Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss
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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I guess the biggest thing I'm missing right now is VR gaming.
But since my VR googles need WMR to work, I wouldn't be any better off with Windows 11 either.
I'm looking forward to the Steam Frame, hopefully it'll support SteamOS out of the box
I would be a lot more excited if I wasn’t worried it was going to cost +$1,099. I hope that I am wrong.
that is just for the memory
They said they are shooting for less than the price of the index so that’s $999 or less, not sure if they will reneg on that due to ram prices.
It's also unclear if they're comparing it to the cost of the index with or without the Lighthouses.
We'll just have to wait and see.
I mean it should. It'll have a steam os installed on the device itself. It'd be a pretty silly oversight to not work with a computer running Linux.
Same. Quest 2. Fedora 43 KDE. 5700X3D / 9070 XT. Steam Link crashes out launching VR games. ALVR has death wobble-like reprojection jitter. WiVrn package provided by Fedora is 2 major releases behind, and the Quest client has zero backwards compatability with older host versions.
CachyOS, Steam Link won't connect reliably on my laptop. WiVrn is not in pacman, have to use Arch AUR, which doesn't have the interface that gives me info I need to patch launch commands to start a VR game. It won't reliably connect either, despite me turning firewall off during testing.
I know compiling from source is preferred as "the linux way", but I would like to spend more time actually using my pc than fixing it. There's no reason the VR software needs to be recompiled just to change a setting. Maybe bake in the ability to change settings instead of hardcoding everything.
Wine would be super helpful if they can find way to make older (2019 and older) Quickbooks run reliably. Lots of small businesses locked into old platforms because the accountants or the people who do accounting themselves can't learn how to use anything else, and the linux alternatives (GNUCash, etc.) require a phd in linuxology to learn and don't offer the easy business-in-a-box functionality or any familiarity at all with functions.
Waydroid is neat, but poorly integrated in the desktop. It runs as a full screen app, and doesn't task switch easily, in addition to running the oldest supported Android version.
Please, Valve, make Steam a 64-bit native client! So few people use 32-bit systems that the few that do probably aren't running Steam to save on memory.
Pipewire audio devices and webcam support needs to be smoother. I've never seen so much console shim hacks and manually compiled kernel modules just to get a virtual webcam working.
I haven't even begun to try my NXT Gladiator flight stick in linux... that might be a whole nother can of trouble to open.
Edit: Updated to reflect the latest upgrades to Fedora and my attempt to get CachyOS to do VR.
I had the same issue as you with steam link and my 7800xt. Putting this in my launch args for SteamVR fixed it
RADV_PERFTEST=video_decode,video_encode DRI_PRIME=1 ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh %command%and if you try that and get a different error code from before, ( I think it was like 1033) swap your mesa drivers to the freeworld variety. That should besudo dnf swap mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers-freeworld.The only thing is, steamvr can't display your desktop properly if you're using wayland, it simply doesn't support it. BUT here's a cool project that can help you work around it, for some reason there's currently a bug with their pipewire implementation (or something like that) such that you have to manually connect the display streams in the coppwr pipewire gui (helvum and carla don't work), otherwise it'll only show one frame of the display stream.
y'know what, I'm actually gonna make a post about this, since it took me many hours of searching forums to find this solution.
I was surprised to find my Valve Index work flawlessly after switching to Linux (Pop!_OS). Even had a better framerate in some games.
I'm using Fedora KDE, and for the first time in my life, an upgrade (42 to 43) completely borked the system, in a way that I couldn't boot to anything else other than a kernel panic.
I had to boot up a live USB, mount and chroot into the old system, and manually fix each duplicated / corrupted package. And it still caused every now and then some weird issue with dnf, so in the end I just reinstalled the entire OS.
I feel like updates "offered" via a nice and convenient gui shouldn't really do this out of nowhere - and I wasn't the only one to report this in the past half year.
I found on the 42->43 upgrade, Wine 32-bit was removed, and the upgrader errors out instead of fixing it. What I did to fix was immediately, manually (via dnf) uninstall wine*, then immediately run the upgrade again, and it fixed itself, finishing the upgrade with 64-bit Wine installed.
Sure would be nice if they caught and fixed that before pushing the update and requiring users to do it themselves.
I ran into the same issue with errors every time I tried to update. This fix worked perfectly, thank you for taking the time to comment!
Sorry you had to go through with that.
Point-release distros like to tout stability, but they face all the same problems as rolling-release distros when upgrading between versions.
Mobile... I want a Linux phone 😭
@Sprocketfree @cm0002 the problem is not that they don't exist it's that they barely have apps.
I know... And I'm sad
linux and the DEs dont make it easy to write apps for, this is a compositor/window manager/de issue to solve.
