Modding a steam installed game is horrible. on Windows: point to the exe & done. Linux:
- Find compatibility and tool to run your modding programs
- Find your fucking install folder. (No steam a hidden folder is not where I want my stuff installed)
- Deal with symlinks in your install path
- Fuck you, you didn't use the exact same compatibility setting when you ran your tool Vs. When you installed the game. Try again.
Don't even talk about running cheat engine.
Asides from that Linux is .. Fine.
Have you tried using Limo?
Thanks for sharing this! This was new to me but makes modding Steam games so much easier.
A little more difficult for GOG games but not much; definitely much better than the manual approach.
I'd definitely agree here. In general, stuff where multiple processes need to talk to each other but are in separate containers is frustrating. So modding tools stumble a bit. Also, things that require login via a browser, which then redirects back to the application (for example, Unity opens a login page then goes back) - when it's running through Proton or in a container, it'll open in the browser on the host system, which then can't get back to it.
That may just be a me being stupid issue, but it's annoying.
Still keep using it because it's great, and no ads or crap is lovely.
Protontricks makes it much easier to tell which steam folder is which game, but its still annoying
I can't think of anything I miss. Windows is so primitive compared to Linux.
I wonder how hard it might be to build something like AHK for Linux.
I'm a big fan of AHK myself, and my small scripts would be a real gap when I finally manage to kick Windows out.
Basically all linux distros have a keyboard shortcut menu where you can add scripts and programs that do whatever you need. I have only used AHK once long ago, so i dont remember all that it does, but isnt that just all it is basically. The thing that makes AHK easy for people is all the publicly available scripts people made and published, not the application itself.
Among my primary uses is completely remapping the keyboard layout, from scan codes to international Colemak (like Dvorak but different).
That means my script captures every alpha keystroke and sends something else instead.
AHK is marvelous to run on otherwise locked-down corporate computers.
While I'm at it, my AHK also tracks typing stats, just for fun.
If you have a keyboard that can run the QMK firmware, you can remap keys and run macros in the keyboard.
I use a variety of laptops with their built-in keyboards, and sometimes with a variety of plain usb keyboards.
It's easy to run an AHK script on each machine, just for me. It's not feasible to carry a special keyboard around.
QMK keyboards are not special. And you can buy one in any size, layout and portability.
As someone familiar with Colemak & Dvorak, I'm surprised you are not familiar with custom mechanical keyboards. Check out r/mk on leddot.
The Wayland story for such tools was pretty bad for a while, but AFAIK the necessary protocols are now in place, so it should be possible to build this now (though probably not with all features due to security).
But I'd love something like AHK with a saner scripting language, maybe Lua or JS (through QuickJS)!
I like inkscape but snapping is terrible. In corel I just drag whatever I need with my mouse and it just snaps to where I need it to be. I always thought this is fairly simple and standard but when I tried snapping in Inkscape, it always tries to snap to something on the other half of the document.
I need to constantly change snapping options to make it work whereas in corel I enabled all the options, set and forget thing, it just does what I want every time, as if it's reading my mind, without the need to toggle snapping options every time.
For autohotkey-Like stuff on Wayland I've been very happy with https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
I miss Clipjump. It's built on top of AHK and it makes managing clipboard so much easier.
Klipper is nice but not as convenient.
No.
Not really. I've for several years removed any ties to windows and have been running linux for some time now!
The only thing I miss is paint.net.
- Newer versions don't run in WINE.
- Pinta, a fork of paint.net, is old and is missing many features of modern paint.net.
- Some alternatives, like Krita, are more for drawing, whereas I use paint.net for image editing.
- GIMP lacks a shape tool.
Inkscape? Maybe.
Gimp is not a drawing software, so it makes sense it doesn't have a dedicated "draw complex geometric figures" tool by default. It does have a shape selection tool. Anyways, it all depends on what you're trying to achieve. Krita is for painting, gimp is for image manipulation, inkskape is for vector graphics. Paint.net is a weirdo that does everything but doesn't do any of those things well enough.
Inkscape is for vectors and handles rasters poorly. I love Inkscape, but it boots slowly. Paint.NET is fast and light. Perfect for marking up screenshots for technical documentation. Pinta does okay in this role, but it's no Paint.NET.
Wild concept here. Raster as background and marking up as vector graphics on an overlay. Or use gwenview which is designed exactly for that.
Gwenview is a new one on me. Thanks for the tip! Downloading it now.
Raster as background and marking up as vector graphics on an overlay.
