cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
Been on it permanently for years now. Only complaint is that I found XFS to be better than BTRFS, though most people probably wouldn’t notice.
Only other “complaint” is Fedora doesn’t have a lot of support for embedded arm devices, so you’re on your own if you want an RPM style distro on something like an Orange Pi.
In my Linux mint I downgraded to playing only 1080p because 4k is very laggy and filled with artifacts.
I have a mini optiplex 7070 with 32GB of ram, Intel processor (not a powerful one).but in windows 11 I could play 4k content with no issue.
Mouse sharing, but I also failed to set it up on my Mac.
Mine is pretty ridiculous, but if solved the presentation would improve tenfold:
The booting process, specifically the different screens.
Screen 1: select boot Screen 2: some text Screen 3: brief logo Screen 4: black Screen 5: login Screen 6: black/splash Screen 7: desktop
Some of these could be consolidated.
I’m aware that this depends on the distro, but it still looks ugly
At work, they keep using windows for some reason. Tried telling them “apt get anything other than this” but it didn’t take 🤷♂️
Scrivener. Everything else has a substitute or workaround that is easily implemented by a non programmer. I own both the Apple and Windows forms of the program.
I miss notepad++ so much. I miss musicbee so much.
Oh and I miss TagScanner so much too.
I miss musicbee so much dude, tauon is great but it still isnt the same
Notepadqq or Kate are supposed to be pretty good replacements!
I’m not sure why but SDL wants to change to sdlcompat and this is a breaking change for another application I’m running and I don’t know why this package change is needed when I just keep hitting no each time and everything works as expected
This is why I think we shouldn’t recommend any (mutable) ArchLinux distro to gamers who come fresh from Windows. Including CachyOS.
Not implying you are one, IDK your experience level, but these kinds of prompts being shown to the user about packaging are a core feature of ArchLinux. This can happen anytime you update an Arch-based system.
Leaving Standby. Can’t count the times I’ve opened my laptop to just see a black screen. Hard reset was the only option
I had the same issue on my Thinkpad p14s 5th gen. UEFI upgrade fixed it for me.
My pain points with Fedora: signed sdboot and anaconda. Anaconda in particular looks like an unmaintainable mess that needs to be replaced.
This issue did not affect my previous laptop. However, under heavy load, my current laptop sometimes freezes and even REISUB sometimes failed to work. The only way is to force power off via button.
This persisted across all distros from Debian based to Fedora to current Void.
Other times, laptop will stutter to a near halt post some complex process and even after said process(like a Handbrake task) is closed, continues to act as if the resources were never freed.
I only used Windows 11 for a single month b/w 2016- current (other wise, distro hopping was default) and it was stable. I can’t pin point the actual root cause (driver issues, kernel level problem) but still persist with Linux (Windows has its own stuff of problems that we all are aware).
The only real thing that’s consistently annoying for me is UI scaling on high-DPI displays. Between the DE, GTK, and QT all needing different settings that all act differently.
But I guess generally once you get it set it’s mostly fine.
A handful of sites that decide because I’m on Linux, I must be a bot and I’m blocked from opening sites.
Linux kernel or distros?
Assuming distros, my pain point is that it is not popular. For Linux to actually take over, UI/UX for everything without a single touch of CLI (akin to Windows and Mac OS) needs to be normalised. And everything just needs to work (see LTT), be snappy/instant (looking at you file browsers, Firefox, etc.), and use established behavioural norms within Windows and Mac (looking at you middle click paste, and it not being a universal scroll) as basics. Just give any distro to any Asian population. They won’t even be able to figure out how to type their own language as if they are exiting Vim.
For Linux to actually take over, UI/UX for everything without a single touch of CLI needs to be normalised. And everything just needs to work, be snappy/instant, and use established behavioural norms as basics.
I wish an OS like this existed.
Mac OS is pretty close. But not everything is a Mac 🙃
There are some games I sometimes play that don’t work. Fortnite, Infinity Nikki, maybe Overwatch.
I also like using One Drive for syncing around and accessing files and it works well with my NAS. I have not really got it working at all in Linux.
On my laptop, when not connected to my home network, the file browser (I tried several) hangs terribly terribly bad when opening it because it can’t find the network drives in my fstab file. It was bad enough I just took them out and manually browse to the folders if I need to by IP.
I really like Affinity Photo and have a paid copy from before it went free. I can’t get it working in Limux on my laptop. I absolutely HATE GIMP, do not sughest GIMP. The UI has been dog shit for forever (I have tried using it off and on for ages now, like, decades, if its been around that long). Its garbage.
