Linux

Games with anti-cheat don’t work.

Secureboot doesn’t like GRUB.

Solidworks doesn’t run natively on linux, neither does my Sketchup Pro program.

SteamVR doesn’t run well on linux

What does work that I use regularly? My older DVD drives work fine, ripping my music and dvd/blu-rays works well and seamlessly with multiple instances of the programs running simultaneously. The typical FOSS stuff I use is a no-brainer, from Gimp to Blender to Libreoffice.

But for the stuff I work with most and the games I play most often? It just doesn’t work well or at all.

Games not capturing the mouse in bordeless window. Helldivers 2 is super frustrating to play On Fedora 42

Power management could still be a lot better for Intel laptops (though admittedly over the past decade it's come a VERY long way). On my Chromebook running Ubuntu the powersave governor noticably stutters as it decides whether to boost the clocks, but all the other governors significantly hurt battery life. Somehow Windows managed to solve this battery problem with all its bloat, and Chromeos also has while also ultimately running Linux under the hood. Laptops could really benefit from the same level of driver maturity as desktop platforms.

I'd also point out touchpad gesture support as a secondary point which is lacking. I love that pixel perfect scrolling and gestures are integrated into many desktop environments now, but they lack configuration for sensitivity and in some cases leave it to the applications themselves to control. Scrolling in Chrome is way too fast and Firefox way too slow for my trackpad, but unlike the cursor speed/acceleration, there is no setting to adjust the sensitivity of pixel perfect scrolling in supported applications.

My current no. 1 pain point is Remote Desktop on KDE Plasma Wayland.
The only functional one is Sunshine and Moonlight, and while they're great, they're gaming focused. Trying to do productivity work from my phone is just not feasible, not to say the bandwidth usage if I'm on mobile data.

Their RDP server is supposedly working already but I never managed to get anything more than a black screen on the clients.

I spent many hours trying to find a fix for stuttering wireless (2.4 ghz) audio

I believe i managed it

But .. maybe not

Audio devices that are not prioritized or set to sleep is stupid. Stuttering audio or audio that cuts out is frustrating. Very frustrating.

Thats the biggest issue i have with linux.

kwin_wayland is currently using 2125Mb VRAM and 6268Mb GTT.

As a daily driver for "normies", Linux is fine. Browser, email client, office apps, all good. I can use Prusa Slicer and Blender, which covers all my 3D printing needs.

There is no real image editor anywhere close to Photoshop, and no, GiMP isn't it. I have to use Affinity via wine. It works but I'd prefer a native solution. I need ML object recognition, layers with layer effects (stroke outline, drop shadow), easy text Input and manipulation (font size, height, width etc). Affinity can do it. Photoshop does it better, but I am no longer willing to pay Adobe. Screw subscription software.

For my RAW images, I am using Rawtherapee which I am much more comfortable with than with Darktable.

Audio is a mess. To have low latency in my DAW (Reaper Linux Version), I have to launch it via the command line using pw-jack reaper, otherwise it won't recognize the audio device or uses ALSA or Pulseaudio both of which have way more latency than JACK. I have bought a couple of VST plugins on Windows, some work via yabridge and again wine, some work in part but have no UI. others don't work at all and I am out of ideas.

For video editing, I use Davinci Resolve Studio (which I paid for), but the experience on Linux lacks behind Windows and it doesn't support the same codecs (no AAC audio, making a lot of my archive footage useless unless I transcode everything).

My Framework 13 (AMD 7040) laptop has a fingerprint scanner. No dice getting it to work (I'm running CachyOS). Davinci Resolve refuses to work on the AMD integrated GPU (experience above is from desktop PC with Nvidia GPU).

And the session saving feature in KDE Plasma on CachyOS is inconsistent. I set it to only save a session when actively telling to do so, I don't do it and it still opens up 5 apps I didn't even have open last time.

Steam doesn't want to autostart minimized, it goes front and center on boot. Annoying.

Those are my current gripes as a Linux user. Otherwise, all peachy.

