Never. Very disappointed in the general software companies not wanting to make their software work on Linux though. That will be mandatory once I become king.
And a blanket ban on using noreply@ addresses.
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The amount of issues I've had with sound on Linux, I'm currently running Cachy and I'm still not getting it through my laptop speakers. Bluetooth on Arch is tempermental at the best of times too...
Windows isn't much better, especially with Bluetooth involved. Audio never seems to get the attention it needs
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.
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
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.
If you're not disappointed at something with Linux, you're lying to yourself.
And I love Linux and wouldn't use anything but.
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.
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
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.
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 lsblk not work? I checked on my machine and it shows the correct path, assuming you know your stick is sdb or whatever. Something like lsblk -o MODEL,MOUNTPOINT is (generally) a bit more clear but admittedly getting into the 'pain' territory.
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-socket failed, 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.
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.
TBH the only time I've ever got involved with autoscroll was when a user accidentally clicked the wheel, and got "stuck in a funny mode" and the mouse was no longer working. I'm not sure how many regular users know it even exists - there are a lot who still don't even use the scroll-wheel at all.
In Linux, the scroll-wheel works as I expect it to anyway, so I've never wanted to change it.
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.
No.
I've only even been disappointed at myself.
And Nvidia.
I am deeply disappointed in the Android flavor of Linux. 17 years of development, and your phone still does not have a terminal app built into the OS.
Also lack of cron is extremely limiting
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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.
Disappointed at linux directly? No.
Disappointed at linux indirectly? Absolutely.
- Nvidia's linux support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
- Ubuntu
- ~~Unity~~ (at least it's gone from main installs now)
- Snaps
- ~~KDE~~
- ~~Version 4~~ (at least it's good now)
- ~~Fedora~~
- ~~Forcing their own broken version of OBS that didn't work~~ (they finally removed it)
- Wayland
- ~~Not supporting screenshare~~ (fixed with portals)
- Not supporting global shortcuts (currently being investigated)
- Accessibility (currently being investigated)
- Gnome
- Not supporting system trays
- Most people don't want their background apps (discord, teams, docker/podman, OBS, etc...) to be filling up the foreground.
- Not supporting server side decorations
- Literally the stupidest decision ever made
- Not supporting it forces all other developers to spend their time integrating their own client side decorations just so users can move/close a window in someone else's desktop environment. (example: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408#%3A%7E%3Atext=Client-side+window+decorations)
- Not supporting it means every developer has to deal with issues being reported to them that aren't their fault.
- Not supporting it means every developer now has less time to work on their own applications.
- Not supporting it means that humanity has wasted a stupid amount of time reimplementing the same thing over and over again instead of just once.
- Gnome saying that: "it's not part of the standard"
- Buddy, you're the only one holding it back from being standardised.
- Cosmic: Supported
- Hyprland: Supported
- KDE (Kwin): Supported
- Unity (Mir): Supported
- Niri: Supported
- Sway: Supported
- etc...: Supported
- Gnome (Mutter, and those downstream like Muffin): Not Supported
- It has... by all metrics... become... THE defacto standard.
- "It's not in the official wayland standard"
- Buddy, wayland needs to support more than just the desktop metaphor. It also needs to support things like phones, handhelds, kiosk machines, car infotainment systems, etc... where having a window on a screen doesn't make sense. You are a desktop environment using the desktop metaphor, you need to support the basic functionality of moving windows that pop up on the screen, and you are the only one failing, and not only failing but failing so hard you're negatively affecting all those around you, and not only that but you're also not being accountable to how your actions are negatively affecting others.
- Buddy, you're the only one holding it back from being standardised.
- Not supporting system trays
Snaps, and things like it, are really the only one I can blame on "Linux" (or at least Linux distributions).
I've had annoying headaches with drivers for 20+ years, but I expect that because Linux just doesn't have enough users for most companies to bother making sure they have working drivers for Linux. I've been annoyed when some software or some tool or process isn't as polished as the Windows version. But, mostly that's something I got for free thanks to someone donating their time and effort, so I don't want to complain about that.
But, I hate it when a major Linux distribution decides they're going to ignore the standard way of doing things and only do things in their unique way. It often seems like one vendor / distributor is trying to build a walled garden and lock people in. It's similarly annoying when vendors try to funnel people towards their "enterprise" version by making it harder to install certain apps that are "enterprisey".
I get that it's hard to make money selling Linux distributions. But, that's what you signed up for. You don't get to start behaving like Microsoft because it turns out to be hard to sell open source / free software.
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