On my phone. I would love to be able to run a Linux system or at least a de-googled android. But some apps I need access to don't seem to be working without Google services and stuff like that si I'm stuck using a stock Google (Pixel) android.

Beside that, everything is and has been working smoothly on my computers since I switched from Apple to Linux Mint, 5 or 6 years ago. My only regret is to not have switched way earlier.

I do miss Spotlight. All the alternatives I have tested fall short one way or the other but giving up on Spotlight is not that bad of a deal considering all what Free Software, GNU and Linux have offered me in exchange. I would not want to switch back.

As much as if saddens me to write it: the enterprise bullshit.

I'm not allowed to use Linux at work because it's more complicated than the out of the box experience of MacOS and windows in terms of remote management, encryption enforcement, company certificates and all this useless bullshit.

Devs not working together to make Wayland universally supported and bug free ASAP or fixing X11 ASAP. With Microslop Windoze being as horrible as it is we cannot permit ourselves to fight these silly internal battles; as long as someone is not bullying, raping, killing, or, you know, peddling crypto and cheering ICE, then give each other some slack.

As for daily usage I have no gripes. Linux works excellently. If I still gamed as much as I did back in the day then these shitty kernel anti-cheats would bother me,* now I simply don't touch them.

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*Not a Linux problem but an anti-cheat engineering skill issue. Looking at you EA; RIP Battlefield 1.

Debian in its GUI (at least KDE, which I'm using at the moment) demanding the root password to install the updates it's blinking at me about in the tray all the time. In this context, demanding a password at all is rather silly (Windows doesn't require your password to install updates in a single user environment, and it doesn't even pop up a UAC prompt) and this is going to be yet another one of those things that prior Windows users will moan about, declaring that "Linux is complicated and hard" and drive them back to the comfort of the devil they know when they feel like their own computer is actively trying to stymie them at seemingly every turn.

My user account is a sudoer so there is absolutely no technical reason my own password shouldn't work. And, in fact, if I run updates via apt in a terminal it does. But allowing updates to install from the desktop environment, something ostensibly ought to be a routine userspace kind of operation, requires everyone using the system who might want to do this to know the system-wide root password. This is a monumentally stupid idea.

I am well aware there are myriad ways around this but they all involve hand-editing config files and come with stern warnings about "this may break your system so proceed 'carefully,'" as if anyone who is not already an experienced Linux nerd will know just what the hell "proceeding carefully" is supposed to look like.

The inevitable XKCD comic succinctly sums this up:

The UNIX permissions and administration model may have made great sense on glass teletypes in the '70s and when nobody knew any better, but it's certainly long outmoded now. It's going to make a lot of people very angry to read this, but that's actually one of the few things that Windows does much better, at least starting from NT onwards.

I miss a task manager-like shortcut to come out to the desktop and easily kill processes freezing the PC.

For me it's that 'can make it work' != 'want to spend hours researching to make it work'

If you have a well supported use case Linux is great, if you need to do some things that rely on proprietary drivers, old software, etc it's a pain

I like the ux in some common windows utilities a lot more than I like their Linux alternatives. I prefer nano zip over the default app that came with my distro.

Default video settings caused going to console to be use a comically oversized font for my large monitor. I remembered how to change fonts sort of, but couldn't for the life of me remember how to change the resolution. Internet searches had results of mixed quality. Pretty difficult to distinguish instructions for the old boot loader versus the current one. Set the res finally, but it didn't work. One of the commands I tried did seem to work, but then it caused the advanced graphics to disappear and video transcode suffered. Finally I found the answer I should have used all along: sudo dpkg reconfigure (some package I can't remember now)

And everything is like that. You want to do something, you better get educated. It's great for hobbyists, but I find as I get older I just want it to look right and do the thing, so I choose windows from the grub menu and forget I even have it for weeks.

It's great when everything is supported and works and you like the application and you'd spent sixteen hours theming your desktop and and and .. but ain't nobody got time fo dat

Bluetooth.

Its always been an issue and it remains an issue.

Printing.

Windows drivers are so fancy, with previews and a billion options, while Linux gets a randomly ordered list of raw options in a drop-down menu and that's it

Basically no support for CAD software. I started out on FreeCAD back in 2016 then switched to Fusion360 a few years later. I gave FreeCAD another go a little after it hit 1.0 but it still feels so clunky in comparison.

Even though I share most of my designs, I'm not interested in the free version of OnShape where there isn't a choice in the matter.

I'm no professional so I could probably make due with FreeCAD but I'll be keeping my dual boot since I have the option.

Everything is working in my daily use. But there are still little things that pop up less regularly, mostly around hardware.

I've got a USB SSD that I can't use, because I need to "unlock" it in a windows device first. I can't even re-partition it in linux.

I can't update the firmware on my monitor because it can't simply be done with a USB stick and on screen menus, but actually requires a windows only application.

And when I first started daily driving linux, my Nvidia GPU was a regular source of frustration, but it's resolved now

Every one of these problems are because of manufacturers artificially locking hardware down, but they're still problems. One can only hope that a growing linux using consumer base will shift their priorities

Unattended remote access under Wayland. I have multiple computers some headless and some with displays and I often like to remote into those from my other machines on my lan. With Xorg I used VNC. But with Wayland I have yet to find a reliable way to remote control a Wayland session without also sitting in front of the machine I’m trying to remote into.

Bluetooth is very buggy, but it's not too much of a deal breaker.

It doesn't make me coffee right before I wake up

Linux phones when? I personally don't have any issues but one thing that would be nice is how to make Linux dumber and idiot proof for the average consumer

There are a lot of things that bother me and could be improved:

Lacking Hardware support for Fingerprint readers: in my Lenovo Yoga 370 i could not (for gods sake) get the Fingerprint reader to work. But I gave up trying a couple years ago. So it might be working now but i don't know. I know its not the OS fault because it is just missing key Materials and driver support from the manufacturer. But in the end I don't care whose fault it is. It does not work, and that bothers me.

Not easy to use TPM for LUKS: why doesn't the installer of any distribution use the TPM module for storing the decryption key for LUKS. Or at least make it an option. They are made for that! TPM is not your enemy. Use them to help you! Better to use TPM (with exported strong recovery key) instead of having no encryption at all or a weak password.

Proper Backup and rollback Baker info the distro: why was only Opensuse able to have an integrated solution for backup and rollback of OS changes and updates? MacOS has this since years (maybe decades...)

No parental control features: Plesse give me things like settings usage time limits and APP access limitation for specific user accounts. I know I can somehow do this via Polkit. But this is not user friendly and too complicated for typical use cases. I am very happy that GNOME is currently working in a solution for this in GNOME 50 (Propably)

This has been driving me nuts and if anyone can shed any light on it I will be eternally grateful.

I am trying to install SketchUp Pro 2021. According to WineHQ it has a gold rating and two testers claim to have installed it without issue, but following their instructions doesn't help.

I am running the latest Mint with Wine 11.0. I've created a 64bit prefix running as Windows 8.1, installed .NET 4.8, had to manually install vcrun2017 because something has changed and the checksum fails in Winetricks. I try to install SketchUp and get Invalid Handle errors mainly to do with a KB2999286 check (Universal C Runtime update).

