Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.
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Never. Sometimes it’s a pain, but I can live with that.
People complain at something not working are missing the point.
It’s open source. You spot something you don’t like, change it.
Learn to code, contribute, fix things.
There is very little stopping you.
Been using linux for more than 10 years as a less technical user, and yeah pretty regularly.
Its still my OS of choice, but theres a fair bit of jank around the corners you interact with less and places where the GUI methods for things just kinda fall short.
But I like having an OS that shows me tech treating me with dignity and respect is possible. So many problems in this world are hard to know how we might solve, but technology that treats me justly is a thing I can have today, and given its actually able to meet my needs, thats pretty cool ☺️❤️
There’s an insane amount of jank people are just used to with windows that blends into the background since that’s just the way it is. I notice it more and more at work. Simple things like quality of life features just don’t exist in windows, and the usual reasons are:
A) backwards compatibility jank
B) we’re a monopoly, get fucked
C) fuck you! that’s why.
And there’s simply no way to circumvent it. At least on Linux I have multiple solutions typically since I am person # 9431007 to have this exact problem, and someone deeper into the autism spectrum than me made a FOSS solution to it.
All the time. I run both windows and linux desktops side by side windows is leaps and bounds better as a desktop idk what people are talking about they must only browse the web if they think this shit competes with windows at all. Im disappointed in windows too but it’s not the same there isn’t people claiming it is the best thing ever so there is not as high expectations. And just to clarify I have been using linux since I was little it isn’t some foreign thing to me. Look at all these comments “great BUT” yea the buts are why it isn’t great.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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-socketfailed, 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.
If you’re not disappointed at something with Linux, you’re lying to yourself.
And I love Linux and wouldn’t use anything but.
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.
The number of things that want you to run a bash script to install is way too damn high.
I’ve also started to see more things recommend installation using homebrew on Linux.
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.
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
lsblknot work? I checked on my machine and it shows the correct path, assuming you know your stick issdbor whatever. Something likelsblk -o MODEL,MOUNTPOINTis (generally) a bit more clear but admittedly getting into the ‘pain’ territory.
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.
