Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.
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Yeah. Ive managed to make it work now, but when I was starting off with installing Linux, my audio was broken and all sorts of other basic functions were broken. Headphones would work but laptop speakers wouldn’t. I had to restart all over several times after already installing everything I needed, just because some stupid niche (but important) thing was broken. Never had these issues when doing fresh installs of windows. I’m still very much on the “team” of Linux though, I just hope that it becomes a large enough part of the market that drivers for hardware are faster to come out.
Is it perfect? No. It does have bugs and issues which can be hard to track down. But it is free, respects my privacy, respects my choices, doesn’t use dark patterns, doesn’t contain ads, has lots of options to configure it, it’s super fast… so I love it.
I’m going to make the switch but I find the sheer number of distros overwhelming. I only know unbunto, but everyone says it’s shit. Just gotta do research.
Hardware acceleration sometimes makes videos play at low frame rates.
But overall much better than every other OS I’ve tried
And tgstd only because manufacturers are assholes with their support for open source drivers
Not on the kernel itself, just a minor bug that got fixed in the next release but could still choose the older kernel until then. OOM sounds like a bad idea when running out of memory - let the user chose what program to stop and handle it gracefully. Picking random process is bad. Others? DRM video at 1080p does not work on raspberry pi and it is not Linux fault really. Transition between X11 and Wayland took a long time to happen. Needed it earlier. Like before Ubuntu MIR. What impressed me is Linux and live cd. It is golden. Be able to surf the web while installing or just troubleshooting. Tiling Windows Manager and you can do whatever you want and customization.
Yes. Bluetooth has never worked correctly for me, NEVER.
Across multiple distros and multiple adapters, I’ve gotten various problems. Right now on NixOS, reconnecting a peripheral never works, I get an error that
br-create-socketfailed, and the only solutions are to restart the computer or forget and re-pair the device. I’ve gotten this error on two completely different Bluetooth adapters.My Bluetooth works perfectly on Windows. I don’t know why Linux is so finnicky about it.
Is it a bluetooth issue itself, or an issue with the drivers for that particular bluetooth hardware. Imperfect drivers has always been an issue under Linux, and will remain an issue as long as Windows has over 90% market share.
If you’re not disappointed at something with Linux, you’re lying to yourself.
And I love Linux and wouldn’t use anything but.
I’m disappointed by the number of packages that aren’t signed by developers.
Or that go with less secure package managers like flatpak instead of just working with Debian devs to add it to the official repos, because apt is actually secure.
Overall Linux has shifted over the past 10 years to be more of a dangerous place to download software. So more like Windows and Apple.
Trying to find the path of a mounted USB stick is painful as well. Is it at /mnt, /media or /run? Who the fuck knows.
At least with windows you just have drive letters
If we’re comparing Linux to Windows, then it should be noted there’s Plasma and Gnome that will auto-detect any USB stick in existence and show you its path in the GUI.
Oh yeah, totally, but when using the terminal it’s a pain
Does
lsblknot work? I checked on my machine and it shows the correct path, assuming you know your stick issdbor whatever. Something likelsblk -o MODEL,MOUNTPOINTis (generally) a bit more clear but admittedly getting into the ‘pain’ territory.
Oh god this one, I never understood why mounting drives in Linux needs to be so convoluted. It’s the whole reason my NAS is running on LTSC. Adding drives to my NAS under windows is literally plug and play where as with linux theres always some bullshit.
I have neither the time nor the inclination these days to troubleshoot that bullshit.
No.
I’ve only even been disappointed at myself.
And Nvidia.
Not being able to use middle click as a scroll tool. For an OS that’s supposed to be about user choice, this option is stupidly baked into the depths of the kernel.
It’s because X-Window, the original Unix (and thus Linux) desktop system, supported 3 button mice WAY before Windoze did. It used it for the clipboard paste operation; you highlight some text in one window, and it’s immediately put on the clipboard; then when you middle-click, it’s pasted into whichever window is under the mouse pointer. Most old hand Linux and Unix users like this behaviour.
It’s been optional, and configurable for a long time. It’s mainly controlled by the receiving window’s configuration, but you can set it globally to do just about anything supported by your version of X-Window, including to scrolling. It’s been like this since about the late 1990’s, but it’s just not the default behaviour, probably because for much of that time, most Linux users preferred the X-Window behaviour.
‘Kernel’ is probably the wrong term to use. ‘Not easily user accessible setting’ might be more accurate.
but you can set it globally to do just about anything supported by your version of X-Window, including to scrolling
I’m not aware of any way to get Windows-style autoscroll on any distro without a lot of hacking. That was my takeaway from when I spent several hours researching this a year ago.
It’s not a kernel thing, more like a libinput thing. Libinput has an option to make it autoscroll, and if you’re on KDE, you can find the setting under mouse settings.
Libinput allows you to activate omnidirectional scrolling by holding the middle mouse down, which is not the same behaviour as windows / (mac?) . It’s confusing since both features have the same name.
What’s the behaviour on windows?
Click to toggle enter / exit vertical scroll mode. While in that mode, moving the mouse up or down from the original position will scroll in that direction, speed depending on the amount of offset.
I’m now completely free from Windows in my personal life. After running Linux on my notebook for years and occasionally dual-booting on my Main PC, I purged the Windows partitions back in March and switched over to Bazzite. Everything works like a charm - with Firefox being the only exception. I can’t get the new profile manager to work in the flatpak version or native via rpm-ostree. I have a workaround using distroshelf, which is not perfect (e.g. not being recognised as a browser by the “Webapps” application) I never had any problem with this feature on my Notebook (EndeavourOS). Anyone with similar experiences?
With Linux itself or with the broader realm of ‘Linux software’?
By itself, Linux is a fantastic family of operating systems. Has never failed me and probably never will. At least not until I care enough about differences in userland handling in Linux vs FreeBSD, for instance. And even then, I might just switch out of preference, and not because one or the other disappointed me.
As for broader Linux software, or GNU software, or just FOSS in general - by far the biggest potential issue is probably systemd, and it’s still meaningless for the vast majority of users. Other than that, my personal biggest issue was Hyprland breaking completely after updating. But it’s not a super major issue, because I can just use Plasma instead.
I’ve definitely had consistently less issues with dev stuff on linux, but Bluetooth is consistently lacking.
And I don’t know if I’d be able to get wifi drivers working on this laptop again if I had to reinstall
The worst annoyances of Linux are nothing compared to basic use of Windows or MacOS.
