I couldnt even get it to work on chrome ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Can’t stream peacock to watch my motorsports. Resolved by unsubbing but I still wanna watch sometimes.

Things have gotten A LOT better since I started using it, but here’s a list of things I hate after using Arch with KDE as my main OS for almost 7 years:

• Not having an archive manager as good as 7-zip was on Windows. Ark is a good replacement but it supports less formats, has less options when compressing, and most importantly if you close the archive while extracting it silently fails (reported in 2019, still not fixed)
• You can’t make an account without a password (yes, I know I can configure the sudoers file and polkit to skip password prompts, but that’s not user friendly). For the average user, having to type the password after login is incredibly annoying, I would like to have something like the UAC prompt in Windows
• Wayland: it was made mainstream waaaay too early, causing a lot of issues with both Qt and GTK applications, some of which persist to this day, especially with fractional scaling and HDR
• Developers seem to think that I enjoy using the terminal: I don’t, I hate it. Why isn’t there a GUI for pacman supports the AUR and doesn’t suck?
• Random broken commits being pushed to stable. I’m talking about “how the f did you not notice this?” kind of bugs, like how I had to rename files twice in Dolphin before it would actually rename them. It was fixed quickly but how did this get into stable in the first place?
• Flatpak having its old ass version of mesa in the runtime, causing all sorts of issues if you have a newly released GPU. I stopped using it because of this

Minor issue is the vulken shaders that load before I play a game. Most of the time it’s quick and only done after an update but some games do take a long time.

Also having issues where Wine freezes up when running applications. Sometimes for close to two minutes before responding. I haven’t looked into this one yet as it just happened recently.

Bazzite with Nvidia GPU of this matters.

Non pain point not having the system install updates during my “focus” time and bringing the system to a crawl until I let it finish.

Using Mint for some years now, there are two main pain points for me. Both do not stop me from using Mint as my daily operating system, but they reduce convenience.

Default package repositories contain software versions that are long outdated (e.g. tmux, claws mail, neovim, libreoffice). Although this can usually be fixed by custom ppa or manual installation it decreases the benefits of a default package repository and causes additional maintenance efforts.

Laptop hardware / driver issues:

• When using nvidia graphics driver, FN+Fx keys do not change display brightness (although brightness hud is shown). When using xorg driver instead, these work, but the input for unlocking my luks volume at boot freezes and I cannot enter the password.
• FN+Fx does not enable/disable touchpad. I was able to fix this with a custom script and keybinding.
• Keyboard lighting cannot be controlled by OpenRGB and some other tools I tried, because the specific keyboard is not supported (yet?).

A recent update added 104ms to my boot time and I am SEETHING and will get to the bottom of this and make those responsible pay dearly.

• A udev rule that won’t work in my new distro (cachyos) for no apparent reason when it worked fine everywhere else

• Obs using way too much cpu for no reason even in a clean setup at idle

• Having to select what window will be captured to the obs canvas every time

• Having to swap active audio outputs until volume stops being too low at every restart.

That’s about all of it, I think.

Nothing but there were some gpu issues with sleep signals on the newest Debian release. As it’s an always on server I turned those flags off and it’s running normally.

I wish I had Paintdotnet but my daily usage sees Krita work.

Audio. As much as windows has issues, it is not hard to get good latency. The same process is it less accessible to most users. A reliable gui is needed.

VST’s and their associated DRM is a blocker but not the fault of Linux. The same is true for hardware that can only be properly configured with a windows or Mac only tool. These problems need a critical mass of users, and a legal requirement to support Linux for mainstream products. (EU, I’m talking to you)

I’ve been struggling to get Linux installed again. I had to reinstall Windows to even use the thing. I’m at a loss and really don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I’m deep in that Dunning-Kruger valley where I know enough to really mess things up and not how to fix them.

I have an Asus ROG gaming laptop from 2023. I had Ubuntu installed no problem, but when. I wiped my Windows drive, it wouldn’t boot anymore. Pretty sure I wiped the bootloader too, I’m not sure. I can install Bazzite or Ubuntu on my Asus ROG Ally no problem, but had an issue later on and reverted that back to Windows too.

I also run local servers for Phantasy Star Online and Minecraft, and the best way to run those has been through Windows. I never use that computer except for running the two servers, so I don’t really care what operating system is on it, but if I could install my servers, that would be ideal.

Intel Arc card. Though, to be fair, it’s only in a small few cases.

I’ve had frustation with the lack of support for some HP laptops. I have a HP Dragonfly 13.5-inch G4 Notebook and I haven’t been able to get my sound to work despite finding others who have gotten it to work. None of the people who got it to work were using simple installation or sources to get the sound to work.

Peripherals…

• A document scanner with pretty great Windows software that has features that are not nearly as easy to do with FOSS Linux software (splitting documents, auto cropping and alignment, OCR, etc)

• A 3D printer that doesn’t have Linux software, so I can’t easily send prints to it from Linux

• A webcam that supports device-level configuration (zoom, cropping, etc) but doesn’t have Linux software to control it

Apps, always with apps, most app in ubuntu store are not the latest version, nor reviewed or crypto signed for safety. Then you still have to deal with RPM or Deb or flatpack …

There is no good frontend for the clamav antivirus that is maintained! yes we may not need an antivirus but if you want one, you have to go command line. As an old ace developer, this is not an issue for me, but yeah at home I don’t want to use that knowledge nor can recommend linux to newbies.

Maybe a easy to use frontend for docker app is missing (nono I use portainer) but something more easier like the defunct CasaOS for beginner to install decentralized apps is also something that could promote Linux a lot. Ubuntu could also hide docker app in its store, just telling users that they should not let their notebook or computer go to sleep if they install server app like immich or jellyfin

On my specific setup (5700x3d, 5700xt) with the Vive gen 1 I can’t get it to run VR nicely. There is huge performance hitches compared to Windows. Only VR is like this most my non VR games see performance gains across the board.

Also, steamvr takes prohibitively long to load and frequently crashes. Half-Life, Alyx can’t get past a certain point in the game on Linux but runs past just fine on Windows. This feels like just a Linux driver issue. I’ve tried several distributions with the same problems.