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

[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.