Uh, um... I do not like how I have to install microsoft fonts seperately to have times new roman on my resume?
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Total lack of stability, not in "crashing programs" but in the entire idea of "throw it all out and start over" that seems to 100% infest every single Linux developer every few years.
Not to mention the total loss of every single bit of UNIX philosophy over the years.
"Everything's a file." ? Not according to Linux, not any more.
All the various *ctls necessary to run and inspect your system have completely gotten out of control.
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I hate that nobody recognizes Linux as a legit OS. But that is the same with many FOSS projects like LibreOffice. The format is not recognized in a lot of places, which is insane. Microsoft really have their marketing prefected
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It is not Linux itself but:
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I dislike when something goes wrong with a program and the documentation is not clear on how to fix it. But I do not complain because it is understandable when developers write documentation they have to choose who's hand to hold, if they choose to help everyone then the documentation can get long and perhaps redundant.
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When one is a beginner and installs a distribution for the first time one can get scared by the splash screen showing errors which are 99% of the time safe to ignore (e.g showing that a device was not found). I know its important for developers and advanced users to know all this info but it can make beginners feel so damn scared (like me).
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Naming, like in the general sense, it seems like many software have some ridiculous names (dolphin, ncmpcpp, gimp, foot, gnome). Very subjective, I know, but in the end I love and hate these names.
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Bluetooth... yeah.
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All the different window top bars/UI elements not lining up.. especially for stuff that has nothing up there.. extra annoying when disabling window decorations don't disable them
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Hibernation should really soon work out of the box with Secure Boot on. Afaik chromeos was looking into that
Also paranoid people saying that e.g. all TPMs are made by the devil and will spy you to death lol
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non copyleft software in general1
Same reason as the rest of the world: too complicated to use. Also pretty much all the DEs are ugly and dated, save for GNOME, in my opinion.
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I hate that I've got to the point that if something goes wrong, I know it's 99.9% user error and can't blame anyone else.
Buy an Nvidia graphics, you can blame it then. Accidentally erased your disk with dd? Fuck Nvidia!
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Honestly, not much.
The first would be that the webcam in my work laptop goes in and out of working pretty regularly. It happens to the whole team so I know it’s not just mine. I end up using an external one pretty regularly. Mostly I’m annoyed at Dell for not providing proper driver support.
The second is that there are a very small number of applications that I occasionally use where I need to fire up a VM. But even that is more of I’m annoyed at the organization that forces me to use an obsolete proprietary file format once a quarter.
I miss executable files being as easy as on windows
Appimages are the equivalent and seamless in my experience
Nothing to hate... some forums have turned pretty caustic but other than that, the software and the community are awesome
Re Flatpaks, I did not like them so I do not use them.. not need to hate a thing I have barely any interaction with, choosing not to use them has not limited me at all
Never had wifi power management issues either (15 years on Linux)
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No easy/simple kiosk mode. One of the very few things Windows does well, you can turn any computer into a kiosk in less than 5 minutes.
With Linux, you have to jank a bunch of stuff together and it's a huge pain.
I hate being stuck in Dependency Hell thag happens sometimes when compiling programs, and other times when some vital hardware pieces like monitors, ethernet, sound don't appear to work.
It takes me an hour or more to get them working again, and makes me want to delete everything and reinstall the OS from scratch.
Excessive jargon, tends to push away people who didn't take classes in computer engineering or grow up using unix. Mounting of drives, incomprehensible error or status messages or even "sudo".