Want to write an for gnome? Javascript or c++. Enjoy libadwaita. Want to write for kde? C++ only. Dont want to write js and you only know kotlin/swift/java/objc? Tough fucking shit, get fucked. Want to write rust? Not supported by kde or gnome ootb, the learning resources are bare etc. Oh and for kde you have to learn QT as well have fun:)
Itd be cool if rust was the baseline standard for writing apps and was fully supported by the major DEs. I honestly cannot be bothered to learn C++ just to make a tiny app for my desktop, I will never use it again in my life because it is dying.
@dreadbeef C bindings can be used on Rust so Gnome should be easier. I find QTs lack of AT-SPI to be a non starter. Also nothing says you need to use gnome or it if you're making your own mobile first compositor.
right, but popular (and valid imo) complaint about mobile on linux is the lack of apps. GUI applications either have to bring their own GUI toolkit (slint/qt/etc) or use the one provided by the host (the DE on linux). Like all of linux, its very fragmented at the moment, and theres no clear leader
@dreadbeef super valid point. I do believe having a Wayland compositor that just reformatted the app via ST-API would be a massive first step. It would force accessibility and dynamic sizing. Given only Gnome has ST-API built in. Qt is just a mess for accessibility
Just dusted off one of my old Android apps and I completely agree with you.
Android has to be one of the least-competent, hacked-together, yet overengineered pieces of shit on the planet.
It saddens me that people were paid 6 figures to make it. They did not deserve that money and did a horrible job.
The biggest difficulty is music production plugins. Some have a Linux version, some work via yabridge and wine (with some GUI bugs), and some don't work at all.
On top of that, my initial attempt was using Mint with all of the audio optimisations (including kernel) but it was stuttery and slow. Unfortunately, oving to another distro is not painless when you have to move all the plugins too but CachyOS has been much better so far.
Native Linux audio plugins are frustratingly uncommon. I'm gradually trying to replace my Windows plugins with Linux native ones but it's hard to do sometimes. My thing lately has been building my own replacements with plugdata.
Plugdata seems like a deep rabbit hole, so I'm a little afraid of it but maybe that's the next step.
For now, I'll share my latest Linux plugin find: https://store.harrisonaudio.com/all-products/harrison-32classic-channel-strip says it doesn't support Linux but if you buy it and download the "old" version from here https://support.harrisonaudio.com/hc/en-gb/articles/19516617411613-Harrison-AVA-downloads-OLD-VERSIONS (it has the same version number as the most recent Windows copy), then you can activate it and it works well. I think I had to say no to linking iLok when purchasing. It's crap that they've recently stopped supporting Linux (because they've moved to using iLok) but I've been happy with the plugin.
Plugdata is a rabbit hole, but thankfully you only need to learn a few dozen of the most common objects to start making things. It took me a week of low effort learning before I could make patches without needing tutorials or outside help. The built-in documentation is all you need after that.
Does that plugin have a distinct sound you like? To be honest I've never moved beyond my DAW's stock eq and compressor. And god, iLok is a scourge.
Okay, that doesn't sound too bad then!
I've been looking for a good channel strip for a bit as I've heard good things about them as a workflow. Also, aa it's an emulation of a physical device rather than a more perfect compressor etc, it adds some nice colouration that works really well for some instruments. The saturation is particularly nice and I'm surprised how much I like using the EQ.
And yeah, iLok is awful.
You might enjoy this video/series: https://youtu.be/yawlonjLp4c
I've been trying to get my audio working the way I want (instead of everything just going to the default sink), and it's been helpful.
Thanks, I'll take a look!
I have the same problem with nixos. It's partially solved but some plugin derivations are behind the times or something (or maybe I'm the problem and I can blame documentation :P)
I don't like that I get zero feedback when typing in my boot-time decryption password. Like, I can't even tell if my keyboard is working. Did I press Enter or am I wasting my time staring at the prompt: "enter password for drive whatever (random guid)".
I've literally sat there with my keyboard not even plugged in, not realizing it wasn't dong anything because there's no feedback. Like, can't it show some asterisks? Or maybe "attempting decryption" after I press Enter, or anything? The only feedback is: it will either boot or say "invalid password" eventually.
It's a minor frustration, but it's every day that it bugs me.
(OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. LUKS2 or whatever, using the built-in encryption when I first installed it on my laptop.)
for me the blinking cursor resets when i enter my luks key 😅 so when i see the cursor immediately disappear i know my keyboard is workin, but absolutely agree on that
Interesting, I don't have this issue using rhel8. It always shows asterisks for keystrokes.
crypttab provides "password-echo" option, something related on archwiki here
that should fix it
If I had to name a thing ...... My only issue is the lack of support from organizations. Drivers, though It's getting better for printers/scanners etc. but like HW identifiers from banks etc are still windows (and mac). And no, i'm not gonna install windows or anything wine-like for it. (so far I've been able to take the alternative route/work around it)
Probably the banks don't even check HW identifiees, they see that you are using Linux and just decide to block you, at least, many reported that with many banks but it's not a universal rule ofc
I use Linux daily for work and personal tasks, but I sometimes have to resort to either a Windows VM or Windows running natively for the following:
Hardware
Software
And I desperately miss the native Stream Deck software. StreamController’s page-changing is very slow, in general is finicky, buggy, and less intuitive.
Unfortunately, the anti-cheat is a conscious decision by the developers to forego any sort of Linux compatibility. Anything that allows it to be run in Linux will likely result in the anti-cheat software being updated to block that workaround.
Not that it's Linux fault, but access to and compatibility with popular creative tools like Ableton or Adobe products.
Sure, it's feasible to use Wine to run these products, but not in any professionally usable manner.
Yes, I am aware there are Linux-friendly alternatives, but they lack the plugins, compatibility, features, and quality of their industry~standard counterparts.
I second this. I use Gimp, but it’s UI and UX is just the worst I’ve ever seen. (It has some great tiny features here and there, though.)
I hope this situation would improve over time, and I’d try to contribute as much as I can. So, fingers crossed. Otherwise, I’m quite happy with Linux being my primary OS for many years.
This plugin might help you https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
Thanks, I use it, but I could mention it, so it’s great you did! To me, Gimp became usable, I cannot stand its interface without it!
I agree, GIMPs UI is pretty nasty. Same as LibreOffice Writer, but I still use them.
Why duplicate this thread? There's now at least 3 copies..
This is certainly one of the strength/weaknesses of Lemmy. I wish there were a way to, I don't know how to phrase it, federate the different community posts into one. So like in this case, replying to any of the three would be seen on any of the three threads. As an option at least.
Sure, but there's also no reason to make the post 3+ times in the first place
I agree.
The current Virtual Keyboard solution on KDE (
maliit) isn't working quite as much as i'd like. It only works on GTK apps, and only sometimes shows. When it does, it won't relaunch after dismissal untill you kill it. Add to that it's not as feature-dense as its windows alternatives.I hear that they are working on their own
plasma-keyboard, and I hope that will fix most of these issues, but I haven't had the tim to update my system.The only two issues I have at the moment are that Nemo is not a reliable file browser. It crashes almost daily. Some of its behavior is also frustrating when I go up a directory and it reshuffles my view and loses where I was. I deal with copious files and directories so this can be painful sometimes. Maybe need to play with Dolphin more or find another manager. Open to suggestions. I miss the expected behavior of the file manager in windows, but I don’t miss windows at all.
That second issue is not having an easy method to manage my iPhone with Linux. Pulling images is awkward and always requires fiddling. No iTunes of course for backup and updates. I don’t like OTA updates. So I keep a W10 VM (with no route out) for that stuff.
Otherwise, Linux works for everything else perfectly fine.
Edit: Mint btw. I do love how Linux makes the OS a tool for me rather than a tool for them.
I think you should try out different file managers like GNOME files or Dolphin from KDE. One might solve your issue with iPhone
I can get to the phone data with Nemo. It’s just flakey. I’ve used Dolphin, but when comparing then the look of Nemo seemed to win. In practice, having nemo bomb out every other day is frustrating. I’ll take a peek at Hnome files. Thanks for the suggestion!
And I do enjoy the command line plugin(?) for Nemo. It is handy for sure (it provides a command prompt that follows along wherever you cd to. Maybe enabling some of the plugins is causing the instability with Nemo….
Perhaps for the phone you could try something like KDE Connect. You have to be on the same wifi, but once connected, you can do things like remote input, sharing the clipboard, sending sms, sending files, and you can browse files from the PC.
Some things I have listed here may differ as I am on an Android
I am currently using dolphin, and I would highly recommend. I tried xfe before. It's highly customizable, but opening files was king of annoying (you had to manually input the path of the application)
E: more information
Thanks! I did see a couple of tools like KDEC, but my main system is wired only. I suppose I could pop in a WiFi card and give that a whirl. If I can do some of those things that’d be nice. To move a file from Signal off my phone I had to use VLC. It worked, but yeesh.
Appreciate the input!
no problem!
P.S. You don't need a WiFi card to use KDE Connect. I have it set up on my desktop (Ethernet only), and it works perfectly. I think you do have to make sure that it connects through the same router that the wired connection uses.
Fingerprint reader: that thing looks at me every day, obscenely suggesting I boot up Windows instead of Linux so I can stroke it gently and login conveniently.
Oh, also battery life. Windows always has managed to extract more uptime from a single charge in my laptop.
