Comment on What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux?
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
jasory@programming.dev 10 months ago
I actually have the same trackpad problem on a Windows 10 2-in-1. Seems it’s not unique to Linux.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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@programming.dev 10 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.