There are lots of use cases for exactly that, like certain graphics tasks my partner does for her employer (flyers, t-shirt designs). with an existing raster image as background in Inkscape. For what I do, that workflow would be serious overkill.
Agreed for those reasons and so many more, still have yet to find a suitable alternative.
At this point I just use Krita because I'm somewhat familiar with it/Photoshop-like layouts, but it's like taking using powertools on microelectronics.
Like others said, a lot is just nostalgia. I liked a lot of the aesthetics of the time, from 90's to XP, to Vista/7.
Also like others said, a majority of actually-affordable peripherals use some sort of specific driver system that's Windows only. Big example being my cool Mechland keyboard I really like, but it's one of those where trying to give it cool effects in OpenRGB would brick it, and only their Windows software can access some of its main features.
Not the worst though, I just have a Win10 VM I fire up exclusively to update those peripherals.
WAIT, KNOW WHAT? WORKING VR. I MISS THAT. But M$ themselves killed that one so it's kinda moot? My WMR Odyssey+ worked GREAT, and since M$ decided it's a paperweight now, the awesome souls behind Monado are our only hope for decent VR before the Steam Frame. (Which now terrifies me thanks to RAM inflation...)
I still have to boot into windows for Autocad and laser cutting software. Please lightburn bring back Linux support!
Dunno if Autocad is a major dependency for your job, I use freeCAD instead and it works. Of course there will be differences and you’d have to relearn how to do things.
I wish it were that easy. I'm probably north of 10x faster designing in Solidworks compared to freecad, ignoring drawings. Obviously that will chance in time and practice, but right now I can't really do something that people expect to be billed ~50 hours of design and it takes 250, that ends things pretty quickly. There also isn't a lot of down time on the job to tinker and learn, so that's done on my free time. And I'm in the position to choose what we use to design, not everyone is.
Give Rayforge a try.
I'm tempted to say "copilot" just for the ragebait
WinKey+period to enter emoji and other Unicode characters. I've got some workarounds, but they are all just slightly kludgy, especially with the Wayland clipboard.
What desktop environment are you using? That shortcut is already available in KDE Plasma 5/6.
TIL! Sweet! If I can use emojis on my desktop, I have less reason to wreck my thumbs on my phone! :D
(But hey classic emoticons are 4eva! Lol)
While true, I found myself mildly irked by the KDE emoji picker at times. On Windows, you focus an input, press Super+., and then can click any character and it immediately inputs so I can type out 🫵🍽️🤔 easily. On KDE it only copies the character, so the flow is (if I remember right) Super+., click a character, focus the input, paste, Super+., click a character, focus the input, paste....
I've found most Linux clipboard managers share the same issue of having to leave the text flow to copy an input and paste it again. Basically they are treated as separate apps rather than popups.
I'm on PopOS Cosmic, I should make a feature request, but I've been busy.
Alternatively you could check if you have Debian repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list.d because PopOS is based off of Debian at its core, and follow Debian's guide to installing KDE, I do not recommend adding Debian's repositories if you do not already have them as you may install conflicting packages/dependencies by mistake.
I have bindings on super + period and super + comma for an emoji flatpak. Usually at least one of them works. This is the flatpak I use. I still have to press ctrl + v afterwards, so the experience isn't perfect.
spoiler
I bound super+e to Emoji Mart, which is ok, but copies it rather than typing it.
There are some decent ones out there. That Windows shortcut always sucked ass compared to their character map, and that wasn't great either.
Idk, it had emoji and Unicode and search by name. The Win11 made it worse though. EmojiMart is fine.
Like... Fredesktop clipboards or is there some Wayland feature causing trouble. B/c my understanding was wms define clipboard functionality generally using freedesktop spec as the base so curious how Wayland is causing trouble.
I can't use Proton Pass and some other apps because they still use xclip. It'll straighten out with time. Just an irritation.
if you're using fcitx to manage input methods, you can enable the unicode module, which lets you bind a shortcut to input unicode characters using a search box. it's quite handy, though most people don't use fcitx as it's not needed for simple appending input methods, like the US QWERTY keyboard
Full Software support and functionality from device vendors.
The flying toasters in the After Dark screensavers
Wait I'm pretty sure there's Linux screensavers for those and a bunch of others?
I do miss some of the classic Win95 screensavers though. :D
Yep, you're right!
I think a built in antivirus isnt a bad idea, for free none the less.
ClamAV. And having it built-in is called bloatware.
You can always use arc.
