal info, but I think you already learned that lesson ;)

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