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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 jasonjayr »

arthurz wrote: post #551

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Better support for peripherals - DESCRIPTION: Drivers suck If you buy a wrong printer brand or model you may end up returning it. Simply because it happened not to be supported by the manufacturer and/or Ubuntu Overall, the desktop needs more radical refreshes, bash replaced with OhMyZh, no more Unity and a batter package manager, too.

Ubuntu has the brand name recognition that they could create a certification or compatibility program.

Imagine if they would license a trademark to be used on products that will work out-of-the box on a linux system. No more guessing....

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

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Post by tajen »

VonGuard wrote: post #561

No one has been ragging on Unity.... They should be. Unity is still garbage. Ruined Ubuntu for me after about 10 years of usage... Still never returning because Unity is such a resource hog, so non-standard in its interface, and the fact that teaching someone Unity is a useless skill. We used Ubuntu for years to teach people how to use a computer for the first time: we gave them old PC's with Ubuntu installed. Unity…

Ubuntu dropped the ergonomic Gnome to whip us with their own custom, unpolished Unity.

Now they're doing it all over again with Mir, while Wayland could be a Linux standard. Sounds like IE all over again.

That gives me trust issues with Canonical. More, they now leverage trademark law to forbid people from using ubuntu-? packages.

Then they pulled the Amazon search in the menu, it showed Canonical's misunderstanding of privacy issues.

Doesn't prevent from using Ubuntu, but I give 1% of my company's revenue to open-source ($800, to LE and Postgres), I don't consider Canonical as a candidate in the OSS category.

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

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Post by tracker1 »

egnehots wrote: post #584
skamoen wrote: post #14

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop: 1. HEADLINE: A way to have different scaling for external monitors hooked up to my HiDPI laptop. Currently I need can only set a single scaling factor, so I need to ajust my laptop screen resolution to match scaling of the external monitor. If that's not possible, a way to automatically set resolution and scale for both screens once you hook one up would already save me a lot of manual switc…

User: I want hi-res apps! Dev: Sure, here you go. User: But why is it so small on my new shiny tablet high density screen? Dev: (SHit it worked okay for me) Okay now it detects the density and scale.. User: But when I move the window to my old good lcd screen it becomes way too big! Dev: Okay let's see if I can dynamically adapt to a new monitor density, it's just one scale factor. User: But when I put it on my big t…

If the OS (not an app) could allow you to tweak the native pixel resolution, scale, size of each display, even under "advanced settings" that would go a long way towards helping.

This is at the Operating System level, not like some random one-off application.

For me, the one feature I miss the most is a checkbox option for "Native Scrolling"; Did this really need to be removed?

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

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Post by aaronbrager »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Easier transition from macOS

- DESCRIPTION: A number of things really annoyed me when I used Ubuntu the first time and I found them difficult to fix. I would love a "migration assistant" that did stuff like:

- reverse inverted trackpad

- configure keyboard shortcuts to be more familiar

- offer to import my dot files from the Mac partition (shell settings, gitconfig, etc)

- offer to mount my Mac partition

- migrate my macOS Keychain

- etc

All this stuff took me way too long to set up and I feel most of it could be automated.

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

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Post by riffic »

e12e wrote: post #512
riffic wrote: post #471

Remove the update notification from the motd: https://imgur.com/a/6SD97 This message breaks boxes. I'd also like to see MariaDB in main, not universe.

I know there's few better subjects for bikeshedding after vim vs emacs than "what should be in /etc/motd, /etc/issue and how should they interact with logins (ssh, console and xorg/gui)" - but how does this "break boxes"? I guess for consistency, as update-motd seems to be installed by default(?) and the motd is called in /etc/pam.d/login by default - xmotd or something similar should also be installed to make sure t…

In certain environments with um, less sophisticated administrators, this MOTD is taken as an imperative command to deploy an update to the operating system of a production service.

Just one example of a broken box:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/876510/booting-into-read-onl...

The result of these in-place upgrades usually end up with the admin crying the rest of the night because they shot themselves in the foot.

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

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Post by Fl1nt »

- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Core]

- HEADLINE: MAAS available as snaps

- DESCRIPTION: as juju and lxc/lxd are already available as a snap package, it would be awesome to be able to deploy maas as multiple snaps using plugs and slots allowing enterprises to deploy it quickly through custom ubuntu core images.

This would be useful in a production environment but also in case of emergency plan as it would allow a quick datacenter restore right from an admin laptop and a SDCard.

- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Core]

- HEADLINE: basement for all other flavors

- DESCRIPTION: Ubuntu Core is the most interesting idea (along with juju, maas, lxc/lxd and snaps) the canonical bring since ubuntu itself, please use this distribution design as a basement for any other ubuntu flavor.

I know it’s a loooot of work as you would have to snap package every single service/tool/other available on the ubuntu repository, but it’s absolutely needed.

CoreOS have started this philosophy of immutable, safely updatable and reliable distribution, but Ubuntu as the potential to push it way further with ubuntu core.

Ubuntu Core need this step to become a defacto solution for enterprise. Now a day, enterprises tend to use CoreOS because they’ve made a clear statement of how they will support this philosophy on a long term.

If you want to get enterprise customers back to you canonical, please strongly support ubuntu core! Using it as a basement for all other flavors would be a strong statement in that way ;-)

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

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Post by ge96 »

- less resource intensive standard DE, though I default to using i3

- if the disk creator could also create non-ubuntu isos. For me it would only create Ubuntu disks. Also if I try unetbootin it usually doesn't work. I'd either save/have a Linux Mint just for this purpose or use Rufus/YUMI in Windows.

I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu. Mostly it's great at having drivers.

Recently though I haven't been able to install LAMP right. PHPMyAdmin wouldn't work right either. And PHP doesn't parse right away, have to mess around with loading modules. I'm not sure why that is because I have a Ubuntu desktop set up with LAMP. This was yesterday that I tried to set it up on a new machine. Maybe time to switch to Node finally.

My own problems I realize, got 99 problems Ubuntu ain't one.

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