| Long Time Ubuntu user feels your pain - I've solved most of the pain by using KDE (kubuntu backports ppa on 16.04) or switching to Arch with KDE. Subjective List - only a few good solutions: 1. screen can be used for serial stuff - also allows logging everything to file and copy&paste - you add yourself to a group that uses that device if you don't want to be root. 2. Yup. It's a pain point. There is stuff like Play on Linux that eases some WINE pain points. 3. There is a Linux version: https://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html 4. Blame Gnome/Ubuntu. KDE is better in that regard (I know no the answer you want to hear) 5. Depending on the ISO dd is good enough. geteltorito is your friend: https://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/ftp/noarch/getelto... - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linu... 6. Yes. NetworkManager is a pain point. Plasma NM (KDE) works fine for me. There is nmcli that you can use via command line. It's not totally straight forward but should be good enough for automation. 7. This is apport - you can disable it - another major Ubuntu pain point. http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-disable-stop-uninstall-apport-... 8. Yes. Remmina crashes for me a lot of times, I'm not using VNC that often but it's kind of pain in the ass. You could try using plain rdesktop and reading up on details - I've switchted NX where it is possible but it's also not perfect. 9. Only ever burned with k3b and never got problems. 10. Lightdm lockscreen sucks :( - sddm (again KDE) works far more reliable for me. 12. kwin/KDE gives you all the options. There might be some hidden GNOME or Ubuntu Tweak tool settings but I stopped bothering. Battery life: powertop + tlp and it's now better than windows for me (on an Ivy Bridge i5 HP Notebook, should work similiar good on a Dell with Intel) |