I installed
power-profiles-daemonon my laptop (and configured it in the settings) a while back and noticed a bit better battery life. Maybe it could also be the kernel? I updated mine a while back and there was also an improvement.I haven’t done recent comparisons, maybe it has gotten better these days. I use Ubuntu LTS, so I’ll have a good opportunity for before/after benchmarking this April.
What are you using for power management on Linux? I forgot what I switched to but switching from the default (I think it was CPU power deamon) to something more granular literally doubled my uptime.
Whatever Ubuntu 22.04 LTS shipped. I know we have many tools to micromanage energy in Linux, and I’ve used them in the past, but I think it’s fairer to compare Windows vs Ubuntu out-of-the-box, without tweaks.
Mobile
https://jolla.com/ ?
Would love to get this in US/Canada
On Bazzite.
Programs often take a concerningly-long time to load. Like 30 seconds+. But it's intermittent. Haven't been able to put together any patterns as to when this does or doesn't happen.
About 1/3 of the time when I try to open a PDF file (which open in Firefox), they just.... don't. Plasma will just spin with the Firefox icon on the mouse cursor for like 10 seconds and then silently do nothing. No errors of any kind reported. No idea where I might look for logs or whatever to help diagnose the issue.
Dolphin is definitely lacking in the UX department for frequent actions I'm used to in Windows, like mounting SMV shares with non-default credentials (basically impossible in Dolphin, only doable in CLI), creating new folders (I've been spoiled by having a dedicated toolbar button), and working with elevated permissions (Windows will just seamlessly prompt you when additional permissions are needed, Dolphin will just error, sometimes with useless error messages, and make you go elevate your session separately).
Windows (the UI concept, not the OS) do not remember and restore to their prior locations, which Windows (the OS) always handled pretty seamlessly. I know I can supposedly make this happen via the "window rules" settings, but I haven't been able to find ANY good resources on how that system actually works, and when I tried to just do it intuitively, I fucked up things like where the Application Menu and Open File dialogs appear. No, I don't want to have to configure it specially for every app I might use, I want there to just be sensible defaults that I don't have to fight against.
Those are the ones that're coming to mind. All very nitpicky, but I'm largely a UI/UX designer at work, so I'm pretty sensitive to nitpicky things. No regrets, though.
New Bazsite user too.
The Firefox thing is not specific to opening a PDF. I get the same behavior you describe just when I open Firefox. It's probably just first launch after a new boot for me but I'm not sure.
It's definitely not just first open, for me. Every two weeks, I scan and organize receipts as PDFs for my own accounting, so I end up with many files open at once, all while my existing Firefox wibdows are already open.
Do you have to use firefox for your pdfs? There are much better alternatives.
Not particularly, it's just the default. And it's not really about the PDFs, it happens when I'm trying to visit links, from outside of Firefox as well. Opening PDFs is just something I do far more often.
RE engine games like monster hunter and dragons dogma are a mess. I blame Capcom and NVIDIA, but because not everyone is having the same issues I do it's safe to assume there is some Linux solution out there that isn't documented. So I guess my pain point is lack of good documentation, a tale as old as time tbf.
Huh, I played through worlds without any issues but I'm pretty sure it was because I'm on amd
What's the problem?
Played Wilds on launch and had pretty much no issues other than the game freezing for a second or two every hour or so.
On the other hand, my friend on Windows would crash from time to time, which I didn't experience.
Although it should be noted that neither Wilds nor Dragon's Dogma are technological marvels. They run bad everywhere.
Vertex explosions. Also some weird shader compiling stuff that I was able to solve.
For DD it's actually fine but there's this hilarious bug where the very last Cutscene causes the game to crash. I'm not even mad enough to try and fix it tbh, it's just funny.
Haven't had any Vertex explosions or shader compiling issues in Wilds but I also assume that's Nvidia related.
Do you have those issues in their other titles like their newer Resident Evil games as well?
On Fedora KDE.
Office, specifically Excel. I use it professionally for work and the lack of feature parity in Linux alternatives (Libre Office and Only Office, specifically) are a perpetual thorn in my side.
I do my best to use Linux alternatives in my personal life, and, if necessary, use the MS web version of Excel but every so often I run into something that can only be done in the full desktop version and I have to boot back into Windows.
I've heard of WinBoat and https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps, but at least when I tried them they were too resource heavy to realistically run on a laptop
What features do you find missing from open office? The way I use it open office calc is better than Microsoft excel
Basically any of the power features (power pivot, power query).
I can't cross play on Ghost of Tsushima.