So I download the KB2999286 msu and tell Winetricks to run it, but it says there's no associated program. Maybe I need the Windows Update API? So I download that, which actually appears to be WinXP SP3 and fails to install. I'm just about ready to give up on this whole experiment. Is there something I'm clearly missing? Is the C Runtime Update hidden in a component I haven't installed?

My personal top 3:

Video Editing - Kdenlive isn't bad in and by itself but it seems really slow to work with, and getting any kind of smooth preview seems impossible even with proxy clips ... the other day I bought a GoPro 3D camera, and I can cut, preview, rotate, reframe and encode with their Android app on my potato phone from 2021, and it feels snappy (I was surprised, really). Yet on my i7 laptop with Kdenlive, much simpler tasks feel much more sluggish on average ...

CAD - I use OpenSCAD for 3D modeling and I love it, but sometimes a GUI-Based CAD program would be nice. I'm sure FreeCAD is powerful but the UI/UX aspect makes it hard to unlock that power. I'm a bit conflicted about it because I really don't want to play down the efforts of the FreeCAD dev team, and it seems like everyone and their mothers talk badly about their UI/UX. But on the other hand I tried a couple times and got really frustrated, and I'm usually not one to shy away from steeper learning curves. Supposedly you can do CAD in Blender but I never really figured that out.

Laser cutting - While most slicers for 3D printers work on Linux, Lasercutting seems a different story. You can still use older versions of Lightburn but it's not FLOSS and it seems strange to pay for a license if the support for your OS has been discontinued 2 versions ago (or one, not sure right now). I want to give Rayforge (https://rayforge.org/) a try soon but until then it's LaserGRBL or the program that came with my laser cutter on a virtual machine.

Honorable mention: A linux phone would be nice.

Trouble alt+tabbing out of games in mint + cinnamon from fullscreen windowed and fullscreen. I can switch to other open windows easily, but what I can't do is click my sound manager shortcut in the taskbar to change audio devices, etc. So I have to open up the sound management application to make the changes. The desired behavior is to alt tab back to the desktop environment where the application being switched to is.

Trouble with specific windows only appliations that I can't get to work in wine/bottles. One I need to update my car's infotainment system and it's a huge pain in the ass. Trouble with weird .dll and font issues that are seemingly unresolvable, even once placing the relevant dlls and fonts in the right folders. Not linux's fault, just shitty software design. But still difficult.

All my games work like shit :(

And it's kindof my fault because my hardware is outdated but while on Windows Hogwarts Legacy worked, in pain but worked, and Fallout 76 was fully stable and smooth.

On linux (Nobara), Hogwarts CTD's on startup (shaders or something fails) and I had to lower setting in fallout to get it stable enough to play.

Bit I just began my adventure with linux as main OS so there's still a lot to learn. One of stabilising things for Fallout was, for example, forcing dx12. Without it it froze my whole os sometimes. :(

Oh and KDEConnect reports it crashed for some reason if it cannot immediately connect to my phone. Which was funny until notification spam.

Games with anti-cheat don’t work.

Secureboot doesn’t like GRUB.

Solidworks doesn’t run natively on linux, neither does my Sketchup Pro program.

SteamVR doesn’t run well on linux

What does work that I use regularly? My older DVD drives work fine, ripping my music and dvd/blu-rays works well and seamlessly with multiple instances of the programs running simultaneously. The typical FOSS stuff I use is a no-brainer, from Gimp to Blender to Libreoffice.

But for the stuff I work with most and the games I play most often? It just doesn’t work well or at all.

When my PC goes into sleep or hibernate, my keyboard won't work after it wakes up. I have to unplug and reconnect my keyboard every... single... time...

Except for this issue, my PC works perfectly fine and better than Windows in nearly every way.

Multi monitor still has some quirks from time to time. Don't take me wrong, it's already much better than just 2-3 years ago even, but...still has quirks. Specially with different DPI. Sometimes apps get very...wonky when moved from a monitor with a normal 100% scaling to one where it has 150% scaling or so. And on return, it's already messed up. Some start already in the wrong scaling with super tiny text. Or text double the size. Let's just say, sometimes scaling gets tricky.

There's also still a lot of games that don't like being moved to another monitor, and don't even give an option for it. Even when pushed to the non-main monitor by OS key combo (meta-shift-left, for example), they tend to rearrange themselves again back to the main monitor when changing from title screen to in-game screen, and things like that. So...still slightly wonky. Light years ahead of where we were just 3 years ago...but still wonky sometimes.

Theres only 2 times I have headaches due to being on linux.

1. When I'm streaming, the streaming service I use (typically Amazon) refuses to stream at anything higher than like 320p, despite me enabling the DRM and all that stuff, cause they think if you're on linux you're the l33t h4x0rz out to steal their garbage files... Which isnt linuxes fault in the least.

2. When I'm playin a game thats not easily moddable (like Cyberpunk) (Compared to easily moddable games, like Bethesda titles, or Stardew, Or Minecraft)that requires running tons of extra executables and stuff. its just a pain in the ass to get shit working, to the point I often give up half way through.

other than that, Linux really hasnt been a barrier to my daily life in any way. Granted, I kind of cultivated myself a proper linux enviroment before I even made the switch, by using AMD gear, and buying linux friendly web cams/printers/blue tooth dongles/etc etc.

Is this feedback for devs?

My 144hz monitor randomly runs at 60hz with no way of changing it apart from restarting several times.

I have a TV connected in addition to my monitor (for lazy gaming or watching series), but this causes various small but annoying problems. I can't unlock my PC without moving the mouse over to my monitor, which invariably spawns on the TV, and I have to guess how to move it over (left/right alignment is also inconsistent). It also turns the mouse pointer massive on the monitor, presumably because the TV has a higher resolution. Despite marking the monitor as the main display, more than half of my applications launch on the TV. Except the ones I actually want there, of course. If my tv is off before booting is complete, and I turn it on later, my background disappears, and sound is routed to the terrible built-in monitor speakers instead of either the tv audio I use while it's on, or the actually good headphones I use when it's not.

At some point my kernel randomly broke because the driver of my WiFi adapter was somehow incompatible. It was a massive pain to figure out the problem and fix it.

As a causal user these are definitely points that came out worse than the competition functionality-wise, and since most of the general public will not opt for a lesser experience for the sake of idealism, this type of issue probably prevents other people who just want to use their PCs from switching.

Edit: it was also a massive pain to set up a Korean keyboard layout, in Windows you just select it and you're done. In Ubuntu, you do the same and nothing changes. I don't even remember what it was that actually fixed it, but I tried a lot of guides that didn't work.

I can't figure out how to run game mods that are arbitrary .exe programs that are meant to hook into a running game. Specifically, otis_inf camera tools with, for example, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. I've tried protontricks but its so damn complicated and poorly documented I don't really know how.

My biggest problem with Linux is security. I want a relatively idiot proof setup like in Microsoft and Apple products. I do not to have to minutely setup the firewall or have to go into the terminal to run a virus scan.

