Because I spent too long on the lottery machine yesterday...

[sally_maria]

One of the big advantages of open source is that if you don't like something you can fix it, or pay someone to fix it for you. So, if you'd won the Euro lottery (£117 million), what little "quirks" of your favourite distro or software would you pay someone to fix?

What projects would you donate to?

Comments

[dragonwolf]

You may want to check out MyPaint. It's supposed to be more tablet-friendly and geared toward digital painting, and from what I've seen, it's pretty mature.

I second the GIMP thing. I use it all the time and would love to see layer folders on it and just general better Photoshop compatibility (so I don't have to drop a grand for Photoshop and fight with it in Wine just to slice up some images sent by a graphic designer).

Also, seconded the hardware driver support. Specifically, I'd like to see better support for newer graphics cards (I've never had issue with peripherals), so the Linux gamer community can actually enjoy the mainstream games and potentially grow enough to warrant dedicated support from the mainstream game companies.

I'd also support LibreOffice, so there's a good, compatible alternative to MS Office.

[ratcreature]

I've tried MyPaint, but it did not work well for me. It does have more in the way of brushes and such, but it lacks all other advantages of digital painting, like you can't actually select areas, mask things or anything like that.

Over the years I've had trouble with printers, tablets, network cards, wireless cards, sound, graphics cards, mice (I still remember back with my first linux forays trying to get a scroll wheel to work), touchpads, keyboards (that on laptops only though with the special keys not working),....

[dragonwolf]

What distro(s) do you use?

[ratcreature]

For a long time I've used SuSe (up to its version 9.2 or so), but when they switched focus I switched to Ubuntu. So I don't use purist versions or avoid non-free drivers or anything like that, and yet it almost always takes fiddling. Like the laptop I had before my current one, I never got power management to work, and it really sucks to have a laptop that has no working battery monitor.