I can't get my MT7927 wifi chip to work
I still have issues with Snap... But I switched to an Arch distro to fix that problem
Some permissions got messed up in my KDE install the other day after an update, I'm really not sure how. I tried to fix it by recursively changing ownership of /usr/ to root. Don't do this. This kills the OS. It was technically repairable but like, I don't wanna go through that rigamarole, I just nuked it and restored from a backup.
Sometimes I'm reminded that I often know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to be safe.
There are edge cases like these where I would consider paying for software to fix my system. Problem is, I wouldn't know where to look and who to trust.
Its also just for personal use, so if it were expensive then I would just reformat for free.
I use Rustdesk and remote into my work PC. The lag is horrible and my windows key and alt keys don't translate into the remote desktop.
Same PC running win 11 is buttery smooth.
I have the sane problem with the Super (Windows) and alt button running locally instead of just the remote machine.
You might find better success with Moonshine & Sunshine together. It works with Android as well. And provides 4K HD streaming which is great for gaming.
I will try this right now.
Let me know how it goes. I don't gave much experience with them. But if they're made well for gaming, should for good for a full experience.
Ok, I was not successful in setting this up. It's not as seamless as rustdesk or anydesk. After installing sunshine, it sorta drops you off on a browser without any instructions. After asking AI, I think I have that setup.
Then moving on into Fedora, I found the flatpak and installed the moonlight installer. Then launched the app and clicked the download, it finishes downloading and does nothing. No new app. No next steps. Just nothing.
So I gave up. I'm trying Remmina and trying RDP. Maybe it will be better, but I don't have high hopes.
STEP BY STEP SOLUTION
Using my ArchLinux as a Sunshine server, and Ubuntu as a Moonlight client:
Sunshine devs advise using your Distros package manager ("apt" if on Ubuntu/Debian. AURs "yay" or "paru" if on ArchLinux, or "dns" if on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL), instead of using your Distros AppStore, or either AppImage or Flatpak -- although they may still work.
Run the following on the terminal command line of your Sunshine server:
sudo setcap cap_sys_admin+p $(readlink -f $(which sunshine))Then either restart Sunshine by opening on your browser
https://localhost:47990/troubleshootingor reboot the whole machine if that doesn't work.https://localhost:47990/Capture system keyboard shortcutsip addrhttps://localhost:47990/pinwebpage of the Sunshine server.CTL + Shift + Alt + Qto escape.Extra info / rant, may not be useful
Again, step 5 is what allows special keys to be ran on the remote host and not the local.
I just tried Sunshine (remote host) and Moonlight (client). There was a bit more setting up. They mention on their docs somewhere to use your distro's package manager instead of app stores if you can.
On ArchLinux, I needed to run this in the command line first, and then restart.
sudo setcap cap_sys_admin+p $(readlink -f $(which sunshine))And then after running Sunshine, and accessing its web console
https://localhost:47990/, setting a username and password, to access it via Moonshine on my client by putting my 192.168.xxx.xxx IP, then placing the pin on the Sunshine remote host athttps://localhost:47990/pin. And then had 2 "Desktop" icons, 1 to connect with high res and another low res; and then a third icon to connect to "Steam" for Steam Big Picture mode connection.Also Moonlight and Sunshine starts with very low brightness. I've fixed this before, by going into the Moonlight or Sunshine settings -- I don't remember which one.
Although Moonlight and Sunshine does not ask for connection verification after I've connected once. Rustdesk would ask me everytime, and I did not figure out how to remove Rustdesk prompting the remote host to ask the connection.
And both Moonlight and Rustdesk run the super key on the client host.###
Hey man, I got it to work. It's incredibly fast and almost no lag.
The downside is the hot keys don't transfer to the remote PC.
The keys aren't transferring with RustDesk or Moonlight? Moonlight worked for me with the above.
When fingerprint or whatever is setup as a PAM module for login it can decrypt your home folder, so you can do the initial login with it
Laptop OEMs seem to go with fingerprint readers that have no Linux support.
A number of distros out of the box have some IMO dumb things you need to change.
E.g. Fedora insisting on having their own Flatpak repository that isn't as well-stocked or updated as Flathub, and missing audio/video codecs (I realise this is due to licensing concerns, but other distros get around it).
Yes, I know I can manually and painstakingly do a lot of this with Syncthing. It's not the same. It's a lot more time/effort and you need the knowledge to set it up.
This was also such a big downer for me on my Lenovo Yoga 370. I could not (for gods sake) get the fingerprint reader to work because it was missing key material that was baked into the Windows Driver but required to communicate with the Fingerprint Reader Hardware.
Umm... not much to be honest. It's overall pretty great. I switched my main rig fully to Linux about 2 years ago.
First year was Manjaro w/xfce which got a little janky around the edges, probably due to how they avoid using the AUR directly. Can't remember specific problems that couldn't be attributed to old RAM or my own tomfoolery.
