Linux and the distributions. When I mixed-up both in German newsgroups I got shot at and burned on the stake.

LQ is a friendly place, in deed.

Comprehensive Online Documentation

Implicitly “complete” documentation.

• Not like the man-page to regex(7).
• Courageously split up into palatable pieces (not like the man-page to bash).
  (I know well that man cannot be responsible for all mischief. It is an example.)
• Courageously repeating facts in every context that they may influence.
• Targeting one readership at a time and making the fact public, in advance.

Impact

Imagine a list of expressions, felt or understood differently, in different cultures, political contexts or under varying professional constraints. Your reactions vary from calls to “trial for the terrorist” to “Give him the Nobel price for peace.”

• Fill in
• whatever
• You deem
• appropriate (rather: inappropriate)

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To those who want their distro to stay the same as they had it set up on their computers, use a distro that lets you remaster it, like AntiX or MX Linux, then you can (re)install it just as it was when you had it set up how you liked it.

Mint now has TimeShift installed by default. You have to configure it to tell it what, when and where to make snapshots, but that only takes a moment.

I think there are far too many users of linux that want/expect it to work like another OS, and complain when it doesn't.

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Then use openSUSE with btrfs (Leap or tumbleweed) and your wish is granted the same instant .

Or DragonFly BSD with HAMMER.

For me: most missing is a thorough clean-up of error messages. Particularly obvious to everybody who is watching messages during boot (alternatively issue a "journalctl -xb" in a console). Not only do these messages come in multiples without noting why (six times "xyz not found, aborting" -- why six times?), often they make no sense like systemd's messages during start-up of services, somthing like "the result of the procedure was "RESULT"" ... really, now ... please, I want to understand what is happening.

Some programs do the same -- sigh.

For me, the OS is sound but drivers can sometimes be an issue. Manufacturers issue.

UEFI can still be a pain to turn off or control. This limits the hardware that can be (easily) converted to Linux.

Likewise applications. Garmin, printer software, OCR to text applications (currently V.Poor), Speech to text applications.
Again, a manufacturers issue.

Basically, I'm a pretty happy bunny currently.

I have been an HP-UX (HP's version of Unix) admin for a long time so I am coming to Linux from that perspective.

One really cool command that HP-UX has that Linux doesn't is called ioscan. (Input/Ouput devices scan). It shows you every device connected to the system. Hard drives, Fiber Channel cards, lan cards, everything and all in one shot with their hardware paths. You can fine tune it by selecting a specific component like CPUs or disk or you can view all of it.

Linux does not have a command that accomplishes that. Instead you have a thousand other commands that you have to run to come up with an integrated picture.

Solaris does not have it either so it's a thing fairly unique to HP.

I wish that any of the GNU/Linux distributions could play commercial Blu-ray discs directly from an internal or external Blu-ray/DVD/CD drive.

My wife and I currently use Antergos, GeckoLinux [openSUSE] Tumbleweed, and MX Linux on our various computers and of course none of these operating systems can play commercial Blu-ray discs. In addition, no other GNU/Linux OS that we have tried (and we have tried over a dozen distros) can play them.

By using MakeMKV it is possible to create Matroska Video files which can be played on our computers but this is an extra step which, in my opinion, should not be necessary.

For my particular purposes, Linux have almost everything I need.
But regarding scientific researches, there is a lack of support for scientific instruments available commercially, both from the suppliers and from the community.
There are also some proprietary software that do not have an equivalent free software - regarding their functionalities in most cases - or a port to Linux.

Please, don't blame me for talking about proprietary software. I'd rather have proprietary software running on Linux and adding more users to this OS, than seeing proprietary OSs plastering scientific progress. It is not the ideal solution, but it would be better than it is.

This is a patents issue, encription of disks, the owners of the copyrighted material don't want it used without you paying them!

(This used to be the case with DVD movies at one time too.)

A good, professional-grade, video editing facility. KDEnlive is a good start, but the community needs something more sophisticated, equivalent in capability to Adobe's Premiere Pro, which has an improved interface and supports a wider range of AV formats & codecs. Black Magic Design's "Resolve" is great, but is proprietary and needs a good quality GPU to work.

A Linux training program where the programmers that design it work with beginners to design it. I am currently going through edX.org and even that program is flawed. I have been through numerous classes in the past by Nissan, Mack, and numerous Industrial Automation companies and they all have certain things in common. I would personally like to work with them if needed. Resources and how to use them should be first. That's the hardest thing about starting out with zero programming experience, in the beginning.

Better support for optical media such as multi layer DVD and Blueray. A lot of us still use it for data archiving.