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I use a TV as my monitor which only has HDMI inputs in combination with an AMD card. No HDMI 2.1 thanks to the HDMI Forum. Fuck the HDMI Forum.
Audio output over HDMI breaks when the PC goes to sleep. Need to shut the PC down to make it work again. Restarting it doesnt solve the issue.
Here and there some websites break slightly more often on Linux compared to Windows. Both with Firefox.
VR already was a troubleshooting sinkhole on Windows. On Linux its a bit worse. BUT it gets better every month and i'm amazed how well it already works tbh.
KDE doesnt let me resize the PIP window of Firefox on all of its sides. I heavily use this feature on a daily basis. I got used to it. But it was paaaaaiiiin the first few weeks.
Sometimes something breaks and CachyOS just doesnt want to shut down and i need to get the pillow to physically kill the PC.
I atleast had more hard system crashes than on Windows. Sometimes i feel like just the RAM fills up and in 70% of times only a reset helps. On the other hand killing rogue programs which dont want to hand me back the desktop like on windows arent an issue at all anymore.
Button mappings on my g27 racing wheel are out of order with seemingly no fix. Its a really minor issue. But still...
The documentation for certain things is still just utter ass. Sometimes i read through the most technically complex official docs ever for an hour without finding my answer. Then give up and ask in forum/chat/discord and its like: oh yeah just type "yorking" and if your done "exit". Which wasnt mentioned once anywhere else.
Anything else was just getting used to a new OS and learning new things. Which can be painful but isnt a Linux issue.
Overall super happy. Its a pretty big post but i could write a book series with my Windows issues...
Regarding the racing wheel have you looked at Input Remapper? It's not the same, but I use a Razer Tartarus game pad and Input Remapper has faultlessly remapped the keys to whatever I want.
I dont remember exactly which programs i looked at. But most remapping tools i found seem be made for keyboards, mice, xbox pads etc and often create an emulated output device which may conflict with the Force Feedback/beeing a Wheel from my understanding. You can reorder the buttons with jstest-gtk though. But that wont persist through a reboot which made me really sad.
At first i thought that it would really annoy me and looked several hours into it. But tbh its alright. Most games let you remap your controls freely either way. In one game menuing is a bit borked because i cant remap those menu controls. But even that is okayish.
Either way, thanks for the suggestion! I bookmarked Input Remapper just in case a game really needs remapping in the future.