Edit: well not exactly. My desktop PC has a Gigabyte motherboard and in order to recognize the fans attached to it I had to grab an I87 community made driver. Temp sensors etc are also reporting less to Linux than to Windows (if you compare what you can read out in HWinfo to GNOME Vitals or the like, it's laughably little).

I have used Parsec for remote desktop. They have a Linux client but it doesn't support hosting. Which sucks. Will look for another remote desktop solution.

I have a DJI drone. Haven't yet tried running DJI Assistant to do firmware updates etc. Might go well might be horrible. Anyone with experience here?

I use Backblaze on my Windows install for off site backup purposes. They don't have a Linux client for the consumer tier and I don't want to pay enterprise grade money as a consumer. Maybe via wine? Need to find out.

Overall the main problem with Linux is that almost nothing outside of a very small set of use cases works without hours, day, weeks of tinkering. Which would be fine for one or two things, but it's just spoo much.

Energy management is the part that still complicates things most for me. Rfkill not being managed correctly. Machines that suspend but don't hibernate, or that hibernate but don't suspend. Laptops that de-suspend during transport. Batteries that overdrain during suspend. Bluetooth. And most annoying of all, NVidia (insert Torvalds iconic scene).

I use a TV as my monitor which only has HDMI inputs in combination with an AMD card. No HDMI 2.1 thanks to the HDMI Forum. Fuck the HDMI Forum.

Audio output over HDMI breaks when the PC goes to sleep. Need to shut the PC down to make it work again. Restarting it doesnt solve the issue.

Here and there some websites break slightly more often on Linux compared to Windows. Both with Firefox.

VR already was a troubleshooting sinkhole on Windows. On Linux its a bit worse. BUT it gets better every month and i'm amazed how well it already works tbh.

KDE doesnt let me resize the PIP window of Firefox on all of its sides. I heavily use this feature on a daily basis. I got used to it. But it was paaaaaiiiin the first few weeks.

Sometimes something breaks and CachyOS just doesnt want to shut down and i need to get the pillow to physically kill the PC.

I atleast had more hard system crashes than on Windows. Sometimes i feel like just the RAM fills up and in 70% of times only a reset helps. On the other hand killing rogue programs which dont want to hand me back the desktop like on windows arent an issue at all anymore.

Button mappings on my g27 racing wheel are out of order with seemingly no fix. Its a really minor issue. But still...

The documentation for certain things is still just utter ass. Sometimes i read through the most technically complex official docs ever for an hour without finding my answer. Then give up and ask in forum/chat/discord and its like: oh yeah just type "yorking" and if your done "exit". Which wasnt mentioned once anywhere else.

Anything else was just getting used to a new OS and learning new things. Which can be painful but isnt a Linux issue.

Overall super happy. Its a pretty big post but i could write a book series with my Windows issues...

I wouldn’t call myself an “avid” user but I have been using it for about 6 years.

My pain points would be the current driver support on new laptops. Nothing they can do but it’s always been a pain in the ass to encounter some broken ACPI kernel implementation that for example doesn’t call a required Microsoft Modern Standby extension or fails to bring a computer out of suspend.

My other issue isn’t really an issue, but installers need to have you enter all information and then just walk away. None of “do you want to participate in the package survey” after a super lengthy download. Debian is the worst of these offenders and I can’t believe no one on their team has ever tried to fix it in the years it has been around.

I switched to Bazzite from Spectre Ghost Win 10 about 6 months ago.

The first problem i had, which was entirely my own doing, was that no games would work from Steam. Turns out, you can't run steam games from an NTFS hard drive, so reformatted and reinstalled.

Only two games that didn't work:

Planetary Annihilation, has problems with Wayland, fixable.

Fallout 4, single digit frame rate and input lag. Switched over to New Vegas rather than try and fight FO4.

Edit: I tried another distro before Bazzite, couldn't get Wi-Fi card to work, f-ing Intel...

T480s fingerprint reader has been inconsistent trying to log in when waking from sleep. It was working for months after I followed the instructions in the archwiki. I'll eventually have to dig into the logs to see why it only works sometimes.

Also I wish KDE night light integrated monitor brightness.

Is this feedback for devs?

My 144hz monitor randomly runs at 60hz with no way of changing it apart from restarting several times.

