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Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss (discuss.online)

submitted 6 days ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/linux@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 6 days ago (4 children)

As much as if saddens me to write it: the enterprise bullshit.

I'm not allowed to use Linux at work because it's more complicated than the out of the box experience of MacOS and windows in terms of remote management, encryption enforcement, company certificates and all this useless bullshit.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

yeah corporate environments continue to be a pain point. IT wants centralised management a la intune/GPE, i want to be able to use proper terminal tools for automation.

last time it came to a head i moved into a vm and refused to come out for two years.

[–] mech@feddit.org 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And I'm not sure why Linux doesn't excel in a centrally managed environment, since it descends from an OS that was designed from the ground up to be used by many users in an enterprise environment.

[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because Microsoft office

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 6 days ago

Office, teams, SSO, SharePoint... You get a very interesting package of features from Microsoft of you are a company. And most integrations with services exist for MS SSO, so its sadly easy.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago

Really just needs one vendor to provide a unified way of configuring and managing a fleet of laptops/desktops. All of the bits exist, just needs someone to bring it all together

[–] englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago

Some companies allow specific Linux distributions (like RHEL) only. Maybe that's something for your case too? At least there is "Enterprise" in "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" ;-)

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

About 15 years ago I used to run my work desktop Windows in a VMware instance on Linux. We had Redhat and VMware licenses too use. I swear it ran faster than on bare metal for some reason. I used VMware's virtual apps for Outlook and IE.

These days i just run what they hand me. No point getting on the bad side of the admins.