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.
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.