Nah, having a useful tool built in is a good user experience, provided you can remove it. Windows fails on the second part. But I think OS's should aim to have simple tasks covered by default apps such as Paint on Windows or Libre Office on most Linux distros, and an anti virus is probably a necessary install for many Windows users.
I think it is a bad idea, just stick to the official repos and this is a non-issue.
if it becomes an issue anyway AV won't help you.
I use Linux 100 percent full time. I have to remote into windows, Azure, deal with Office 365 and Windows servers for work.
I always do it from Linux because I need something to just work and is reliable.
I miss NOTHING about windows. Using it ALWAYS reminds me of how bad and anti productive it is. Every day I curse something about it. I left when Windows XP came out, the enshitification was clear.
I am writing this now because once again, windows is doing stupid things that are pissing me off.
If windows went away tomorrow I would miss absolutely nothing, and in fact would be a cause for celebration. Although I would probably have to work harder, because the only good thing about windows is if you are getting paid to deal with it, everyone knows it is slow and wastes tons of time.
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Games, though it's more of a game company issue. I like Apex Legends.
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Microsoft Office stuff. Every now and then I need to make a presentation, and LibreOffice Impress to Microsoft PowerPoint isn't that good. I resort to Google Slides for now.
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Cursor trails. I tried making it myself until I stumbled on the concept of hardware cursor. I still want to do it, but man, putting an image where your pointer is at is harder than I thought. So much more if you're on Wayland apparently.
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(Lack of) general ecosystem fragmentation. I still don't understand why I can't paste image that is clearly present in both xclip and wl-paste over Remmina. It does work if I open LibreOffice Draw, paste it there, then copy it back, and paste it in Remmina. Emacs on Xorg is blurry and requires xwayland-satellite but smooth, and Emacs GTK is sharp but stuttery.
Every now and then I need to make a presentation, and LibreOffice Impress to Microsoft PowerPoint isn't that good. I resort to Google Slides for now.
It may not be your thing, but personally I've had a lot of success with RevealJS. You just write HTML (or even Markdown) and it automatically builds your slides for you such that they run on any browser. You can make it as complicated or as simple as you like (I've done some wild stuff with CSS) and everything can be versioned in git and published to anywhere that supports static files.
Here's a reasonably professional-looking presentation I occasionally give about Kubernetes if you're interested.
the sun
Jokes aside, most of what I'd use in a baremetal installation, I can also do in a VM. The few things that don't work revolve lack of proper hardware acceleration for XP/Vista games, of which I have some.
Not only do I miss nothing from Windows, but also the decisions MS has made each and every year since I dumped them has only increased my conviction that I made the right move in doing so. Not one time have I read a MS/Windows headline and felt I was somehow missing out on anything I would ever want to be a part of.
I thought I did, until having to use it for a few days last week after having swapped to Linux in December.
MusicBee for playing my local music library.
I've switched to Strawberry and it's not bad, but I will always yearn for MusicBee.
Me too. It's the only piece of software that I truly miss. There's not a single alternative in the Linux ecosystem that compares to it.
Yeah, MusicBee is awesome. I wish it was on Linux too. I couldn't find a player I liked well enough for a local library, so now I use Navidrome to host my library and use Feishin for playback.
AutoHotkey
nop. my overall desktop experience has improved substantially after I carved out my own niche of 'creature comforts'.
feels lovely to have a system that works for you, rather than something that's so adversarial.
the only thing i miss is having every vst work (i've learned ot live without the broken ones which are only a couple in my collection, besides that all of them work beautifully, aside from a few that have flickery UIs). FL Studio on Linux is awesome.
Middle click to free scroll
That's in Firefox at least, but you have to turn it on in the settings.
chromium-browser --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll
Works on anything Chromium, including Electron shitware like Discord
There are things I miss from Windows 95, 98, NT, and XP. There's nothing I miss from Windows 7, 10, or 11. Everything I cared about had been deleted by the time of Windows 7.
I noticed you left Windows Vista and 8 off the list. :) That's okay, most people want to forget they ever existed.
One thing i noticed windows does better is managing multiple screens.
90% of the time when i undock/dock my laptop, the windows go back to the screens they were previously on
I can't for the life of me get discord to start on my secondary monitor.
But eh, you get used to it.
You could write a simple bash script that will launch it, wait for it to open, then use wmctrl to position the window wherever you want it.
The problem is that discord forces itself in front of every other window I currently use on the main monitor, twice, while it starts and auto updates. Manually dragging it away once it's open is the smaller annoyance compared to the distraction of having to switch back to my other application two times in a row. And I guess the only solution would be for it to start on the secondary monitor in the first place, so it could go and take center stage where it doesn't annoy and distract me.
