If anything, increased stability for general-purpose usage would be very nice. Increased hardware support, especially drivers for some wi-fi cards need a lot of work.
I really love Linux desktops, but they have too many stability issues/crashes to completely switch from Windows to Ubuntu or any other linux distribution.
I shy away from using my ubuntu laptop (dell xps developer edition, you know, the one you'd expect to be doing this really well) because
a) More often than not when starting up it gives me a "something went wrong, do you want to report it dialogue"? I've stopped bother to report it or look at what's happening because it happens so often, but I think it's X crashing at some point.
b) WiFi frequently fails to connect after hibernation, requiring a reboot.
c) There's also been some worrying threads on HN about lack of support for strong kernel power management on recent intel generations.
I'll concur with the others on wifi network support.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Improved wifi network support
- DESCRIPTION: Most of the time I don't have an issue, but occasionally (ok once a month at the venue that hosts our Java developer group) I have network issues that I never had when this laptop was running windows (7 or 10). Basically at this one location I can't stay hooked up to the network for more than 5 minutes without a disconnect, none of the windows/mac users around me have an issue.
I've been using Ubuntu as my main OS for a decade now, and I agree. Especially the UI crashes much more often than I'd like, and I always get a "there has been an error" error message at startup. Please make things more stable.
I really love Linux desktops, but they have too many stability issues/crashes to completely switch from Windows to Ubuntu or any other linux distribution.