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We love to praise linux constantly and tell everyone to change to it (they should) but what are your biggest annoyances ?

Mine would be, installing software (made even more complex by flatpaks being added, among the 5 other ways there already were to install software) and probably wifi power management issues.

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Poor VR support. I’d probably switch if it ever becomes stable.

[–] brap@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For some reason some Steam games invert my mouse wheel direction but don’t when ran in windows and I can’t figure out a per-application toggle for it.

Why things decided to try and undo 30 years of muscle memory I don’t know.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thats bizarre, does it happen on every mouse you plug in?

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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I hate that smb is still the standard lan filesharing protocol. I used nfs once and it kinda sucked. I just want smb but without mangled filenames. Basically I hate when I have a substandard experience because of Microsoft.

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[–] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Lack of a single standard way of installing and removing software.

Some software on my computer comes from APT, some are installed using deb file, some from Flatpak, some from Snap, some are AppImages, some are installed by a random shell script, some are Progressive Web Apps and finally some have custom installers (like Jetbrains). If I want to uninstall an app, I often don't know where to even look.

All of that happens despite Linux Mint (the distro I'm using) have an app for installing software. It makes things a little easier, but still doesn't cover every possible option.

[–] Arcka@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago

This is similar on mac and windows. Some software is available in the built-in package management (aka store). Some are installed from msi or dmg files. Some are portable executables. Some are PWA. Some are via command line utilities like homebrew and chocolatey.

No workstation OS has every possible option in one place.

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[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Unreproducible, random bugs that can be temporarily solved by repeating your actions a bunch of times until it works. Drives me nuts, and they show up all over the place.

There are always problems with the global menu widget on Plasma. And recently it has been refusing to work as a single button, instead I have to switch to showing all options as separate buttons which looks terrible with my panel setup.

Also applications making packages that could have easily been optional, required, just because users will think the app has broken functionality otherwise. KDE Plasma handles this best by replacing setting pages in the setting app with a note with instructions and showing normal warnings in other apps.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Mostly video related.

YouTube videos are hella pixelated and sometimes the audio de syncs.

Also the active blocking some companies do with DRM. Things like competitive online games and some streaming services like Peacock.

Just the absolute resistance a lot of developers have.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

You are still rolling the dice whenever you really need some specific specialized proprietary software. Especially if you need to get it running ASAP and without major issues. It might work out of the box with wine, or it might not. You just don't know and that

Gaming is better, but it's still gaming, just toys.

[–] jondur@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I would love to figure out how to make the back and forward buttons on my super basic logitech mouse work. Last I looked, I had to install some mouse configuration app and do some manual stuff to program the buttons. I gave up.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What distro? Mine work out of the box without any configuring.

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

No SIGINFO. Barbaric.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Systemd.

Only because I've used something else - anything else - as an integrator and packager, and everything else is more stable, more consistent, more reliable and more isolated.

This thing is looking for sploits.

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