Linux

NixOS

I love NixOS, but the documentation is terrible. Better documentation would go a long way to making it a more user-friendly platform.

I wish Gentoo would make important information like unmasking packages more easily accessible, like directly into the handbook itself so that I don't have to search how to do it every time I need to unmask a package (I always forget how to).

I also wish alpine Linux had an option to use glibc instead of musl

Nothing. Slackware is perfect and complete.

I'd love yearly Debian releases instead of just every 2 years.

Debian and Arch, for me, tie as my favorite and honestly can't say I would want to change anything as I need to use the technology more before I can critique it like that.

NixOS

Mostly perfect in my opinion but it'd be nice if when they renamed options they didn't deprecate the old option names so old configs still worked

Fedora

• not made in the US so their images can ship nonfree drivers and codecs
• thus they had ARM images for Atomic variants!
• flathub instead of fedora flatpaks
• KDE first instead of GNOME (GNOME is okay and very nice in many parts, but absurdly lacking in others)

I like the rest. It would be cool if they could adopt musl like Alpine, glibc is a mess and you basically need to compile every software against musl manually to use it on Fedora.

Apart from that, best Distro ever.

LinuxMint

• Stop crashing when I log in after standby
• Weird graphical glitches
• The WiFi manager. Trying to connect to work WiFi but I then have to fill in info on certificates, protocols and what not. Stuff I don't understand, don't experience on Mac/windows and don't want to know about.
• At least try to make an interesting package manager/store. How about some screenshots and icons?

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.

Debian, include /sbin and /usr/sbin in PATH by default.

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.

Just in general: More sane defaults, less RTFM. Sure, you can configure everything, but MUST you? A lot of opensource developers seem to believe that configurability is a get-out-of-jail-free card for having to provide a good user experience out of the box.

Fedora's bootloader sucks, I want to use SDBoot but it's set up so weirdly that installing it would break the install.