My workflow now has my machine connected to my displays 24/7, but years ago I had a workflow where I would take my work machine home with me and bring it back in the morning and connect it to a dock. I got so fed up with all the windows piling into the 'main' monitor and not remembering their locations, that I wrote a script using some tool I can't remember now, that i'd set to a shortcut key, and it would throw the currently in focus window to the opposite monitor. Made it really fast to get to my working state where I wanted stuff. It wouldn't work today because it was exploiting features of the X window system, so I doubt it would work in Wayland.
Are you using GNOME? If so, I remember there being an extension for that.
I'm using mint with cinnamon.
I did try to look for a solution online, found other annoyed users with the same problem and no solution, and kinda gave up tbh.
Maybe I do have to switch at least the DE in order to solve this, but at the end of the day it's really just a small annoyance.
On KDE, kwin Window Rules will allow you to force windows onto screens, and a ton of other stuff. It’s one of the best features on Plasma that I now miss on Windows
You can just force it forever, or do “apply initially” so it just starts in a particular configuration - size, position, screen, virtual desktop, etc.
Sounds really useful. I guess there's no equivalent on mint though? Tried to search for one just now, but then again I'm still a noob and could be looking for the wrong thing.
Still, not the first time I've heard about the superiority of KDE plasma. Thanks for sharing.
Haven’t used Mint in many many years. I searched around - try this https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/extensions/view/111(if on Cinnamon)
For MATE, I found this https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/compiz-configuration/24928
I think there might also be some native settings options like “remember window positions” but that might be hit-or-miss
Yeah, the native functions works for most apps, but not discord unfortunately. But thanks alot for looking around! Will try your solution when I get back home tonight.
I find that restoring multiple Firefox windows is hard work, they appear randomly on one of my two screens. Also, when I open a program but move the mouse to the other screen while it's loading, the program sometimes follows the mouse and opens on the other screen.
I think I've had the opposite experience. I use W11 for my day-job with a laptop connected to 2 monitors. It could just be the archaic painful apps that my employer uses, but it routinely moves windows to different screens if I lock the system and return a few mins later. I set the taskbar on each screen to only show the windows that are open on each screen, but often a window will be open on one screen but the taskbar icon for it is on another. To work around that I developed a routine when I return from my breaks - I move every window to a different screen, then back again, and that 'fixes' it - it feels so stupid to have to do this on an OS that's built by one of the biggest companies on earth.
I think the equivalent issue on Linux might be due to Wayland and/or the desktop environment not keeping track of window positions, and there's ample developer 'debate' about if/how that gets handled.
Nope
Windows 7 era notepad
Windows 7 era paint
I used to work as a Windows application developer for a while and even though Windows itself never gave me the feeling of "oh, I'd really like to have this at home too" there was the C++ debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio that I remember as being remarkably good, to this day I haven't seen anything quite like it anywhere else.
Proper power management on my laptop is the biggest one.
There are many software applications that don't support Linux that I would like to use.
Which laptop? I have one that worked fine, but another I had to mess with. It's fine now.
In my case: cheap HP worked out of the box.
MSI gaming laptop needed a hook into the kernel and now McontrolCenter works perfect with it.
I miss windows 2000 professional
I really really really like MS Paint. I'm trying to like gimp, but I liked MS Paint a lot.
I also miss the smoothness of excel. I love libre office too but Microsoft just has more money to sand off the rough bits.
You might like Krita a little more. It's far more powerful than Paint, but its interface is very familiar.
Krita might be too complex for MS Paint users.
There's Kolour Paint which is more of clone of MS Paint.
KolourPaint is "clone" of MS Paint. GIMP is never meants as Paint alternative.
https://archive.org/details/mspaint_xp_version
Run it on wine :)
JS paint, open in browser, no install required :)
It's a perfect clone of oldschool ms paint.
The other day i couldn't play a multiplayer game with my friend. So i had to boot up windows and the xbox app to play a game on steam that "works" without the xbox app we swear. So after booting up windows after a few months now i can confidently say that i don't miss a thing
I had a fairly high end drawing pad no matter what I did, I could not get it to work properly on Linux. I needed up purchasing another and it worked perfectly fine with very little setup required. My work used to require Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere, but not long ago, maybe a year, they changed the workflow and I am no longer on the team that has to use those tools.
