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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 haspok »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: no new features please, just bugfixes and small adjustments

- DESCRIPTION: please spend at least one, maybe more releases working on polishing existing features and bugfixes. Ubuntu is like 90% there to be the standard desktop of Linux, and the remaining 10% is NOT in adding new features but making sure the existing ones work reliably and consistently. Yes, this is not as exciting as working on new features, but it is exactly what "professional" software development is about. It is pretty easy to get a software 80% done, much harder to get to 90%, but the really great stuff is when you get above 95%. The best OS is the one that JUST WORKS, and you don't even notice it. Same for the UI. So why not take a look at your bugtracker :)

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

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Post by dustinkirkland »

Jailout2000 wrote: post #768

FLAVOR: Fedora HEADLINE: How Ubuntu is terrible DESCRIPTION: dpkg, apt-get, and more commands use ambiguous names (apt-get update && apt-get upgrade for example). The package manager on Ubuntu and Debian should be consolidated into a single 'apt' command, such as 'apt install' or 'apt update'. Ubuntu and Debian default settings are configured like someone didn't read documentation and doesn't care about consistency.…

Classy!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

weirdtunguska wrote: post #440

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - 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 la…

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

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Post by phoenix23 »

givan wrote: post #270

- 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…

Could this be set at boot time instead of install time? That way if RAM is added or removed (or if a DIMM goes bad) it will update automatically.

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

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Post by leksak »

Flavor: Ubuntu Desktop

Headline: a more up-to-date apt-repository

Description:

I'm tired of having to add PPA:s for when I need fresh copies of software. I've never not needed Latex, Python, pip, Gradle, etc. now for most of these apt-get works fine but not LaTeX, Gradle so for now I have a bunch of scripts that I run, for instance https://github.com/leksak/settings/blob/master/install-tex.s...

I'd look to CoreOS for inspiration on how apt-get could be revamped

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

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Post by nightsky30 »

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…

This might be aggravated by this DKMS bug which was found in v2.2.0.3, which incidentally is used in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and maybe other versions. It doesn't remove old initrd files in /boot which lead to full /boot issues and subsequent update problems

I manually removed a bunch of old initrd images the other day.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/616512/purging-old-kernels-fa...

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717584

They've got a bug reported upstream. We need this fixed in Ubuntu

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

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Post by phoenix23 »

Symbiote wrote: post #312
paulirwin wrote: post #277

- FLAVOR: all? - HEADLINE: Improve experience of using 3rd-party apt sources - DESCRIPTION: This suggestion is more apt related, but Ubuntu could lead the improvements. Many software providers (Microsoft, Elastic, etc) are using their own apt repositories to be able to deliver updates faster than the Ubuntu release cycle, which is great. However, configuring them usually requires Googling the instructions and at leas…

It's apt-add-repository. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/man1/add-apt-reposi...

Doesn't this only work for PPAs that are in Launchpad? And doesn't Launchpad have extra limitations that third-party repos don't?

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

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Post by dmritard96 »

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…

#1 is absolutely the biggest one for me and #3 is a solid second.

I have a Macbook Pro with retina and stopped using linux simply because I couldn't get a good resolution on my laptop and monitors. And then when traveling (flights etc), ubuntu chewed through battery probably 3 to 4x as fast as OSX so I wasn't good for that either. As a result, I have been on OSX for a couple years now but would love to be back on ubuntu some day.

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

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Post by collinmanderson »

Symbiote wrote: post #312
paulirwin wrote: post #277

- FLAVOR: all? - HEADLINE: Improve experience of using 3rd-party apt sources - DESCRIPTION: This suggestion is more apt related, but Ubuntu could lead the improvements. Many software providers (Microsoft, Elastic, etc) are using their own apt repositories to be able to deliver updates faster than the Ubuntu release cycle, which is great. However, configuring them usually requires Googling the instructions and at leas…

It's apt-add-repository. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/man1/add-apt-reposi...

apt-add-repository is not installed by default.

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

#870

Post by nightsky30 »

nightsky30 wrote: post #866
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…

This might be aggravated by this DKMS bug which was found in v2.2.0.3, which incidentally is used in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and maybe other versions. It doesn't remove old initrd files in /boot which lead to full /boot issues and subsequent update problems I manually removed a bunch of old initrd images the other day. http://askubuntu.com/questions/616512/purging-old-kernels-fa... https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport…

Ubuntu Launchpad bug here regarding DKMS leaving old files to fill /boot:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/1515513

You can add yourself to the list of people affected to increase the Bug Heat and get this issue fixed.

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