Linux

Every distro.

Samba file shares should use regular user credentials and not have separate samba usernames and passwords.

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.

(Arch, btw)

Technical: Better, easier to use APIs for pacman. The last time I tried to do alpm stuff, it wasn't fun.

Social: Less rtfm. The manual is good, but it's not cool when people are super elitist (especially towards newbies).

Bring back Linux Mint KDE

For Alpine Linux:

• support a different process supervisor
  • dinit, or
  • s6 with some high level sugar
• add something like the AUR

For Arch Linux:

• support a different process supervisor
  • dinit, or
  • s6 with some high level sugar
• don't use Bash anywhere
  • port down to POSIX, and
  • port up to Zsh
  • port minimal launchers to execline
• replace PKGBUILD format, maybe with
  • nearly identical but Zsh
  • NestedText containing Zsh snippets
    • use this to render Zsh based on templates
      • my favorite template engine: wheezy.template
• build packages with more optimizations, like the CachyOS repos
• include or endorse something like aconfmgr
• port conf files to NestedText

A robust way to make an install script on arch Linux.

more packages; open suse tumbleweed

I still don't know the technical details between zram and zswap but I feel like fedora should switch to zswap and support hibernation out the box

I’d like a vanilla, stable, rolling release. Fedora is close but I’d like a “clean slate” option where you have the desktop environment, package manager, and expected hardware functionality like sound, Bluetooth, etc. But then as few extras as possible so I can choose my own adventure.

And by stable rolling release, I just mean that most rolling release options are for beta testing. I totally get the reasons for that but while we’re wishing for things, I’d like a rolling release that was almost as conservative as an LTS release. I doubt that’s realistic but a feller can dream.

I would like Debian and the fsf to come to some kind of agreement so Debian can ship the emacs documentation.

Can we get a free software only version of every distro? That's what I want.

Debian (testing branch): Add normal firefox to the repo. Firefox ESR is total bullshit that makes zero sense to use. I always install it either as flatpak or from the unstable repos using apt-pinning (which works great though!)

Bring back the old xpenguins and xsnow packages in Debian.

I would make Debian and Arch be deterministic like NixOS, but with a different language and less overhead. I really like the principle but the implementation is subpar.

For me Fedora only needs to speed up the dnf and update the installer.

Unpopular take: A more complex installer that lets me choose what I want to use:

• what de?
• what theme of de?
• what package manager?
• all the video codecs or minimal?
• what office programs?
• graphics card? Nvidia or AMD?
• developer pack? (Python, java, some other stuff, vscode/codium)
• graphics suite (Krita, incscape, gimp)
• KDE connect, syncthing?
• Firefox or chromium?
• cloud connections? (OneDrive, Google drive, nextcloud?)

I don't know what else could be interesting, but I think that would take away the annoying "what distro to I want" and would make Linux more like "I like gnome, everything installed, I'm a developer" or "KDE plasma, graphics and office, the rest inwant to install myself"

Maybe I totally don't understand what distros are, but isn't all the same, just some differen configurations?

I think the biggest flaw in Arch is the “keyring” package that can go out of date between updates. EndeavourOS makes it worse since it has two of them.

EndeavourOS ships eos-update that somewhat fixes this and can be used in place of pacman or yay. It always updates the keyring first. How many people use that utility though ( or even know it exists ).

Pacman and yay should “just work”.

I would love to see an ostree-based (immutable) Debian for both stable and unstable.

Aside from that, my nitpicks aren't distro-oriented.

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

I'd just want more package maintainers for Arch, some people maintaining 1000+ packages is crazy and would take a load off of them.