Other than that I am not too demanding of my system I nearly never have a problem although recently the game A Hat in Time makes my pc kernal panic.

Games not capturing the mouse in bordeless window. Helldivers 2 is super frustrating to play On Fedora 42

Power management could still be a lot better for Intel laptops (though admittedly over the past decade it's come a VERY long way). On my Chromebook running Ubuntu the powersave governor noticably stutters as it decides whether to boost the clocks, but all the other governors significantly hurt battery life. Somehow Windows managed to solve this battery problem with all its bloat, and Chromeos also has while also ultimately running Linux under the hood. Laptops could really benefit from the same level of driver maturity as desktop platforms.

I'd also point out touchpad gesture support as a secondary point which is lacking. I love that pixel perfect scrolling and gestures are integrated into many desktop environments now, but they lack configuration for sensitivity and in some cases leave it to the applications themselves to control. Scrolling in Chrome is way too fast and Firefox way too slow for my trackpad, but unlike the cursor speed/acceleration, there is no setting to adjust the sensitivity of pixel perfect scrolling in supported applications.

I need Nvidia graphic drivers for a card Nvidia just up and decided they didn't want to support. I ran updates and after rebooting just had no compositor until I moved to another driver set. Real shitty move, Nvidia. 1080 strix founders overclock. Now Vulcan is hit or miss.

Backing up my BTRFS file system. I'm on day two of reading the docs, and I still feel like I have tenuous grasp of the ins and outs. To be clear I've used ext4 and timeshift for years with absolutely no problem at all. I'm just looking to make generic backups of my system once a month(most the time I do it manually), and I feel BTRFS is overkill for what I need. I also feel like I'm not far away from it "clicking". Guess we'll see, I still don't ever see myself leaving Linux, but I may switch back to ext4.

My current no. 1 pain point is Remote Desktop on KDE Plasma Wayland.
The only functional one is Sunshine and Moonlight, and while they're great, they're gaming focused. Trying to do productivity work from my phone is just not feasible, not to say the bandwidth usage if I'm on mobile data.

Their RDP server is supposedly working already but I never managed to get anything more than a black screen on the clients.

As a daily driver for "normies", Linux is fine. Browser, email client, office apps, all good. I can use Prusa Slicer and Blender, which covers all my 3D printing needs.

There is no real image editor anywhere close to Photoshop, and no, GiMP isn't it. I have to use Affinity via wine. It works but I'd prefer a native solution. I need ML object recognition, layers with layer effects (stroke outline, drop shadow), easy text Input and manipulation (font size, height, width etc). Affinity can do it. Photoshop does it better, but I am no longer willing to pay Adobe. Screw subscription software.

For my RAW images, I am using Rawtherapee which I am much more comfortable with than with Darktable.

Audio is a mess. To have low latency in my DAW (Reaper Linux Version), I have to launch it via the command line using pw-jack reaper, otherwise it won't recognize the audio device or uses ALSA or Pulseaudio both of which have way more latency than JACK. I have bought a couple of VST plugins on Windows, some work via yabridge and again wine, some work in part but have no UI. others don't work at all and I am out of ideas.

For video editing, I use Davinci Resolve Studio (which I paid for), but the experience on Linux lacks behind Windows and it doesn't support the same codecs (no AAC audio, making a lot of my archive footage useless unless I transcode everything).

My Framework 13 (AMD 7040) laptop has a fingerprint scanner. No dice getting it to work (I'm running CachyOS). Davinci Resolve refuses to work on the AMD integrated GPU (experience above is from desktop PC with Nvidia GPU).

And the session saving feature in KDE Plasma on CachyOS is inconsistent. I set it to only save a session when actively telling to do so, I don't do it and it still opens up 5 apps I didn't even have open last time.

Steam doesn't want to autostart minimized, it goes front and center on boot. Annoying.

Those are my current gripes as a Linux user. Otherwise, all peachy.

Edit: well not exactly. My desktop PC has a Gigabyte motherboard and in order to recognize the fans attached to it I had to grab an I87 community made driver. Temp sensors etc are also reporting less to Linux than to Windows (if you compare what you can read out in HWinfo to GNOME Vitals or the like, it's laughably little).

I have used Parsec for remote desktop. They have a Linux client but it doesn't support hosting. Which sucks. Will look for another remote desktop solution.

I have a DJI drone. Haven't yet tried running DJI Assistant to do firmware updates etc. Might go well might be horrible. Anyone with experience here?

I use Backblaze on my Windows install for off site backup purposes. They don't have a Linux client for the consumer tier and I don't want to pay enterprise grade money as a consumer. Maybe via wine? Need to find out.

Overall the main problem with Linux is that almost nothing outside of a very small set of use cases works without hours, day, weeks of tinkering. Which would be fine for one or two things, but it's just spoo much.

I use a TV as my monitor which only has HDMI inputs in combination with an AMD card. No HDMI 2.1 thanks to the HDMI Forum. Fuck the HDMI Forum.

Audio output over HDMI breaks when the PC goes to sleep. Need to shut the PC down to make it work again. Restarting it doesnt solve the issue.

Here and there some websites break slightly more often on Linux compared to Windows. Both with Firefox.

VR already was a troubleshooting sinkhole on Windows. On Linux its a bit worse. BUT it gets better every month and i'm amazed how well it already works tbh.

KDE doesnt let me resize the PIP window of Firefox on all of its sides. I heavily use this feature on a daily basis. I got used to it. But it was paaaaaiiiin the first few weeks.

Sometimes something breaks and CachyOS just doesnt want to shut down and i need to get the pillow to physically kill the PC.

I atleast had more hard system crashes than on Windows. Sometimes i feel like just the RAM fills up and in 70% of times only a reset helps. On the other hand killing rogue programs which dont want to hand me back the desktop like on windows arent an issue at all anymore.

Button mappings on my g27 racing wheel are out of order with seemingly no fix. Its a really minor issue. But still...

The documentation for certain things is still just utter ass. Sometimes i read through the most technically complex official docs ever for an hour without finding my answer. Then give up and ask in forum/chat/discord and its like: oh yeah just type "yorking" and if your done "exit". Which wasnt mentioned once anywhere else.

Anything else was just getting used to a new OS and learning new things. Which can be painful but isnt a Linux issue.

Overall super happy. Its a pretty big post but i could write a book series with my Windows issues...

I want Autokey back. It doesn't work in Wayland and I haven't really found a solution that does that feels worth the bother.

I've been using linux since ubuntu 5.04 so I dont need converting, but from business perspective we would need Office M365 desktop apps and MDM support. Also autodesk products. Personally I use M365 in browser, but feature parity is not up to 100%.

I think when all win32 apps work, there will no longer be any reason for windows.

Just slap a win7/win10 classic gui over it with some animations and we're going finally decimate all the other options for good.

Energy management is the part that still complicates things most for me. Rfkill not being managed correctly. Machines that suspend but don't hibernate, or that hibernate but don't suspend. Laptops that de-suspend during transport. Batteries that overdrain during suspend. Bluetooth. And most annoying of all, NVidia (insert Torvalds iconic scene).