Otherwise, I've had very little issues, even with gaming. I think I've ran into 3, maybe 4, titles that wouldn't work on Linux, but they were kind of niche games. Most modern titles with even a moderately large audiences work just fine.
Only irfanview.
I always hated it on windows and used acdsee32 and then later x view when the former enshittified.
Turns out xnviewmp is on Linux as well. But if I want a shitty image viewer, I guess ristretto is fine.
I would really like this onedrove feature, where you can remove files (in my case large images from my camera) and still have them listed in the file structure in the explorer.
My SSD is not big enough for all data, so i really miss this feature with nextcloud and ubuntu.
Nextcloud does that on Windows but not Linux.
Just like you, I would like that feature on Linux too.
Tresorit has this. Works flawlessly on Linux. Not the cheapest solution though.
Playing games with kernel level anti-cheat. Some of them were pretty fun. I get why they don't support Linux, but it is still annoying.
Driver support for various old peripherals and nvidia cards
More generally: driver support on par with Windows. To be fair, Linux has come a long way and driver support is pretty good most of the time. But if you happen upon a piece of hardware that does have driver issues, you're still in a world of shit, with no or no easy fix.
Case in point, I have been battling with a weird S3 sleep bug on Lenovo Yoga L13 Gen 2 notebooks recently. I've come to the conclusion that it's not even a kernel error, but something in Lenovo's mainboard/BIOS firmware. Fix: write Lenovo an email and hope they'll fix the firmware of a 5-years-old just for desktop Linux use. (And, no, I'm not under the illusion that this is going to happen.)
GitExtensions
I have tried many git GUIs and none get close to it. It has the history, commit diff and branches overview in the same screen. It supports most git actions pretty well (rebasing, interactive rebasing, cherry picking, editing, etc) when right clicking a commit. You can select a commit or current changes and in the diff view select a line/lines and stage/unstage/revert only them. And much more. But it's only for windows.
I'm not a fan of the command line, I work much faster with gitextension. The best alternative I've found is vscode + GitGraph. This plugin is like a simpler version of gitextensions, but it's sadly abandoned.
If any of you know any close alternative please share!
Unfortunately the Linux version of gitextensions is really old and buggy. Bit thanks for the other links, I'll try some more
Right, supported version is only 2.x, further down running 5.x via wine it says "more broken than version 2.5".
Maybe you can give a console based workflow another shot? I ended up using only git + tig + whatever webui is provided (github, gitlab, forgejo, etc). lazygit is also nice, but I use it rarely.
The maze screensaver was kinda cool.
That and all the themes for 98 Plus
Clippy
The one thing that bugs me is having to look up whether periferals work with Linux. Still have odd issues with ones that work like Logitech mmo mouse I have to start Piper every time I log in pretty much to set the DPI. If I ever get around to buying something like a stream deck I'll have to tripple check it will play nice. Not the end of the world, just little annoyances.
The only other things I miss are COD and LoL, honestly though with how toxic the communities are or can be idk that I'm missing anything of value just haven't found anything that scratches the same itch yet.
The ability to update Xbox controllers, though when mine dies I'm probably switching to a similar priced high end brand with better joysticks.
And on that note, I also miss being able to assume anything I want to use or install is available for my operating system. I was looking a month or two ago at buying one of 8bitdo's pro 2 controllers, but it didn't support Linux. I never had to check if anything was windows compatible, everything either was or loudly said it wasn't.
Still not going back
They work out of the box, but the firmware updater is what's windows only (pro 2 and pro 3 at least). Not even a MacOS version of the firmware tool.
The larger issue I found with them was that hollow knight and silksong didn't capture the triggers properly on their Linux version making them unplayable. Also the games would crash once in a while. You have to run the windows version with proton to get a solid experience. I read it was due to outdated Linux input libraries used by unity or whatever game engine it uses.
Ok so no worse than Xbox controllers (and actually probably better if I learn to use wine). Good to know. I should've asked on here when I was looking
I probably should mention I'm on bazzite, so a lot of things just work out of the gate, not sure about other distros.
Fair enough. It was actually for my batocera, so maybe. My desktop is nobara, so things should be similar to bazzite
I mostly miss old Windows for nostalgia reasons. I've been macOS and now Linux for many years now.
Just having easy access to everything on the internet tbh. From games to apps, everything on windows is compatible. Hopefully that continues to change in favor of Linux.
The ability to upgrade my cameras' firmwares, as it requires specialized Win/Mac utilities. Other than that, nothing.