Past year has been on EndeavorOS w/KDE Plasma. Took a little time on the Arch wiki to get my Mesa install fully operational, but wasn't bad. And I think at one point yay tried to compile electron32 from scratch which was kind of insane (probably wasted 80 GB of download for that one night) but eventually I found forum posts saying it was fine to just remove. Besides that, it's been fantastic. It's rare now that I even find a game that doesn't work well, and half the time I forget to even check protondb like I used to.
Oh here. I guess combining PDFs could be a better experience. Had to use pdfunite in the command line which worked well but felt a lot more awkward than just using Acrobat to drop in pages and rearrange them. But there's probably a GUI utility I just didn't find.
Ah, and printer support. Wifi printing worked once for no apparent reason then never again. But printers are terrible in Windows too so I blame the OEMs.
Ah, printer support.
I have better experience with Linux than with Windows for printers.
But it never really is 100% reliable for some models
*PTT key on my mouse. For some reason it keeps changing that mouse button to some weird collection of button presses. *KDE on multi monitors my mouse gets snagged on the screen edge if its moving slow. I tried turn off the settings I found in System Settings but it only reduced the issue didnt fix it.
Why am I seeing like 5 different posts like these, all of the sudden? They're all the same, literally same title, just posted by different users.
I crossposted this from .ml (but text posts like these don't really crosspost well, which is why I tagged the original user instead for attribution) but it appears that the original user posted it themselves to like 3 other different comms, just on different instances so I didn't notice lol
I only really have two pain points, one of which isn't the fault of linux, and the other that probably is.
First: Adobe shit. I depend on Adobe Lightroom. This is entirely on Adobe. I know about the alternatives, but apparently I suck and can't get good at them. I keep a Mac laptop around just to use this application. I tried screwing around with Wine and VMs to get it working, but it's pretty useless without GPU acceleration, and so far the only way to get that in a VM is to have a second dedicated GPU just for the VM. Plus, that still requires keeping a Windows installation around.
Second: Wake from sleep. Just doesn't work properly on my desktop PC running Fedora 43 with KDE. AMD CPU and GPU, etc. The computer does wake up but the display never does, and nothing short of a hard power cycle seems to make it recover. Works just fine on my Thinkpad which is running the same environment, also all AMD but with just whatever AMD integrated graphics came with the CPU in that case.
Having chatted with some other people experiencing the same thing with similar hardware setups and F43 with KDE it apparently doesn't manifest if using GNOME, just KDE. For now I just have the desktop set to turn off the display when idle but to not put the machine to sleep. I am a KDE enjoyer, GNOME does not float my boat.
Lol I have a similar issue, with Debian on my AMD laptop. But for me it's already on GNOME and it only manifests randomly -_-
Have you seen the news about the Wine patch from a random GOATED dev that fixes the CC installer? Iirc they tested Photoshop so far and reports it's "buttery smooth" so other Adobe softwares might not be too far behind!
Same here. Broken on KDE but not gnome.
App stores are always terrible no matter which distro you use.
Yeah, "app stores" are some new-fangled thing that was added in response to the Apple Mac app store.
Most Linux users just use the main package repos which don't come with all that stuff.
I assume they’re just talking of the GUI front-end, so it’s almost the same.
most linux users now just use flathub and their distros flatpak manager
Right now I'm running Win 10 through QEMU/KVM to run printing software to print photos properly on my fancy Canon inkjet printer. I can't for the life of me find a software that will print borderless 4"x6" photos properly. Or even just print images on paper!
I'm using Kubuntu 24.04 btw.
On topic for QEMU/KVM, easier to use interfaces would be helpful. Not saying other VM software are any easier, but they have so many settings baked in, and I only get them running maybe after the 50th trial and error setting changed.
I just use the virtual machine manager. I think it works great.
https://virt-manager.org/
I really wish there was a good remote desktop method that supported attaching to my "local" session but keeping the displays locked. Similar to how windows RDP works.
If I have to remote into my work machine from home, I have XRDP setup to make a separate session that I can have run simultaneously to my local session. It's fine, but if I could use the existing local session that would be superb (without unlocking my local displays while I'm not there is the big point)
GNOME has RDP/VNC abilities, but in my experience a) the screen has to be awake, or else it becomes none responsive, b) it only worked with one monitor IIRC, and c) it unlocks the local display.
x11vnchas issue C.I think KDE is working on improved Wayland RDP? Haven't seen if it satisfies this. Sadly though, my work IT doesn't support Wayland
I wish amdgpu would get debugged so I didn't have to save every thirty seconds whenever I do anything.