T480s fingerprint reader has been inconsistent trying to log in when waking from sleep. It was working for months after I followed the instructions in the archwiki. I'll eventually have to dig into the logs to see why it only works sometimes.

Also I wish KDE night light integrated monitor brightness.

I wouldn’t call myself an “avid” user but I have been using it for about 6 years.

My pain points would be the current driver support on new laptops. Nothing they can do but it’s always been a pain in the ass to encounter some broken ACPI kernel implementation that for example doesn’t call a required Microsoft Modern Standby extension or fails to bring a computer out of suspend.

My other issue isn’t really an issue, but installers need to have you enter all information and then just walk away. None of “do you want to participate in the package survey” after a super lengthy download. Debian is the worst of these offenders and I can’t believe no one on their team has ever tried to fix it in the years it has been around.

I haven't managed to get HDR monitors nor my VR headset to work, and I've already spent way more time debugging it in Linux than I ever had to in Windows.

1. I made a post the other day how Fedora KDE doesn't render CJK fonts properly. MPV also wasn't rendering fonts properly so I had to manually add a font in mpv.conf.

2. When I installed Fedora KDE, there was a button to enable third party repos. It actually worked but it only enables NVIDIA and Steam repos so I had to go over to rpmfusion to get the ones for non-free ffmpeg.

3. I have a wireless pen tablet from XP Pen and I need to close and open the XP Pen app to get it to connect every time. It doesn't seem to "wake" automatically whenever I turn my tablet on. (nvm, using OpenTabletDriver instead fixes it)

4. On Fedora, installing DaVinci Resolve seems tricky. Don't know if I should use davincibox or davinci-helper. (edit: ended up using davincibox and it's pretty ok so far)

This is my first time using Fedora and KDE on my desktop. It's also been 2 years since I last used Linux on bare metal.

I spent many hours trying to find a fix for stuttering wireless (2.4 ghz) audio

I believe i managed it

But .. maybe not

Audio devices that are not prioritized or set to sleep is stupid. Stuttering audio or audio that cuts out is frustrating. Very frustrating.

Thats the biggest issue i have with linux.

I switched to Bazzite from Spectre Ghost Win 10 about 6 months ago.

The first problem i had, which was entirely my own doing, was that no games would work from Steam. Turns out, you can't run steam games from an NTFS hard drive, so reformatted and reinstalled.

Only two games that didn't work:

Planetary Annihilation, has problems with Wayland, fixable.

Fallout 4, single digit frame rate and input lag. Switched over to New Vegas rather than try and fight FO4.

Edit: I tried another distro before Bazzite, couldn't get Wi-Fi card to work, f-ing Intel...

kwin_wayland is currently using 2125Mb VRAM and 6268Mb GTT.

When the update process feel so perilous that I pray every time that my system reboots to the desktop safely, because the pain of troubleshooting the issue for 4 or more hours still haunts me (Nobara linux).

And I'm not new to linux, but because it works as expected 95% of the time, that 5% where it doesn't work stands out so much more.

I recently experienced a failed update on my laptop running arch, where the laptop lost power for some unknown reason, and bricked my system. I was so tired of this shit that I just downloaded cachy OS and wiped the disk, installed the OS and called it a day.

I know not everything is the fault of linux, but man . . . . There's too many small problems to count . . . The fragmentation of application UI frameworks, GNOME this, QT that, GTK there, wlroots here, wxWidgets over there . . . . KWin randomly crashing, scripts that should just be a part of the WM instead of breaking with every update, lack of standardization of UI menu structures, wayland being great but still not good enough for production environments, THE UTTER LACK OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS FOR AUDIO PRODUCTION ON LINUX, WHYYYYYYYYYYYY

I find it very difficult to run windows programs that don't have an automatic steam/lutris compatibility setup but require manual configuration. Havent had any luck getting stuff like game/map editors or obscure modding tools to run so far.

Aside from that i am pretty fine, excluding the keyring app. Wish there was an alternative because it never works for saving or providing login data any more.

I have an issue with my laptop on my school's network, which is likely an issue with the way the network is configured, because I've never had the issue on other computers or networks elsewhere, but sometimes my laptop(Linux Mint ThinkPad T490) will stay connected to the network, but say 'authentication required' and have no internet access until I reconnect. It also sometimes pops up a password box and asks me to reauthenticate to the network which I do, still using the same saved password. This gets annoying while writing tests that use browser window monitoring software. Like I said, it's probably an issue with the network but none of the windows or Mac users seem to have this issue so maybe someone has come across something similar or knows how to fix it.

I have a lenovo W530 laptop on a lenovo docking station with two external monitors via the docking stations two dvi ports. Just worked in win10 allowing all three screens to be different or spanned.

Is there any guide or plan on how to set this up on mxlinux 25? I've looked a bit but not a gui expert.

In general linux has been my daily driver since Slackware but this type of problem is my pain point.

not really a linux issue more of an application issue but I use Remmina for work and it crashes a couple times a day and that's annoying. For a while Ubuntu didn't have the GNOME changes that keeps the remote RDP session running when the client disconnects and I'd have to re-open all my remote applications a few times a day. I was expecting to have to wait till 26.04 to get that but a few weeks ago that update reached my work laptop and now I mostly have parity to how my old Windows work laptop worked.

Thermaltake Riing fan controller needs special python software. It worked fine from RPM in Fedora 42, but it hasn't been updated for Fedora 43 yet. Tried installing with pip, and creating a systemd service, but it didn't work immediately, and haven't had time to fuss with it again. Probably just going to get new fans I can control through mobo.

Was using default Fedora gnome, but it started getting into hibernation loops. Swapped to KDE, but I'm not sure I cleaned up the gnome install perfectly.

Still cannot recreate the responsiveness and auto-adapting resolution/DPI nature of Windows RDP in Linux. I want to be able to remotely connect from a laptop, desktop, etc and have it adapt to the client resolution and everything be clear and responsive and support keyboard shortcuts and re-up my existing session. Bandwidth isn't the issue here, typically 5+ gbps fiber. Have tried xrdp, various VNC clients, gnome remote desktop, nomachine, AnyDesk, rustdesk, parsec, etc.

This is actually the only thing holding me back.

I run multiple Linux VMs or LXCs (Debian, Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu...probably others) but making it my one and only primary just hasn't worked out.

Resolution settings is one thing I can think of right now.

In Windows, I can right-click the desktop, click Display Settings, and easily choose what resolution I want the monitor at.

Why? Because I stupidly bought an ultrawide monitor back in 2017, and when trying to remote in to do something from a different room in the house, the screen is too tiny for my weak eyes to read.

On Windows, I can remote in with RDP (KRDP for KDE users), do the above clicking, and then be greeted with a properly scaled environment to work with on a smaller device. Think 15in trying to use 2560x1080. It doesn't work for what I need.

I read that it might be because my monitor doesn't come with those presets (i.e. 1920x1080), but Windows doesn't care. I can do it there, painlessly. Linux wants me to (as far as I know) mess with a config file somewhere, and I just am not going to do that any more. I've ruined a lot of distros trying to fuck around with those damn config files! >:(

Can't get an auto shutdown at a specific time working on Bazzite.