Nothing for me. All the games I care about run great, I'm much happier with my UX/UI using KDE Plasma, I'm very happy being able to use a bash shell in a terminal emulator of my choice, etc.
No. There used to be some nice things on Windows, but Windows 11 has thoroughly ruined them.
Not in the slightest. I also never used windows much tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not quite miss, but my fingers still type for the wrong programs in the start menu: task manager, notepad, etc.
Autocad
Didnt boot it in the last 12 months, maybe one day again for some games
Blue stuff. But with a proper distro choice, the blue feels better now and I no longer miss the blue of Windows.
I like power shell so much more than bash. Yes yes power shell can be used on linux I know.
- Audio configuration: I just install DRS in Win10 and it works, as does all of the GPU integration*. My DAW also just works, no fiddling with the buffer to get rid of the crackling or to get it recognized.
- FL Studio: It's not really FLS that I'm missing but rather I have a couple VSTs that absolutely won't work in Linux, plus a huge amount of patches I built in those instruments. However, Bitwig kicks so much ass that it's been worthwhile to try to rebuild those sounds inside Bitwig's Grid.
- Inventor and AutoCAD: I hate Autodesk with the fury of a 1000 suns, but I know these apps cold and have a huge library of parts and assemblies. FreeCAD just ain't there yet, and the new workbench menu has been an annoying learning curve. Inventor can handle enormous assemblies on my (previously running Win 10) laptop; FreeCAD still crashes when the object tree gets over a certain depth even on my burliest workstation. Assemblies in FreeCAD are a total mess too. I want to love FreeCAD and have great hopes for future versions.
- Suspend: one of my laptops won't suspend correctly. Sometimes it reboots, sometimes it suspends, sometimes it goes into a weird middle state running at full throttle but the screen is dark and the keyboard is unresponsive even to REIUSB. I just always shut it down now, no BFD.
And despite all that, I don't miss Windows at all.
*DRS was actually painless on Aurora Linux with my big workstation that only has a dGPU. All my computers with both iGPU and dGPU were more fiddly. I mostly blame Nvidia on this issue. I'm pretty sure the suspend problem is also an iGPU/dGPU thing and also blaming Nvidia for that.
I miss the comfort of having a single OS (not multiple distros to choose from), and a father who would reinstall the OS when I broke it too much again.
I miss the Macromedia Flash games, bringing games to school on a floppy disk labeled "homework" (then discovering I'd only brought the shortcut).
All of this is just nostalgia, and while I miss it, I'm happier now with my Linux Distro.
I've customised the desktop environment, broken the OS and reinstalled it myself (several times), and copied games to another device while forgetting to copy the folder containing my save files.
I guess some things stay the same.
I liked the Windows XP wallpaper. That's it.
no
Very little. If I'm being honest with myself, I have a slight preference for how DOS/Windows handled mounting drives. I've never been a huge fan of the UNIX directory structure anyway. I'd like to see some sort of filesystem hierarchy reform for a clearer format.
But of course, using Linux is a relief in most ways. There's no going back.
Really? With the drive letters? I've seen people who were running out of letters to use.
I assume you don't mean the path names, since that's more Unixy.
well working CJK input.. yes it still sucks a lot on Linux(/BSD)
i miss the ease of buying new hardware.
everything is optimized for windows and linux works on it too, but it's not optimized and something about getting less performance than paid for irks me (especially w battery life).
so every time i need to buy new hardware, i have to either spend weeks investigating potential purchases or i have to spend A LOT more money to buy from system76, tuxedo, etc.
i didn't do that this time around to learn what it's like to put linux on a windows laptop like i used to do back in the early 2000's and linux (of course) works, but its battery life is terrible compared to windows on the same laptop and my work macbook.
next time i'll buy from tuxedo.
I've not had this issue around batteries? Is there specific hardware you can give as an example? For me laptop batteries last longer and I've replaced Windows on a random laptop, not researched anything hardware wise.
Note, Windows has a "trick" of defaulting to "balanced" mode on Laptop installs (even when plugged in I've found), which basically means your hardware is throttled unless you turn it off but this trick does make the battery seem to last for ages. You're actually not using the rest of your hardware at full potential in this situation. Many users seem to be unaware of their power profile setting in Windows. Meanwhile, in my experience Linux installs tends to default to a performance power profile unless you specifically change it yourself (for example balanced or battery saver while unplugged etc) but again this may depend on your distro's default settings.