Fedora: requires some rework of Nvidia drivers to wake the screen back up from sleep. Updating GPU drivers does nothing to improve game rendering so frame rates for games of yesteryear on a RTX3080 were single digit. Required some changes to h264 drivers just so I could see videos on YouTube or Dailymotion while simultaneously messing with my VLC install. My VPN blocks off my subnet whenever it's on so I can't access my NAS.
CachyOS (Arch fork): drivers for my printer aren't available without compiling them myself which did not go well. My preferred 3d printer slicer is difficult to install but that's because I'm a total noob when it comes to installing anything from GitHub. My VPN blocks off my subnet whenever it's on I can't access my NAS.
So far ChachyOS has given me the best experience out of a few other distros like Mint or Bazzite.
I Developed a iOS App with xtool and its Not legal to use Linux for App Development.
Dang what're they go a do? Send you to jail?
Block account
Multiplayer games in Civilizations VI take much longer to load on Linux Mint than they used to on Windows. Multiple minutes now vs about half a minute previously. Once loaded it's fine, no noticable differences between old and new. The longer loading times do become quite annoying when we need to reload/reconnect due to networking issues.
Are you running the native version or through Proton? When I played Civ VI the Linux native version performed worse than using Proton, ironically. Either way, maybe try switching?
Since you specified multiplayer I'm guessing it's not time to load from disk or anything.
I'm running it through proton, didn't get the audio on the native version to work
grub rescue:>
OOF
F in that guys
Daily usage? I have some audio issues. It "feels" like the whatever resets/reinitializes. Really quickly though, playback isn't being interrupted. Sometimes it switches to a dead output channel though and I have to reset it to the actually connected output. Too lazy to diagnose it.
As a longer standing point of annoyance, I find it very difficult to quickly go UI -> package name -> bug tracker -> bug report. For understandable reasons devs don't exactly advertise their bug trackers, they're always a bit obfuscated and have some barriers.
Color management continues to not work correctly, although that may be due to some x11 wayland conflict. I have a dark color theme preference and certain applications that aren't directly available as package, but e.g. via flatpack don't integrate well. Gnome calendar is something I can name, without wanting to blame the devs of that piece of software in particular. They're doing their best, it's not a priority, maybe not even an issue on their preferred config.
I also have some freeze crashes, although that's more recent, might be a harddrive/hardware issue that throws off something very low level. But the reboot is so quick I barely mind that.
For me it is missing good and easy setup software for trading. Yes some platforms run in browser, but the experience is not that great as native app. Maybe some find their setup that is OK for them, but for now I haven't figured this out for me as I want specific broker(EU) and broker with API access and some 2FA security. Not that many options as I'm used to on Mac or much more options on Windows. Maybe I've found that SaxoBank broker with TradingView integration might work for me, when trading on larger timeframes(hourly and more), but if I wanted to trade on low timeframes(3mins candlesticks etc.) then it's unusable for me as TradingView updates prices slowly and I need faster update of ticks and candles. TradingView is also american software, so I would rather not use that too as I'm trying to get rid of as much american software/goods as possible. I was having problem running Metatrader or cTrader through Wine, but it was some time ago and I might try that again. In some time it will settle and I'll find the proper setup for me, but not ideal for now.
Edge case but Remote Desktop doesn’t work the way I like it.
I like being able to remote connect to my windows PC and it auto resizes the desktop to match the local system. Plus then I can log onto the remote machine directly and it resizes to be correct for the attached monitor.
I haven’t found a Linux that does this.
Have you tried Remmina? It's been a few years since I used it, but I remember it auto resizing fairly easily.
Remmina
I use that and works fine with Windows remote hosts. The issue is Linux remote system doesn’t allow resizing.
When logging into Linux you can log into a new remote session that supports resizing, but if you try to log into the active local session then you can’t resize.
I feel like my CPU isnt boosting. I check btop and turbostar and zcpu and they always report the cores at 3700hz or under. The 5600x should be able to boost a core up to 4.6gz.
It doesnt matter cause my preformance is amazing already but i want to get maximum preformance from my hardware and boosting for single threaded preformance is huge.
Did u check bios?
Gaming is the only thing stopping me from completely getting rid of windows forever, its slowly getting there. I feel powerful with my hands on a terminal, only the sky is the limit on what I can do, where as powershell makes me want to start chain smoking.
Its so easy nowadays on Steam, and other clients like Lutris for GoG and Heroic for Epic Games. They care care of all the extra software to install to run Windows games.
You simply install the client, run the game. As simple as Windows. Plus the epic power of Linux. Its the best for new and older hardware.
I havent tried any competitive games or games with anticheat. Everything else I've tried works without any hiccups, including anno which uses the ubisoft launcher.
At the end of the day, im willing to give up gaming to flip Microsoft the bird.
