cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
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.
Lmao. The scroll bar in this thread is fucking microscopic.
The peoples os right…
And the near complete lack of upvotes is really telling too
Linux phones when? I personally don’t have any issues but one thing that would be nice is how to make Linux dumber and idiot proof for the average consumer
I have a lenovo W530 laptop on a lenovo docking station with two external monitors via the docking stations two dvi ports. Just worked in win10 allowing all three screens to be different or spanned.
Is there any guide or plan on how to set this up on mxlinux 25? I’ve looked a bit but not a gui expert.
In general linux has been my daily driver since Slackware but this type of problem is my pain point.
- Because of Nvidia Driver I can’t enable Safe boot from BIOS.
- Latest Mainline kernel often won’t install with current Nvidia driver because of GCC version mismatch.
In short, it’s the old problem maker - Nvidia GPU Linux driver. And, unless the whole thing becomes open source, there is no end to this problem.
Struggling to get my dev environment setup on nixos. A bit of a tutorial gap for LEAN4 and sagemath in particular.
No autohotkey style automation, in particular I miss hotkeys that would move the mouse. Kmonad has done a ok job of rebinding keys, though it doesn’t convert a held key into multiple inputs afaik.
Some VR games on steam are also a bit rough, possibly a graphics driver problem? (Though I would be just as happy for a Linux optimized resonite competitor.)
Just submitted a bug report to KDE for Discover where
apt updatefailed behind the scenes due to Synaptics changing some value in their repo. It just needed a confirmation [y/n] to continue, figured someone would want to do it.Upgrading distros after a couple years of stagnation is a huge pain point. Why can’t i skip versions in the middle?
Also for some strange reason, my both my PC and laptop with ubuntu freezed multiple times during update. Even while copy a large number of files, it happened. The workaround was to use tty thingy and skip UI completely.
Also, lack of proper errors could be another thing, while updating my distro, I kept getting strange errors that linux-firmware could not be updated. It took multiple bricks (including breaking filesystem and booting with usb to fix it) for me to realize the issue was, i was using a custom kernel mod for wifi devices that I installed 6 years ago cuz of a bug in kernel (which was fixed in versio 6.1+ i believe) and the error it was giving was reaaaally not helpful
Printing.
Windows drivers are so fancy, with previews and a billion options, while Linux gets a randomly ordered list of raw options in a drop-down menu and that’s it
Exhibit A:
The same, but in Windows:
I always liked the Linux ones over Windows. No random bullshit depending on who made the drivers, just a solid set of options.
Could do with being prettier through.
But dev don’t listen complains…
They are elitist, validist, authoritarian and meritocrats
It’s useless… 🤷♀️ 😬
There are a lot of things that bother me and could be improved:
Lacking Hardware support for Fingerprint readers: in my Lenovo Yoga 370 i could not (for gods sake) get the Fingerprint reader to work. But I gave up trying a couple years ago. So it might be working now but i don’t know. I know its not the OS fault because it is just missing key Materials and driver support from the manufacturer. But in the end I don’t care whose fault it is. It does not work, and that bothers me.
Not easy to use TPM for LUKS: why doesn’t the installer of any distribution use the TPM module for storing the decryption key for LUKS. Or at least make it an option. They are made for that! TPM is not your enemy. Use them to help you! Better to use TPM (with exported strong recovery key) instead of having no encryption at all or a weak password.
Proper Backup and rollback Baker info the distro: why was only Opensuse able to have an integrated solution for backup and rollback of OS changes and updates? MacOS has this since years (maybe decades…)
No parental control features: Plesse give me things like settings usage time limits and APP access limitation for specific user accounts. I know I can somehow do this via Polkit. But this is not user friendly and too complicated for typical use cases. I am very happy that GNOME is currently working in a solution for this in GNOME 50 (Propably)
I forgot I used to use face unlock, the linux alrernative was alright but didnt use the ir sensors like windows did so linux one only worked while my room was bright, I got used to not turning my lights off at night just to swap distros and idk if itll even work on bazzite
Would still have to use the password or disable the wallet manager too
My Bluetooth devices constantly drop in and out of connection. And that’s once they’re paired, pairing in the first place is a PITA and always takes multiple tries, and very often things unpair overnight so I have to re-pair frequently. I have three computers running Mint and they all do this with all Bluetooth connections.
My Mac had no such issues, you pair something one and it’s stuck like glue till you unpair it, and even automatically re-pairs after a reboot no problem.
I don’t have the connection drop in/out problem(s), but something like nine times out of ten I, too, need to
bluetoothctl connect <MAC address>twice for my headphones to actually connect. It’s all the more frustrating because bluetoothctl’s prompt will adjust after the first connection (*attempt) - if it weren’t for the headphones themselves not acknowledging the connection I’d have no idea why no sound would be coming from them.Had this happen with both, the Qualcomm and the MediaTek wifi7 chips when they came out. Took years for a fix in the driver. Vendor support for linux drivers is sadly still bad.
Shortcuts (symlinks). Cannot work out why the fuck they are not appearing on a shared drive. The folders are, but the symlinks inside? Nada. Source is accessible and mounted
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.
What’s your window manager and what issue are you having with HDR?
I got a quest 3 so my options on how to run it are limited to begin with, and I don’t know how native VR devices run on Linux. But i hope general support will improve with valves next VR headset since it will run Linux natively.
What issue are you facing with VR? try lvra.gitlab.io
I’ve followed their guides and I still haven’t managed to get it up and running with steamvr or monado. The one time I got picture in the headset I was in the floor and I haven’t managed to get picture again since.
For me it’s that ‘can make it work’ != ‘want to spend hours researching to make it work’
If you have a well supported use case Linux is great, if you need to do some things that rely on proprietary drivers, old software, etc it’s a pain
I like the ux in some common windows utilities a lot more than I like their Linux alternatives. I prefer nano zip over the default app that came with my distro.
Default video settings caused going to console to be use a comically oversized font for my large monitor. I remembered how to change fonts sort of, but couldn’t for the life of me remember how to change the resolution. Internet searches had results of mixed quality. Pretty difficult to distinguish instructions for the old boot loader versus the current one. Set the res finally, but it didn’t work. One of the commands I tried did seem to work, but then it caused the advanced graphics to disappear and video transcode suffered. Finally I found the answer I should have used all along: sudo dpkg reconfigure (some package I can’t remember now)
And everything is like that. You want to do something, you better get educated. It’s great for hobbyists, but I find as I get older I just want it to look right and do the thing, so I choose windows from the grub menu and forget I even have it for weeks.
It’s great when everything is supported and works and you like the application and you’d spent sixteen hours theming your desktop and and and … but ain’t nobody got time fo dat
full handwriting input…
already whined about it here with a handwriting example to show what my regular input on windows is. i basically used a wacom drawing tablet as my primary input and barely touched the keyboard at all.
