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.

There are a few shit pieces of commercial software with license managers that refuse to work on Linux (or VMs on Windows, too).

I think the thing that’s shifting attitudes these days - aside from the fact that stability has long since arrived on the Linux desktop - is that Microsoft has taken a nosedive in terms of functionality at the same time, with little to indicate that the situation will improve on their end.

A fully stable desktop that never breaks is not really on the table, but Linux is by far the most stable and user-centred one, at this point.

My personal top 3:

Video Editing - Kdenlive isn’t bad in and by itself but it seems really slow to work with, and getting any kind of smooth preview seems impossible even with proxy clips … the other day I bought a GoPro 3D camera, and I can cut, preview, rotate, reframe and encode with their Android app on my potato phone from 2021, and it feels snappy (I was surprised, really). Yet on my i7 laptop with Kdenlive, much simpler tasks feel much more sluggish on average …

CAD - I use OpenSCAD for 3D modeling and I love it, but sometimes a GUI-Based CAD program would be nice. I’m sure FreeCAD is powerful but the UI/UX aspect makes it hard to unlock that power. I’m a bit conflicted about it because I really don’t want to play down the efforts of the FreeCAD dev team, and it seems like everyone and their mothers talk badly about their UI/UX. But on the other hand I tried a couple times and got really frustrated, and I’m usually not one to shy away from steeper learning curves. Supposedly you can do CAD in Blender but I never really figured that out.

Laser cutting - While most slicers for 3D printers work on Linux, Lasercutting seems a different story. You can still use older versions of Lightburn but it’s not FLOSS and it seems strange to pay for a license if the support for your OS has been discontinued 2 versions ago (or one, not sure right now). I want to give Rayforge (https://rayforge.org/) a try soon but until then it’s LaserGRBL or the program that came with my laser cutter on a virtual machine.

Honorable mention: A linux phone would be nice.

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 wouldn’t call myself an “avid” user but I have been using it for about 6 years.

My pain points would be the current driver support on new laptops. Nothing they can do but it’s always been a pain in the ass to encounter some broken ACPI kernel implementation that for example doesn’t call a required Microsoft Modern Standby extension or fails to bring a computer out of suspend.

My other issue isn’t really an issue, but installers need to have you enter all information and then just walk away. None of “do you want to participate in the package survey” after a super lengthy download. Debian is the worst of these offenders and I can’t believe no one on their team has ever tried to fix it in the years it has been around.

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.

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

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

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.)

But dev don’t listen complains…

They are elitist, validist, authoritarian and meritocrats

It’s useless… 🤷‍♀️ 😬

Just submitted a bug report to KDE for Discover where apt update failed 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

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)