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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss (discuss.online)

submitted 2 days ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] bugbearownsyou@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

For several years I daily drove PopOS and it was good. I liked their window management. It was unstable, especially with waking from sleep, which led to filesystem corruption sometimes, but timeshift always bailed me out.

Then I tried the Comic beta and loved the paradigm but it was even less stable.

Then I found Bread on Penguins on YouTube and got interested in how Steam was putting all this work into gaming on Linux, and how Wayland was supposed to be so much better for gaming.

So I tried Arch, but it was A LOT. The games did not run well. I feared I was missing a lot of crucial components.

I found the Asus RoG Linux site and switched to Cosmic+CachyOS. The games ran better if on the laptop screen only but Cosmic was still unstable.

I tried Niri but that created a ton of flickering when two monitors were plugged on, which is my typical setup.

I played around with nvidia drivers more as I had been doing the entire time but this time fucked my system up and my new setup of time shift didn't save me.

So I clean installed CachyOS on Gnome. The games still run well enough on the laptop only. Two monitors works and is stable but the framerate is low in general and my mouse is choppy. I had to spend hours rewriting scripts because Gnome isn't wlroots based and so doesn't support fuzzel/rofi/et al. When waking from sleep it will fall back asleep like 4 times before staying up, so I've turned sleep off.

I feel pretty exhausted and defeated in all honesty.