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What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys, I'm just an ordinary dev looking for something to work on. While messing around with my hobby projects, I couldn't help but notice that under the surface, there are a lot of places that the libre desktop can be improved. I'd like to take on your suggestions on what I should seriously consider working on and helping out with.

Thanks for any comments and suggestions.

(For those wondering, I'm still working on my other stuff.)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I know everyone hates gnome software center, but I happen to like its interface a lot- it has a really irritating bug that makes your view refresh periodically, taking control away from the user until it does. Apparently it'll take a while to fix because it's caused by some underlying problem with how things were structured that needs to be reworked, or something to that effect.

Other than that its mostly just software availability honestly. Freecad is so hard to use it makes me wanna scream, and gaming on my old crappy laptop has given me challenges.

Oh! And I have a weird bug I can't for the life of me find a solution to that makes my track pad stop working periodically, and I have to reboot to fix it 🙃 I'm desperately hoping that a probable upcoming switch to debian, or maybe arch (switching from fedora) will fix it, cause I straight up don't have the technical know-how to diagnose and address it. I only managed to find one reference to the same issue online, on the fedora subreddit, someone else using a hybrid laptop/tablet device. Though when I was trying out new versions of Ubuntu I think it happened then too. I don't think it used to happen with (I think) Ubuntu 18.04, which is what I was previously using

I'm sure a lot of folks would also appreciate better battery performance, thats a pretty universally appreciated area with laptops at least

[–] jasory 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I actually have the same trackpad problem on a Windows 10 2-in-1. Seems it's not unique to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait, really? What device are you using? I'm using a first gen thinkpad helix

I have to assume its due to similar but different reasons, thats genuinely super interesting. Though I guess its possible its genuinely just a hardware thing...

[–] jasory 2 points 8 months ago

Second-hand Dell Latitude 5285. Not sure if it's a hardware failure issue from age, or if kernels actually had problems supporting it.

It's probably unrelated, but your comment reminded me of this since it's the only time I've encountered it.