Hi, I contributed to the help manual and realized that you might be able to use some of that info here (for the best Linux os in the world!).
I switched to Linux about 2 years ago. It is my main os now. When first learning Linux, backup, documentation, privacy and security were my main concerns. There wasn’t any sign of distros being concerned about making a restore point or wiping private data.
These are the things I would have liked to have seen then and now:
corbin,
I switched to Linux about 2 years ago. It is my main os now. When first learning Linux, backup, documentation, privacy and security were my main concerns. There wasn’t any sign of distros being concerned about making a restore point or wiping private data.
These are the things I would have liked to have seen then and now:
- “making the desktop interface my own” should include an easy way to change panel icons. I have to reopen the icon manager for each panel icon that I change. I don’t see any of the ubuntu based os’s making this customization take less time. A quicker way of doing this and other look changes would be appreciated by many.
- A software center in “lite software”: Synaptic p.a. is difficult for a newbie to use. They don’t need to see all the system packages mixed in with consumer type software. I use gnome-software it takes some time to load, but I see no drain on my Pentium 2.4 with 2gb ram. Lubuntu is in the repository also and would probably be faster then Ubuntu s.c.
- “lite software”: describe each of the app download links listed in the app with a mouse over and provide wiki page links. As a newbie I’d also like to see these added too it: bleachbit, xfce notes or noblenotes, clamav, veracrypt, a password manager, a vpn, mintstick to format my flash drives (nothing else seems to work for this task).
- A simple grub editor with root privileges, that would: change the grub time out from 10 sec to 30 sec; take a screenshot of a specified image to be installed as a grub menu background; menu name changer
- A sandbox for downloaded files so that clamav can scan any suspicious ones before moving them to another location (like puppy605 has).
- A pop-out notification that tells you when you wallpaper slideshow has changed images. This might appeal to people who have labored to find inspirational images, but don’t get to experience them, every 5 min, because a browser window is covering most of the screen. The minimize all open windows button on the task bar could allow a quick look!
- Chromium: installing chromium seems to include installing pepperflash. If this is true it would make It harder for a new user to update pepperflash, using the terminal. Having a self updating flash addon installed by default for this browser seems like a good idea. Also chromium seems to be a faster browser than Firefox (even with browsec vpn & comodo cloud antivirus running in both). Having a ready to use version in “lite software” is good for those with smaller computer resources.
- Bleachbit added to “lite software”: Privacy and security seemed to be lacking when I first came over to Linux. Bleachbit looks like the best choice right now (I hear it is what was used on Hilary’s emails). Bleachbit documentation is hard to find, but it is the only privacy solution close to ccleaner for windows. The only thing that messed up my computer once was auto-remove, but LL has that in the tweak app.
- Clean temporary memory: lite tweaks has the feature, One time it seemed that it didn’t work, but bleachbit did. Are they each doing a different function?
- An easier way to reducing the swap file from 60 to 5 on smaller computers;
corbin,