StudlyCaps wrote:
I've actually been pretty impressed by how much better laptop support has gotten over the last 5 years, but still Linux just feels fragile in a way that Windows hasn't for a long time. Like I'm always worried it will fall apart at the slightest provocation. Admittedly I feel like this is mostly Xserver and the rubbish GUI tools rather than anything to do with the Linux kernel.
I feel like Windows is the fragile one, it always seems to replace the drivers I install with the drivers it wants to install. Admittedly the proprietary nvidia drivers are a bit rubbish on Linux, but when I tried Wayland on an Intel iGPU I was quite pleased with how smooth it ran. It was nice to drag around windows without a ton of tearing.
StudlyCaps wrote:
I run it in a VirtualBox on my Win 10 desktop so I never have to worry about native graphics drivers and if the system gets borked, I can just rollback a snapshot.
I think that filesystems like btrfs and ZFS support snapshotting, maybe that'd be good for you.
alexfru wrote:
On one system if I log out and let it turn off the display, upon returning to it and entering the password the screen at first appears to turn on and work normally, but as soon as I enter the last password character and hit Enter the screen stops being updated as if everything hung right there (it was my impression the first time when I ended up rebooting), however the system is otherwise functional. Restarting lightdm (or whatever it is) fixes this at the expense of loss of all open windows/apps, which sucks nearly as bad as forced reboot except you don't corrupt the file system.
What graphics drivers are you using? I have issues like this with the proprietary nvidia drivers.
alexfru wrote:
Connecting my iPhone hung the system once.
I don't use an iPhone so I can't really comment, but with my Android phone using MTP, everything just works.
alexfru wrote:
Connecting another USB device with some connectivity issues (not sure which of the two sides is at fault, happened once) may cause the UI to open up an error message window on every disconnect/read error, hundreds or thousands of such identical windows in mere seconds, which makes the UI unusable and leaves it in a broken state.
Yeah I think that Ubuntu goes a bit over the top with the bug report error messages, I think if one pops up multiple times it gives you the option to suppress future messages of that type.
alexfru wrote:
You would expect icons of multiple instances of the same program/directory to group together on the "task bar". How about losing an icon because of it somehow being adopted into the group of the web browser icons, with which it has nothing in common? You can see the process in ps or top alright, but not its window or icon on the screen because you're not looking where it's hiding!
I think this is a problem caused by application developers. Seems the class name in the .desktop file isn't set and then Unity just groups things in a weird way.
alexfru wrote:
Keyboard delay/repeat settings sometimes somehow change. I can't completely rule out my project (large and complex build or QEMU), but at the moment I blame it on Ubuntu. Either way I need to move the sliders in the settings a bit to restore the comfortable values.
I've never changed those settings so I can't really comment, but it's probably a bug on their end and not yours. Maybe it's worth a bug report so that somebody can take a look at it.
alexfru wrote:
Tabs in Terminal routinely stop being draggable/movable by the mouse. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong every now and then and they lock in response to my erroneous actions, but I have to right click and select move left/right if I'm not happy with the position.
I never even knew that the terminal had tabs
I just usually end up using tmux.
alexfru wrote:
Botched text copy'n'paste. Between some sources and destinations I can use both keyboard and mouse, between others only mouse (I get garbage if I use keyboard to paste text; AFAIR, it's when copying from FireFox to Terminal)
There are two clipboards, one that gets copied into when you select text and gets pasted with middle mouse, and the 'normal' one. I think you can change this behaviour though.
I don't pay much attention to what Ubuntu does (I think that they're throwing out their Unity desktop in favour of GNOME now), but maybe things have improved since 14.04 was released 3 years ago.