In KDE the power profiles are in the Settings > Power Management section and in the task tray. Same will exist on Gnome, and I know it exists on XFCE as I've used it's power profiles before too.
my current laptop is probably an extreme example since i get around 4 hours of battery life on default fedora 43 workstation, but almost 8 hours (DOUBLE) on windows 11.
i'm aware that i can get longer battery life if i experiment with the power settings or try different power utilities (ie powertop), but i've learned from experience that the battery life will never be the same as it is using windows.
i've also learned from experience that only open source firmware projects like (ie coreboot) can give you the battery performance that can rival windows and mac and i got to enjoy that by buying linux-first laptops vendors with open source firmware on it like system76, tuxedo, etc.
the most irritating thing about the laptop i have now is that it will charge from 5% to 80% in 50 minutes when it's running windows; but it takes almost 2 hours to do the same thing running fedora so i will probably buy from system76 again next time i need a new laptop. lol
Any AMD system that’s pretty new gets WAY worse battery life on Linux. AMD does some insane optimizations for windows. But it takes a few years before they make their way to Linux.
I think in the last 6 months there’s been some good work on this. But I have a similar AMD 6000 series system to them and I get almost twice the battery life on Linux.
Note, Windows has a "trick" of defaulting to "balanced" mode
That’s probably what most people want on a laptop on battery. Why would I want my CPU running full tilt for nothing? That’d largely why AMDs battery life on Linux is so bad.
Ableton
Look into Bitwig if you haven't, it is kind of ableton-like in that you can pretty much automate anything with anything else - fully cross platform as well.
I did try bigwig when it first came out but wasn't a fan at the time of the workflow and layout
Its pretty modular for workflow and layout in the contemporary. Would recommend checking out the trial version to see if it looks alright to you now, or otherwise just watching through some videos.
Isn't made by former team members of ableton as well?
I'm not sure actually, though it would make sense.
Windows 7.
Everytime i think i miss something from wndows, i find a more accesible free version on linux. So... no not really. Im nostalgic for xp but thats aout it and can make my linux machine look like xp v easily if i wanted
Voidtools Everything. Can't find anything near as good that supports thumbnails and batch file renaming. Fsearch is good, but it's not even close.
Filepaths in explorer.
Pubg and bf1.
Some game(s) I want to play - R6 Siege
Yes, AHK.
It was amazing, and the alternatives aren't the same :/
Much better game compatibility and not having to worry if a game will work or not. Although in some ways it's part of the fun.
Protondb?
There is proton and protondb which are great tools I use all the time, just not as good as not having to worry about compatibility at all.
Same here. I've had no luck with proton. It's gotten to the point where if it doesn't run natively on Linux, I won't buy it.
Proton has worked really well for me, 90% of my games just work. But the final 10% dont and that is something I miss.
Not anything concrete. Windows is kind of nostalgic for me as I only used it as a young child. But there's not a specific "I wish X was on Linux".
None. I’ve been windows free for over 3 years. Had to give up some software for alternatives. Switching from Lightroom to Darkroom wasn’t difficult, though it’s not as polished.
I missed not having to think about Samba to share a drive with a Windows machine.
On the other hand, I was rightly pointed to better alternatives for my use-case, so perhaps the learning will make the pain worth it?
Affinity: I’ve tried and tried and tried with GIMP and it just doesn’t do it for me.
Microsoft Flight Simulator: X-plane yes. But MSFS is just stellar good, with BeyondATC.
Excel: Gsuite sheets - yuck, contributing my info to Google. Libre Calc. Please, they are 10 years behind. No proper table support, no MAP, no spill (yes, array formulas sort of work), etc etc. but chiefly: So slow compared to Excel and Gsuite.
That’s it.
If it's any consolation, LibreOffice Calc have now merged Table Support for the next release, 13 years after it was requested. (Link)
I miss the periodical enshittification.
Have you tried Ubuntu?
Yeah. Until the major enshittification with the name of Unity or whatever it was called after Gnome 2.
And now the last enshittification, fucking persistent snaps, in the 'buntu family removed me from Kubuntu to Arch family.
And don't get me wrong, snaps have their place. I had one packet I needed from snap and wanted to have everything else from ppa repositories like the normal way. And then the shit started to change my FF to snap. No matter what I did, prioritize and all. No awail.
Yeah. Been through the buntu's and gave them a lot of chances. Kubuntu was really good all the way to 25.04.
I have a telescope mount and an AV processor that require Windows 10, wine won't work with either one. The Windows was stripped down using Atlas though. I only boot it once every few months and I get no pop ups or notifications at all, it's perfect.
Winamp.