I have a few 5th and 6th Gen Intel laptops and mini PCs for my kids with games. Working well enough for the most part and PAM account login time limits what times if the day they can sign in but I want it to auto logout or even better force shut down at the end of the day instead of them staying up all night.

Most guides recommend using cron which is fine in general but it isn't available in Bazzite. Even when I tried installing it since it isn't included by default. Tried two different guides and an AI recommendation to do it via Systemd but that isn't working as mentioned at the top.

I wish my Mint wouldn’t freeze so hard it blocks out all input.

I can’t get the Windows based firmware updaters for my motorcycle helmet Bluetooth headset and joystick fully running under Wine/Lutris/Whatever. They both use USB and just will not connect.

Also, once a quarter I have to use an archaic Excel sheet that is heavily dependent on some VB Script. This file absolutely will not open correctly in anything other than a locally installed version of Excel because the script needs a real local printer and Open/Libre/Whatever cannot handle the insanity of the VB Script. I have a Windows VM just for this one thing.

VR support is still pretty bad, at least for my HP Reverb G2 headset. On Windows, everything just works out of the box. Plug in the headset, start SteamVR and every single game works well.

On Linux, I have to install Envision to set-up Monado which provides the neccessary OpenXR runtime for games. But the controllers are not supported in the main Monado branch, so you'll have to set up a specific fork of it, which is not that well documented.

It does run fine with some games, but not all of them. Half-Life: Alyx refuses to launch, for example. There doesn't seem to be any motion smoothing, so moving your head is really rough, it almost looks like your eyes receive 24fps (even though the headset does run on 90Hz) and I get nausea after a few minutes. Tracking your surroundings also doesn't work well, when you move around it's all very "jumpy".

And I wasn't able to get the SteamVR application to run at all. I always get an error because it seems like the cameras used for motion tracking are detected as regular webcams. On some other WMR headsets a firmware update can solve that, but I already run the latest firmware on my G2.

Maybe other VR headsets work much better, but this one is in absolute alpha state and the only reason I still dual-boot into Windows. Given the fact WMR has been declared obsolete by Microsoft and removed from Windows 11 last year we might see improvements. I got my headset for 120$ which is really affordable for one that can do 2160p per eye.

To be fair, though, the very first line in the Envision Readme states:

This is still highly experimental software

So I absolutely knew what I was getting into and it's great that it even (somewhat) works at all.

I'm confused about Flatpaks :c The flatpak version of PhpStorm was the easiest way to install it, but because it's isolated from the rest of my system it couldn't really talk to the php version that's globally installed on my machine. I couldn't really figure out how to get the php version into the flatpak, so I installed it in some different way. Not a huge hassle, and I bet I'll understand it some day, but I did feel pretty dumb haha

Nvidia. I ordered a refurbished ThinkPad P1, and it showed up with a Nvidia card. There are problems waking up from sleep and sessions crashing that I don’t have with the iGPU devices which have FOSS drivers.

Electron apps. They eat RAM, but it’s the only way some apps are delivered.

MacOS can setup independent virtual desktops on each monitor, but Gnome has independent virtual desktops on only the main monitor with the others static. It can be set for all the monitors to change at the same time, but that’s not what I’m after.

LUKS is Linux only. There isn’t a cross platform way to do FDE on removable media.

Efi partitions use FAT FS. Why is this in the spec?

Only some manufacturers support LVFS. There isn’t a standardized mechanism for firmware updates, and many manufacturers don’t bother.

Gnome doesn’t have a profile export feature.

BTRFS is still a work in progress after all these years. Subvolume space quotas still aren’t recommended for use and encryption is “coming soon”. The tooling is a mess, no per subvolume mount options, no converting an existing folder to a subvolume. It mostly works, but ZFS is still nicer.

LibreOffice doesn’t have an “easy” mode similar to Google Docs and it doesn’t have a vim mode. Sometimes I just want to write, and not fiddle with every little detail.

I have to turn on my screen before turning on the PC otherwise Linux doesn't appear on the screen.

Also if the screen goes into standby In often have to restart my computer.

I have Nvidia so not sure if thats the reason

For me, I think a really interesting take would be if Linux had a stronger office suite — meaning IT could more easily justify being a “Linux shop.” Active Directory + Microsoft Office 365 is the killer combination that leaves so many professionals saying “just use Microsoft.” Then it’s so much more natural to just issue everyone a Windows machine, and keep it that way because it’s already set up that way. If Linux could bolster itself to impress a similar level of confidence in IT professionals at the office, I think we’d see many more jobs willing to let their staff work on Linux (or even choose it exclusively for the business).

There would need to be corporations that can accept the same levels of liability Microsoft does, but for Linux. For many organizations, it comes down to who’s liable for what theoretical issues.

• Because of Nvidia Driver I can’t enable Safe boot from BIOS.
• Latest Mainline kernel often won’t install with current Nvidia driver because of GCC version mismatch.

In short, it’s the old problem maker - Nvidia GPU Linux driver. And, unless the whole thing becomes open source, there is no end to this problem.

Less problems with Linux specifically, but they are minor issues that are annoying

Streaming to discord causes slight stuttering. It may have gotten better recently honestly, I haven't been streaming anything performance heavy enough to notice. Could try one of the 3rd party clients, but then can't have a universal mute/deafen bind so I'm not worrying for now.

I can't boot sunshine because I went with 25.04 and they don't have native builds for that, flatpak is not being nice with compatibility either. Technically I probably could make it work, but too much effort when steam is good enough for streaming metaphor refantazio to the tv for now.

Spent 4 hours on Sunday debugging "SW microcode error" iwlwifi crashes... eventually found some random shit on the Arch forums where you turn a bunch of shit off and it fixes it

Briefly:

My ThinkPad and it's snapdragon 5G modem. *ubuntu is the only distro where it works, and it only works because I am using the fcc unlock scripts that are no longer functioning automatically/by default. The docs for this are abysmal and atrocious.

On my desktop, my creative sound blaster cards (two of them, AE-5 and Z) when set to surround/5.1 - FL and FR are correct, no other channel is. After days of research and tinkering, I achieved no progress and it has been a known issue for like 8+ years, according to forum posts. Stereo/2.0 is fine.

My desktop is thus stuck on W10 (there are additional hurdles but that is a blocker), while the TP is for niche use cases. I do more server stuff than desktop/workstation.

full handwriting input.....

already whined about it here with a handwriting example to show what my regular input on windows is. i basically used a wacom drawing tablet as my primary input and barely touched the keyboard at all.

Been daily-driving Linux for going on a decade, but recently got a "smart [bicycle] trainer" and a Zwift subscription.

Using this the Zwift program runs just fine. However, passing sensor data through Zwift Companion on my Android (GrapheneOS) phone, only some of the sensors connect and others don't.

(Running Zwift itself on my phone connects to the sensors correctly, so that's what I've been doing so far. I would like to get it set up more completely, though, with a decent-size screen for the main program and freeing up my phone for Zwift Companion, so I do need to troubleshoot it eventually.)

