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Arch: Move more of the things shipped by the distro to /usr/, too many things are still in /etc/, /var/ and /srv/. Generally this isn't a problem, but when you want to make an A/B updated image where only /usr/ is shipped it is a bit annoying. Also, bash has no way to have a "distro" version of /etc/profile.
Another benefit is: no .pacnew files in /etc/ (or anywhere else) since those would all be managed by the system maintainer and aren't touched by the package manager
Bring back Linux Mint KDE
Debian, include /sbin and /usr/sbin in PATH by default.
artix:
adding arch repos to artix results in bunch of package issues, after using it for a while it gets to a point where you have to specify 50+ --assume-installed flags just to Syyu
i switched to arch just because of this
For Alpine Linux:
My favorite distro doesn't have the ressources, so i would have the big distros create an alternative to elogind, maybe help on turnstile for this.
The distro itself? Idk I usually just write an ansible playbook to get everything to my liking. Run it once on a new install and everything is good.
I wish Debian had better support for software that wants to do its own package management.
They do it a little bit with python, but for most things it's either "stay within the wonderful Debian package management but then find out that the node thing you want to do is functionally impossible" or "abandon apt for a mismashed patchwork of randomly-placed and haphazardly-secured independently downloaded little mini-repos for Node, python, maybe some Docker containers, Composer, snap, some stuff that wants you to just wget a shell script and pipe it to sudo sh, and God help you, Nvidia drivers. At least libc6 is secure though."
I wish that there was a big multiarch-style push to acknowledge that lots of things want to do their own little package management now, and that's okay, and somehow bring it into the fold (again their pyenv handling seems like a pretty good example of how it can be done in a mutually-working way) so it's harmonious with the packaging system instead of existing as something of an opponent to it. Maybe this already exists and I'm not aware of it but if it exists I'm not aware of it.
id have nobara go back to Firefox as default browser, or at least a chromium that's a little more palletable like Vivaldi or something. heck even a checkbox at installation asking which browser to install would be fine, anything but stock Google chrome
edit: just double checked and it looks like nobara uses chromium not chrome, my bad
I wish for a default freeworld fedora.
For me Fedora only needs to speed up the dnf and update the installer.
You might like what's coming for F40 at best and F41 at worst...
Stop using stupid adjective/animal for release names. When editing an apt list I don't want to have to lookup "which release was 'xenial'?" Just use the yy.mm format.
Alpine linux but with layers just like Fedora Silverblue
Manjaro: someone diarize the fucking SSL renewal date, please.
I would like Debian and the fsf to come to some kind of agreement so Debian can ship the emacs documentation.
Every distro with gnome.
Make RDP work as well as it does on Windows.
I'm talking about remoting into the Linux system.
Everytime the system is restarted you have to physically login to the system to unlock the keyring so that your RDP password is accessible or you won't be able to get in. Or you have to remove your keyring password all together. Why is this different than the regular user password?
Also it's weird that it works like VNC where you are controlling the system remotely but anyone local can see what you are doing on the screen. It is also cool to have that option but it shouldn't be the default.
I'd like Gentoo ebuilds to run in a fully isolated namespace/container with only the dependencies explicitly enabled by portage configuration. Something like a mix of nix but with the ebuild syntax.
Fedora Silverblue.
I want to be able to play YouTube videos in Firefox. And video files on desktop. Layering on rpmfusion didn't help. And why will videos play in Gnome Web but not Firefox ugh.
I suggest rebasing to ublue. https://universal-blue.org/images/
Packages from rpmfusion (codecs, mesa-freeworld) are all added to the base layer of silverblue so shit works ootb
Fedora user here. A great improvement would simply be shipping unmodified (non "freeworld") versions of mesa packages in the official repositories, so you don't have to install them from rpmfusion, as they are often a few days behind with their mesa package upgrades, which leads to conflicts/issues in the dnf update process.
I'd love yearly Debian releases instead of just every 2 years.