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What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys, I'm just an ordinary dev looking for something to work on. While messing around with my hobby projects, I couldn't help but notice that under the surface, there are a lot of places that the libre desktop can be improved. I'd like to take on your suggestions on what I should seriously consider working on and helping out with.

Thanks for any comments and suggestions.

(For those wondering, I'm still working on my other stuff.)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ease of making a RAID array!

I wanted to set up two used hard drives in RAID 1, and the only way to do that was through obscure command line stuff. I tried following a tutorial but I would always divert from it somehow. So I turned to ChatGPT, and it seemed to set it up fine, but then when I tried to reboot, I couldn't enter a GUI, even though the OS booted from a separate SSD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In NAS related software there's plenty of nice UIs to make a raid array. I'm guessing not many people bothered making it for "normal" OSes since the subset of people who want raid on a desktop, and people who aren't happy digging through the command line is pretty low.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The thing is that I'm not primarily running the computer as a NAS. It's a used computer with a desktop OS and with two used 2TB HDDs, so I want the redundancy.