Not a real big issue, but sometimes (not all the time) when my Ubuntu OS (24.04.3 LTS) puts my desktop to sleep (automatically after 2 hours idle) when I go to wake it up it's as if I've rebooted. All my applications are closed, I have to login etc, but it doesn't really do a full boot sequence with the option to enter BIOS etc.

Like I said, not a big deal as I'm not (usually) dumb enough to leave unsaved work sitting around, but it is kind of annoying.

Audio is the only thing holding me back. I have a pair of lucidsound LS51 headphones for gaming that I can't get working wirelessly. While the have Bluetooth, it's shit for latency and not workable for gaming.

That's it. Everything else works but until I buy replacement headset or find a way to convince Linux to pick em up and work it's still windows for me

Any good wireless headsets that folks know of that work Linux side?

Music production if you’re using sampled virtual instruments (i.e. Kontakt) just isn’t viable. The VST bridges work fine for most stuff and there’s some great open source effects plugins and Linux-supporting synths around. Reaper works great, and JACK mostly works once you figure it out how to set it up. Sampled instruments though…

Utilizing TPM for full disk encryption.

Screen sharing is still touch and go in 2026 on arch

Nowhere. I am completely satisfied. My use case does not limit me.

[Kubuntu 25.10]

Fingerprint support is weird. The hardware works after installing a driver from Dell but I could never get it to work on both login and lock screens at the same time - I get one working, the other breaks. Also, even when it works the behavior is not consistent between those screens, and also requires mouse movement or key presses before the sensor responds which is annoying.

Bluetooth support has some oddities, like the fact that some apps can properly swap my headset from "High Fidelity" and "Headset" codecs and others can't. I've gotten used to doing it manually when necessary but it drove me crazy earlier on.

rclone is awesome but I really wish it had a way to set auto-mounting or auto-syncing as part of the setup. Took me quite a few attempts to get it working as I wanted.

The only issue I have faced, and still no solution that I can find is that I can't sleep my desktop. I'm running Arch (i7-12700KF, NVIDIA RTX 3090, Asus motherboard)

I've looked at the Arch wiki, and nothing I have found has helped.

There are a few shit pieces of commercial software with license managers that refuse to work on Linux (or VMs on Windows, too).

Shortcuts (symlinks). Cannot work out why the fuck they are not appearing on a shared drive. The folders are, but the symlinks inside? Nada. Source is accessible and mounted

I think the thing that's shifting attitudes these days - aside from the fact that stability has long since arrived on the Linux desktop - is that Microsoft has taken a nosedive in terms of functionality at the same time, with little to indicate that the situation will improve on their end.

A fully stable desktop that never breaks is not really on the table, but Linux is by far the most stable and user-centred one, at this point.

Upgrading distros after a couple years of stagnation is a huge pain point. Why can't i skip versions in the middle?

Also for some strange reason, my both my PC and laptop with ubuntu freezed multiple times during update. Even while copy a large number of files, it happened. The workaround was to use tty thingy and skip UI completely.

Also, lack of proper errors could be another thing, while updating my distro, I kept getting strange errors that linux-firmware could not be updated. It took multiple bricks (including breaking filesystem and booting with usb to fix it) for me to realize the issue was, i was using a custom kernel mod for wifi devices that I installed 6 years ago cuz of a bug in kernel (which was fixed in versio 6.1+ i believe) and the error it was giving was reaaaally not helpful

Struggling to get my dev environment setup on nixos. A bit of a tutorial gap for LEAN4 and sagemath in particular.

No autohotkey style automation, in particular I miss hotkeys that would move the mouse. Kmonad has done a ok job of rebinding keys, though it doesn't convert a held key into multiple inputs afaik.

Some VR games on steam are also a bit rough, possibly a graphics driver problem? (Though I would be just as happy for a Linux optimized resonite competitor.)

Just a few odd chinese windows programs to flash random devkits. They run in WINE but can't pass USB through to actually flash them. Keep an offline windows 10 laptop around for such scenarios. I don't want that shit on my system in any form.

For me it's the fact that there's no "perfect setup" for anything. This likely only applies to my specific machine (kids, don't buy an asus rog strix, trust me) but I can never get the "ok this setup is perfect, everything works exactly how I like it, I can't complain"

What I mean by this is for example KDE Plasma 6. All my apps and everything work on it. games work flawlessly, all my dev tools, great. so I should be happy right? no. workspaces suck on multi-monitor setups, no native auto tiling and the third party script that does it is kinda wonky. Ok fair enough lets use something else like say Niri or Sway or Hyprland whatever. cool I got my tiling, I have my vim nav, awesome right? no certain games don't work with these WMs as they all have issues with mouse constraints on certain xwayland stuff that KDE has managed to solve.

OK fair enough lets try an x11 WM. nope can't do it on my laptop as I have both an integrated AMD gpu and and discrete Nivida gpu therefore x11 can't handle it as far as gaming goes.

There's a few other things like that. Like I want to use something that isn't packaged for whatever distro so you go with the app image of it but it's pretty much useless since it won't integrate with your system. i.e. the appimage of Tabby. Or waiting on a package to get approved but the maintainer drops out at the last minute so either you have to pick it up or wait on someone else to which essentially resets the process (yay nix pkgs).

Essentially with linux in most cases the focus always seems to be on fixing the complicated things while ignoring the easy user experience things. Like workspaces shouldn't suck as much as they do on Plasma and the "fix" coming next month isn't going to improve things that much. oh boy I can pin a single app on my second monitor...that doesn't fix the dreadful workspace experience on Plasma. ALL they have to do is allow independant sets of workspaces per monitor. that's it. that's all I want. but the devs at KDE, just like their opinions on tiling, will say "well we don't use workspaces like that so you won't either".

Just submitted a bug report to KDE for Discover where apt update failed behind the scenes due to Synaptics changing some value in their repo. It just needed a confirmation [y/n] to continue, figured someone would want to do it.

I tried to install it on a friend's 2012 macbook air, but the wifi didn't work even after trying different distros and trying suggested answers like installing several additional wifi drivers.

I realize 2012 is a quite old machine, but the reality is that many (most?) people are going to be trying Linux for the first time on their very old computers. So having showstopper failures on old machines probably leads to a good amount of people thinking Linux doesn't work well.

After building my new machine. I swapped from Windows to Bazzite, then now CachyOS. It's been pretty smooth.

My current things are:

• Ring timeouts on my 9070xt. I feel like I've tried everything. Seems like this is an issue with directX 12, swapping to 11 works for the most part.

• Wayland shenanigans. I want to use PTT in discord. If I use the x11 environmental, it works, but that then means I can't PTT when using my browser. Using the git that everyone recommends works globally, but seems to be adding Ctrl or alt to my press after starting a game, which breaks my in game keybinds. For now it's the env fix and swapping to voice activation if talking while browsing.

• Hyprland stuff including keybinds to open on my other monitor when my first monitor has a full screen app. I can launch the apps and set full screen properties via window rules, but need to toggle full screen in order for it to work the way I expect. Oh and then there is also the problem with the wallpaper swapping forcing my workspace back to 1, even if I am on another workspace using an app.