Actually no, Audacious player can load old Winamp skins.
But does Audacious whip the llama's ass?
No. It whips the GNUs ass...
The object selection tools in lightroom are pretty amazing, being able to choose select subject on the menu and it just selects the ducks or people or whatever pretty much perfectly each time to make your mask is pretty bonkers. It saves so much time over trying to select an object in dark table.
I really like dark table, I actually prefer the way it stacks modules vs. lightroom, and this is just for complex object selection, I can select the sky or background or whatever pretty simply in dark table.
Oh and dark table does not support DNG files. My workflow using PureRAW outputs compressed DNG files and Darktable will not support them currently. Sure I can go other routes for my export but the smaller size of a compressed DNG is very attractive when I can be working with about 100 * 40megapixel images.
PureRAW can sort of be duplicated by dark table, but again its not quite as good, doesnt quite have the same list of lens for correction/denoise capability. I shoot wildlife a lot and high ISO is a factor of life. Its not that dark table is bad at this its just PureRAW is very good at removing that noise and sharpening.
So lightroom and PureRAW forces me to have either windows or macos, and a shitty subscription for the former.
directory opus, that's the main one for me
It was originally for the Amiga. I was surprised to see it live and kicking for Windows.
Midnight commander might be your replacement, depending on how modern opus you're used to.
There's Worker as well
I'm getting used to Inkscape, but as much as I do not like Adobe as a company, I do miss Illustrator. My workflow speed has taken a bit of a hit, but overall, with all other things Linux vs Windows considered, I have no regrets on switching to Linux completely.
Ironically I miss Affinity. But se la vie.
I'm on Fedora, so ironically in experiencing more frequent updates and rebooting than on Windows. I simply changed the reminder frequency. Due to the nature of Fedora being on the leading edge, I do sometimes experience a glitch here and there but nothing yet that has turned my system unstable.
Most of my hardware is compatible, except my Blue Yeti needs unplugged and reconnected after every reboot.
I still have a laptop on Windows 11 and I miss Linux when I use it. I'm have to try and get Linux running on that someday, but hardware support is a little more iffy.
I don't miss any software. I had to give up Adobe Lightroom, but that felt more like leaving an abusive relationship. I went to Digikam and she's been treating me with respect. I also use Rawtherapy, which is great but has a learning curve.
So I'm conclusion: if your hardware is supported and you're not opposed to learning new software I don't think you'll miss it. I haven't.
The feeling of being a hacker who outsmarted a huge corporation, after activating Windows 95 with the FCKGW license key (I was 12).
Bluescreens and daily reboots and satisfactory in vr
The shameless integration of free code a la Bind.
Remote Desktop to my machine doesn’t work as nicely as windows. It doesn’t auto resize the session I connect to.
An IME.
I'm sure it's possible to get it to work, but all I found the one time I tried to set it up was solutions that completely replace my existing keyboard, which is an issue because I use a custom layout. I tried making something work but only succeeded in somehow breaking everything (I forgot how I fixed it but I eventually did)
Arch with KDE btw if anyone happens to have the solution
Not really. At least nothing I deeply miss. 99% is absolutely perfect for my usage.
Maybe when it comes to hardware specific software, there may not be a linux-version of it. But this can only be a matter of time.
I haven't used Windows, other than very brief encounters during work, for about 20 years. I don't even know what I'd be missing. I'd say it used to be gaming, but Valve have fixed that problem now. In the now rare occasions I need to play games that don't work on Linux, or have a multiplayer/anti-cheat component, I'll use my PS5.
If someone could help me figure out how to get my monitor res to be remembered when waking from sleep in Wayland, that’d be a dream.
My theory is that it forgets the EDID, since every time I restart the monitor and trigger a negotiation it fixes the resolution from 640x480 to native.
The only reason I'm hanging onto Windows at the moment is Apple Music
Nope.
Maybe there is a easy solution but i miss the pirated games. On steam steam games are working perfectly but i have lot of issues with fitgirl repacks
A few days before time change (DST) windows would put a little reminder in the calendar widget on the task bar. I always thought that was a really nice feature. Unfortunately, no other operating system does that (as far as I know).
Linux
Copilot
Inferior.
Srsly tho... Garmin. My stupid gps need windows which means keeping a win 10 vm on my proxmox to fire it up and update using their dumb software . I paid for lifetime maps and I'm going to get them, damn it.
Yes I miss Share x video capture and paint.net, their Linux counterparts aren't as strong
Wait a minute, lemme think...
...
Nope, got nothing.