I have a TV connected in addition to my monitor (for lazy gaming or watching series), but this causes various small but annoying problems. I can't unlock my PC without moving the mouse over to my monitor, which invariably spawns on the TV, and I have to guess how to move it over (left/right alignment is also inconsistent). It also turns the mouse pointer massive on the monitor, presumably because the TV has a higher resolution. Despite marking the monitor as the main display, more than half of my applications launch on the TV. Except the ones I actually want there, of course. If my tv is off before booting is complete, and I turn it on later, my background disappears, and sound is routed to the terrible built-in monitor speakers instead of either the tv audio I use while it's on, or the actually good headphones I use when it's not.

At some point my kernel randomly broke because the driver of my WiFi adapter was somehow incompatible. It was a massive pain to figure out the problem and fix it.

As a causal user these are definitely points that came out worse than the competition functionality-wise, and since most of the general public will not opt for a lesser experience for the sake of idealism, this type of issue probably prevents other people who just want to use their PCs from switching.

Edit: it was also a massive pain to set up a Korean keyboard layout, in Windows you just select it and you're done. In Ubuntu, you do the same and nothing changes. I don't even remember what it was that actually fixed it, but I tried a lot of guides that didn't work.

I can't figure out how to run game mods that are arbitrary .exe programs that are meant to hook into a running game. Specifically, otis_inf camera tools with, for example, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. I've tried protontricks but its so damn complicated and poorly documented I don't really know how.

1. I made a post the other day how Fedora KDE doesn't render CJK fonts properly. MPV also wasn't rendering fonts properly so I had to manually add a font in mpv.conf.

2. When I installed Fedora KDE, there was a button to enable third party repos. It actually worked but it only enables NVIDIA and Steam repos so I had to go over to rpmfusion to get the ones for non-free ffmpeg.

3. ~~I have a wireless pen tablet from XP Pen and I need to close and open the XP Pen app to get it to connect every time. It doesn't seem to "wake" automatically whenever I turn my tablet on.~~ (nvm, using OpenTabletDriver instead fixes it)

4. On Fedora, installing DaVinci Resolve seems tricky. Don't know if I should use davincibox or davinci-helper. (edit: ended up using davincibox and it's pretty ok so far)

This is my first time using Fedora and KDE on my desktop. It's also been 2 years since I last used Linux on bare metal.

Backing up my BTRFS file system. I'm on day two of reading the docs, and I still feel like I have tenuous grasp of the ins and outs. To be clear I've used ext4 and timeshift for years with absolutely no problem at all. I'm just looking to make generic backups of my system once a month(most the time I do it manually), and I feel BTRFS is overkill for what I need. I also feel like I'm not far away from it "clicking". Guess we'll see, I still don't ever see myself leaving Linux, but I may switch back to ext4.

I haven't managed to get HDR monitors nor my VR headset to work, and I've already spent way more time debugging it in Linux than I ever had to in Windows.

I want Autokey back. It doesn't work in Wayland and I haven't really found a solution that does that feels worth the bother.

I wish my Mint wouldn’t freeze so hard it blocks out all input.

When the update process feel so perilous that I pray every time that my system reboots to the desktop safely, because the pain of troubleshooting the issue for 4 or more hours still haunts me (Nobara linux).

And I'm not new to linux, but because it works as expected 95% of the time, that 5% where it doesn't work stands out so much more.

I recently experienced a failed update on my laptop running arch, where the laptop lost power for some unknown reason, and bricked my system. I was so tired of this shit that I just downloaded cachy OS and wiped the disk, installed the OS and called it a day.

I know not everything is the fault of linux, but man . . . . There's too many small problems to count . . . The fragmentation of application UI frameworks, GNOME this, QT that, GTK there, wlroots here, wxWidgets over there . . . . KWin randomly crashing, scripts that should just be a part of the WM instead of breaking with every update, lack of standardization of UI menu structures, wayland being great but still not good enough for production environments, THE UTTER LACK OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS FOR AUDIO PRODUCTION ON LINUX, WHYYYYYYYYYYYY

I've been using linux since ubuntu 5.04 so I dont need converting, but from business perspective we would need Office M365 desktop apps and MDM support. Also autodesk products. Personally I use M365 in browser, but feature parity is not up to 100%.