Most other stuff has been nice. I don't miss Windows in the slightest. These are just the last few bits to bother me and are by no means show stoppers.

Secure boot and wireless controllers are basically mutually exclusive. Unless I compile and sign the drivers myself, which is certainly a "do at your own risk" operation. Most people don't use secure boot, so the error doesn't pop up unless you dig for a while.

Not daily, but sim racing. Game and peripheral support is all over the place. Wheels/wheelbases generally need Windows to update firmware or adjust features.

Some games will detect wheel, pedals, handbrake, etc. no prob in Windows but not at all in Linux. Certain games need reg fixes in Windows that are more complicated to apply in Linux.

It’s a pain, and the best supported wheel is also one of the cheapest/poorest quality ones on the market (Logitech G29). If you have higher end DD gear or mix and match stuff, it can get complicated or unviable.

An update to CachyOS broke VirtualBox which is setting me back in some projects. All the help threads I've found don't fix the issue, so I'm stuck waiting for another update to maybe fix it. Apparently the kernel driver isn't installed anymore. The command VirtualBox suggests doesn't exist, and the package all the advice online suggested did nothing. Guess I'm SOL for the time being.

VMs were my solution to some programs that simply don't work on Linux, but if I can't have it working reliably I have to keep a spare Windows SSD.

Running Windows in VMWare Workstation: I do development work that really has to be done in Windows, so that's where I spend my day. Even on my Windows machine, I keep the dev environment in a Virtual machine so that I can go anywhere with it, or use if from any machine with VMWare loaded.

I find myself having to stay booted into my Windows Drive to run VMWare without a bunch of lag / weird issues. So at that point I just kept working from that drive and don't really boot back to the Linux drive.

I also seem to have a heck of a time seeing files on my NTFS drives from Linux.

Some of this is probably the older Nvidia card that I have, and the fact that I run 3 monitors, and running VMWare on 3 monitors acts weird in Linux.

I wanted a cheap way to try out using a tablet to read music from at my amateur orchestra. I couldn't find a large-screened affordable android tablet, but I got hold of a cheap 2nd hand Surface Pro 5, a Surface Pen (for making annotations on the music), and a bluetooth foot pedal (for turning pages).

I figured I'd try sticking Fedora on it, but even with the surface specific kernel installed, it did not seem stable. Waking it with the power button randomly stopped working entirely, seemed quite sluggish, that kind of thing.

Even if I'd got it working, there are basically no ideal options on Linux for music reading software. Other platforms have MobileSheets, enScore, etc. If the core OS experience had felt more robust then I was looking forward to trying to create one myself in Qt, but just to get something working I had to give up and stuck a LTS edition of W10 on it instead, which (sadly) does work great and seems very stable in comparison. This makes sense - it's a very Windows-specific bit of hardware; I was just hopeful that it's basically just a x64/UEFI device with a bunch of tablety peripherals, so Linux should be an option even if it's missing a few features. But I can't risk it blacking out or failing to respond in the middle of a concert.

For some reason, my Vizio TV doesn't get signal after my media pc goes to sleep and wakes up or the input changes and changes back. I have to completely reboot the computer every time.

CachyOS for what its worth.

I’d really like a cross platform clipboard with unlimited text clips that utilize a custom keyboard like PastePal.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clipboard-manager-pastepal/id1503446680

Permissions management. I recently tried creating a new exfat partition on my external HD using the default KDE Partition Manager. When finished, I found that only the current (admin) user had write access to the drive. I tried changing this using the Dophin file explorer. It appeared to let me change these permissions through the Properties menu and the drop downs within the Permissions tab, but nothing changed after hitting OK. I was eventually able to fix it using the chown command in the terminal, but I feel like I should have been able to set this when creating the partition as well as in the file explorer.

I still have win on my laptop, but I barely use it. I decided to install CachyOS on my new desktop, and it works better than I expected) Still have some problems, though, and they mostly come down to my reluctance to do research. Here are the main ones: My azeron is not supported. There is antimicrox program recomended to map inputs, and it worked first time I configured it. But then I decided to change it a little, and changes will not apply, keeping my first configuration. After I leave computer unattended for several minutes, it won't properly wake up. Strangely, it wakes up normally if I send it to sleep manually. Some programs (mainly Steam). Take unexpectedly long to startup after boot. What is worse, window system completely freezes while it starts up, the experience I last had with Windows))

Anyway, I'm happy and not going back

I’ve used a few different distros over the years: Debian, Ubuntu, Neon, openSUSE Leap

Never once has a major version upgrade ever gone 100% successfully. Even on a bog standard system with no 3rd party repos or niche hardware. I don’t know why it’s still so difficult

In my case is Kernel Anticheats that work exclusively on Windows. It's a pain to switch to Windows just to play those games. Obviously the fastes way to fix this is to directly not play those games anymore.

I use Fedora on a laptop, NixOS on my PC and Debian for the servers. It is better than Windows in almost every way. Except:

When connecting a bluetooth headset to the Fedora laptop, lock it for a break and unlock it again, the headset won't work. Only a few times bluetooth on and off helps, sometimes a whole restart. And connecting two devices the same time (like mouse + headset) can lead to both not working.

On NixOS/Hyprland Drag and Drop feels very wonky, for example re-arranging the toolbar in FreeCAD by drag and dropping the elements is more of a game of luck, if everything ends up in the place where it should be.

Getting the AMD-GPU to work with darktable always requires some time of tinkering, after setting up a new OS.

Wifi 6E on my Intel network cards has been a PITA on any distro I've used. 6ghz either doesn't work at all, or it constantly switches from 2.4/5 to 6ghz, then back to the point that Wifi is unusable, and I have to manually disable it. AX200, AX201, AX211 all suffering.

remote desktop is pretty much useless. i can do most things through ssh, but some things i just want a gui for, like changing gnome settings or something. i can't figure out how to remote-login a gnome session or vnc. of course, i can pass a firefox session or similar, but that's not really enough.

Power management is awful on MacBook M1 using Asahi Fedora, other than that I have no complaints.

I need office and affinity.

How do I sync my photos from an iPhone/iCloud account?

I’m trying to cut out Mac OS, but this is the last thing I need an easy Linux solution for, so my daily driver stays a dual-booter.

There’s the MMO I play too… it recently got a new Linux client, but I have to redo my years worth of macros for the Mac client because they’re incompatible. :(

1. Ubuntu memory allocation and limits (I think). I haven't dug too much into finding the root cause, but I have a recurring issue where the GUI freezes up, and it looks like it might be related to not handling well how much memory it needs for the task.

Maybe it thinks it has more memory available than it does, or the gc isn't running efficiently, or it's allocating to 100% without including a sensible safety gap, something like that. It's a significantly low-level enough problem that I'm wary of tinkering with values I don't fully understand even if I wanted to spend the probably large amount of time necessary to find root cause.

2. The fact Ubuntu now withholds package updates unless you're paying for their "maintenance and compliance subscription", but that's probably on me to change distros. I get that Ubuntu employees need money so they can eat, just like I do, but ... The idea of paying for core package updates feels like a nightmare waiting to happen, for both Ubuntu developers managing package dependencies and end-user experience.