As a gamer who did switch, curious what games are preventing the switch. In my experience sometimes it struggles with indie games only released for Windows that have probably been downloaded maybe 100 times at best; and probably as you know anything with kernel-level anticheat
@cm0002 also, just missing tools like adobe suite, or fusion. Otherwise it's pretty smooth
https://lemmings.world/post/39991946
Adobe is getting closer lol
@cm0002 ooo, tell me more, running in wine, web, or do you think they'll come over? That would honestly be great.
The alternatives to Adobe are looking better and better, but they still have me on a few use cases.
Tl;Dr some random dev patched wine and finally closed longstanding issues that was preventing the Adobe CC 2025 installer from finishing
So far its only gotten as far as Photoshop working smoothly, I think the other suite softwares is untested
My usb audio volume mixer which only has software support for Windows, the folks who made it specify they are available for support but FAQ says that only the windows support will ever be offered. It's simple and does everything I need it to without being cumbersome, has 5 programmable knobs and buttons.
Afaik from what I've looked up there is no way to get usb hardware and win device drivers to interface with software run through wine. Was disappointed because it's honestly such a key part of my setup atp. Not really linux's fault so much as the developers not wanting to deal with it, was a niche limited time thing from a small team so I don't blame them but still a bummer.
On bazzite
Can't change my Plymouth boot screen
Can't set animated icons in toolbar (KDE)
The screen transition I chose is glitchy
The translation tries VERY hard to be different from windows (idk what's up with that as on other system it was normal(propably, I would need to make sure))
I don't know how to run containers from within containers, but that's a skill issue. (I wanted to build piefed from distrobox)
For the longest time I had to disable manually a module so my graphics tablet would work. It was fixed a month ago!
I cant get my epson ecotank et2710 to work under arch/endevaouros.
No fingerprint login. Its frustrating that in all cases I can use my fingerprint instead of a password except when booting up my laptop.
Also, QOL and stability features would be nice. Buttons that dont work shouldn't be visible, for example, and getting a useful error message from many apps can be a headache.
Recently, I had a problem where amy app using electron suddenly stopped working at all. When ran with the terminal, it showed 2 errors, neither of which told you how to fix the issue. Eventually I figured out that using flatseal to force all apps to use wayland fixed the issue and made things smoother as well.
I find it weird that fingerprint auth and password auth aren't active at the same time. It's either one or the other which is really frustrating
You can alter your PAM configuration to require both: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/572841
On my system, by default it lets you use either one to authenticate any time a password is needed, but this can be changed to require successful authentication using BOTH methods if desired.
I wasn't sure if you were wanting to require both, or just allow either one to be used, but both scenarios are trivial to configure.
External web cams. Even those that are said to be fairly compatible have issues. And it's not with the cams, its v4l and the kernel drivers.
I'm on openSUSE Tumbleweed using KDE Wayland
Sometimes my session will freeze up and I have to switch to tty and back to the GUI session to fix it.
I run a windows VM through winboat and it works well enough but it is particularly jank in regards to having multiple or even just 1 program open at times.
Every time I mount a veracrypt drive, baloorunner starts eating up my memory until I run out and I might have to hard reboot
When I log in to my desktop it sometimes freezes, sometimes crashes too and I have to either restart or go into terminal to restart the service. Happened in endeavourOS and now in cachyOS
And now in CachyOS on every start up my "open on start" applications open where my mouse is pointed instead of putting it where it was last on my monitors.
Apple guy here, so no, I don't use Linux. I have before, and I have off and on for about 30 years. I'm not subbed here, I browse /all and see a bunch of stuff. Thought this was worth replying to.
Like I would never tell an Android user they can't use a Mac because they wouldn't get Universal Clipboard, but dammit, that feature is so useful. Of course we don't have Linux phones but supposedly they're coming, and I'd be super interested in one. At one point it was important to have an iPhone because of privacy and power. But we hit a plateau years ago and it's all marketing bullshit now. Any flagship from the last 5-6 years is still pretty good. So until someone takes a step forward, might as well get a Linux phone, and it's gonna beat the iPhone to privacy.
So looking back to the Linux that exists today, I'd like to see an E2EE clipboard sync system that, for now, syncs between a Linxu desktop and a Linux laptop (or two of whichever). Shouldn't matter which flavour of Linux either. Syncthing does similar stuff and it's on Mac and Windows, so maybe something involving that? Then when people get phones, just run the service on the Linux phone.
kde connect allows you to sync the (text) clipboard between a pc and a smartphone that are in the same network.
Cool! Does it do it automatically (once set up)?
There's a million different apps for this, and they add features on top like sharing one mouse, keyboard between devices, etc...
ClipCascade looks like it does the universal clipboard thing.
Available on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android (no iOS due to Apple restrictions).
The server/relay component can be self-hosted too.