I think when all win32 apps work, there will no longer be any reason for windows.

Just slap a win7/win10 classic gui over it with some animations and we're going finally decimate all the other options for good.

For me, I think a really interesting take would be if Linux had a stronger office suite — meaning IT could more easily justify being a “Linux shop.” Active Directory + Microsoft Office 365 is the killer combination that leaves so many professionals saying “just use Microsoft.” Then it’s so much more natural to just issue everyone a Windows machine, and keep it that way because it’s already set up that way. If Linux could bolster itself to impress a similar level of confidence in IT professionals at the office, I think we’d see many more jobs willing to let their staff work on Linux (or even choose it exclusively for the business).

There would need to be corporations that can accept the same levels of liability Microsoft does, but for Linux. For many organizations, it comes down to who’s liable for what theoretical issues.

I'm confused about Flatpaks :c The flatpak version of PhpStorm was the easiest way to install it, but because it's isolated from the rest of my system it couldn't really talk to the php version that's globally installed on my machine. I couldn't really figure out how to get the php version into the flatpak, so I installed it in some different way. Not a huge hassle, and I bet I'll understand it some day, but I did feel pretty dumb haha

I have an issue with my laptop on my school's network, which is likely an issue with the way the network is configured, because I've never had the issue on other computers or networks elsewhere, but sometimes my laptop(Linux Mint ThinkPad T490) will stay connected to the network, but say 'authentication required' and have no internet access until I reconnect. It also sometimes pops up a password box and asks me to reauthenticate to the network which I do, still using the same saved password. This gets annoying while writing tests that use browser window monitoring software. Like I said, it's probably an issue with the network but none of the windows or Mac users seem to have this issue so maybe someone has come across something similar or knows how to fix it.

Resolution settings is one thing I can think of right now.

In Windows, I can right-click the desktop, click Display Settings, and easily choose what resolution I want the monitor at.

Why? Because I stupidly bought an ultrawide monitor back in 2017, and when trying to remote in to do something from a different room in the house, the screen is too tiny for my weak eyes to read.

On Windows, I can remote in with RDP (KRDP for KDE users), do the above clicking, and then be greeted with a properly scaled environment to work with on a smaller device. Think 15in trying to use 2560x1080. It doesn't work for what I need.

I read that it might be because my monitor doesn't come with those presets (i.e. 1920x1080), but Windows doesn't care. I can do it there, painlessly. Linux wants me to (as far as I know) mess with a config file somewhere, and I just am not going to do that any more. I've ruined a lot of distros trying to fuck around with those damn config files! >:(

VR support is still pretty bad, at least for my HP Reverb G2 headset. On Windows, everything just works out of the box. Plug in the headset, start SteamVR and every single game works well.

On Linux, I have to install Envision to set-up Monado which provides the neccessary OpenXR runtime for games. But the controllers are not supported in the main Monado branch, so you'll have to set up a specific fork of it, which is not that well documented.

It does run fine with some games, but not all of them. Half-Life: Alyx refuses to launch, for example. There doesn't seem to be any motion smoothing, so moving your head is really rough, it almost looks like your eyes receive 24fps (even though the headset does run on 90Hz) and I get nausea after a few minutes. Tracking your surroundings also doesn't work well, when you move around it's all very "jumpy".

And I wasn't able to get the SteamVR application to run at all. I always get an error because it seems like the cameras used for motion tracking are detected as regular webcams. On some other WMR headsets a firmware update can solve that, but I already run the latest firmware on my G2.

Maybe other VR headsets work much better, but this one is in absolute alpha state and the only reason I still dual-boot into Windows. Given the fact WMR has been declared obsolete by Microsoft and removed from Windows 11 last year we might see improvements. I got my headset for 120$ which is really affordable for one that can do 2160p per eye.

To be fair, though, the very first line in the Envision Readme states:

This is still highly experimental software

So I absolutely knew what I was getting into and it's great that it even (somewhat) works at all.