Hardware RGB configuration is a pain. I tried some opensource tools but none of them are good.

To configure my Corsair RGB lights I only had luck by installing Corsairs iCUE software in a VM and configuring it that way. It's literally a 1 GiB software just to change some variables in the RGB controller that saves and handles the lights without even needing to have the VM turned on.

Login issues on CachyOS. Constantly glitches at login and causes the system to freeze requiring a hard shutdown and try again. It happens about every other boot. I've tried switching to plasma-login-manager from SDDM and back with no success. Apparently it has to do with Nvidia drivers so am going to try a rollback but its absolutely driving me nuts.

Honestly, the only feature, and it's not even part of baseline Windows (it's from Windows Powertoys), that I'm missing is Workspaces, I had made that a main part of my workflow daily.

The feature creates Shortcut Buttons that when pressed does two steps, in sequence;

1. opens specific numbers of specific windows
2. automatically tiles them into a specific layout

Only had 2 of them;

• gaming
  • opened Steam + Browser + Spotify + Discord
  • Steam on the left screen, Browser and Discord on the right screen, Spotify minimised
• TTRPGs
  • opened two browser windows and discord
  • one browser window full screen on left, the other sharing half the screen with discord on the right

I love my (Arch) Linux setup and really want to leave Windows behind, but I do very often find myself having to boot into my backup Windows install sadly. And once I boot into Windows it's really tough to pack up all my stuff and switch back to Linux. It's a bit of an awkward position, and honestly it's not really Linux's fault, but Windows'. But I'd still love to hear any suggestions.

I still need Remote Desktop (RDP) for my work, which still runs exclusively Windows. Plus for my work I need to share a game controller over that RDP connection too, for which even on Windows the support is extremely thin, but still works and is free. On Linux my only option is to use some USB sharing software that supports both Windows and Linux and has a license of 160 dollars a year (which is crazy), or write my own (which I could do, but it'd take a while).

On Linux, Remmina and FreeRDP just seem to work worse than it does on Windows. It stutters and freezes for long periods, making it just generally unusable since I need a stable 30+ fps stream. I'm not sure if I just picked a wrong RDP replacement, but everyone seemed to recommend this. Using anything other than RDP isn't really an option unless I can justify it heavily to someone who is more likely to see me using Linux as an impediment, and I basically can't work with what's available for RDP on Linux...

Man. Okay. Using bazzite for almost a year. The only pain point is also a windows issue, is sound playback. Specifically in Bazzire Where the Sound for my Bluetooth headphones decides when it wants to change from: High Fidelity playback (A2DP Sink, Codec AAC) or High Fidelity playback (A2DP Sink, Codec SBC-XQ) randomly goes monotone to one of these two: Headset Head Unit (HSP/HFP, codec CVSD) or Headset Head Unit (HSP/HFP, codec mSBC).

I've tried running a bunch of disable commands in the terminal but upon the device disconnecting and reconnecting it gets enabled again. Doesn't happen often but when it does it's mega annoying.

I am a recent convert and the only hiccup I’ve run into on fedora is that it will not find my brother printer that is plugged in via USB. I even downloaded and installed their drivers from brother and it’s still refuses to find the printer. I don’t know I haven’t had time to fiddle with it. One forum that I read suggested just connecting it over Wi-Fi because it works better. That’s on my to-do list for the next free weekend I have but overall not a big deal

My concerns are mostly all unfair. Just want to acknowledge that right up front. Compared with macOS:

• Cider is an admirable but buggy solution for Apple Music (whose own web player is barely usable)
• I wish Alt+Tabbing had the option to bring to the fore all window instances for a given app like macOS's Cmd+Tab; as it is I am always having to hunt down stray Firefox or Files windows, which get further buried down the Alt+Tab bar(in Cinnamon) when you minimize them.
• no OS does common alternate characters (dash and em-dash, accented characters, etc. all accessible with variations on the Alt key) or Japanese language input (Ctrl+space and then just start typing phonetically) as well as macOS does. The composition key is useful to a degree but it feels like second class citizen shit compared to the macOS implementations that make some typing and much language learning basically useless for me on my Linux devices.

Compared to Windows:

• pretty basic (and again Cinnamon centric) but Files / the file browser in other apps could use some love. Typing the first few letters of a file name in Files takes me there and highlights it which is great but if memory serves (not near machine now), I can't just hit Enter from that point to open the thing. Equally annoying is when browsing for a file to open or save, there is often not a create folder option or button, and when there is, it isn't tied to a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl+Shift+N or F12. I sincerely hate switching input methods when it isn't called for, so having to grab my mouse just to click the new folder button and return to typing or worse, to leave that browser altogether to go to Files and create the folder because the button or command to do so didn't exist in the browser window is a real drag.

In general:

• the least fair complaint of all because it seems especially like the answer is "well then why don't you pitch in and help?" (The answer to which is, "I don't have the skills, I'm sorry, I'll be quiet"), is trying to replicate workflows in off-brand software. I love LibreOffice spiritually but trying to do some basic PowerPoint stuff recently, it really let me down. ONLYOFFICE was much more usable but it still has a lot of jank and, I suspect, a memory leak because the longer I use it, the slower and less stable it becomes. Krita seems more usable than GIMP, but neither is as usable as Affinity Photo, let alone Photoshop. Put another way, it's tough to be constantly reminded you're compromising in order to live a largely faster, stabler, freer computing experience. MacOS is a pile of shit these days but when compared to Windows (since I'm not gaming with it) I never feel like I'm compromising. It can do everything Windows can, and often better. If there isn't Windows specific software, macOS may have competitive indie darling software to fill the void. Pixelmator for example (before being gobbled up) didn't feel like it was a somewhat rudderless, good faith effort by a tired gaggle of volunteers…it felt premium. I'm still waiting for that experience on Linux.

TigerVNC was a pain to set up on Fedora 43. Seems to be a documentation drift issue with online docs. Lesson learned rely on local doc.

ProtonVPN does not play nicely with my KVM network bridge interface. I have to down it in order to connect, and then when I up the network bridge again afterwards the VM doesnt seem to use it until a restart occurs.

I need to figure out how automatically to pull the port forwarded in my ProtonVPN session and have it update firewalld and qbittorrentd respectively

My Bluetooth devices constantly drop in and out of connection. And that's once they're paired, pairing in the first place is a PITA and always takes multiple tries, and very often things unpair overnight so I have to re-pair frequently. I have three computers running Mint and they all do this with all Bluetooth connections.

My Mac had no such issues, you pair something one and it's stuck like glue till you unpair it, and even automatically re-pairs after a reboot no problem.

Audio is always the final straw for me. I usually have multiple devices, multiple headsets, whenever i want to switch it's a mess and things don't always work. Also have hit or miss support for higher bitrates.

Also moved to a rodecaster for my audio and it does not support all the bells and whistles in linux.

Lmao. The scroll bar in this thread is fucking microscopic.

The peoples os right..

And the near complete lack of upvotes is really telling too

But dev don't listen complains.... 

They are elitist, validist, authoritarian and meritocrats

It's useless..... 🤷‍♀️ 😬

Nowhere.