Linux

It is not Linux itself but:

• I dislike when something goes wrong with a program and the documentation is not clear on how to fix it. But I do not complain because it is understandable when developers write documentation they have to choose who's hand to hold, if they choose to help everyone then the documentation can get long and perhaps redundant.

• When one is a beginner and installs a distribution for the first time one can get scared by the splash screen showing errors which are 99% of the time safe to ignore (e.g showing that a device was not found). I know its important for developers and advanced users to know all this info but it can make beginners feel so damn scared (like me).

• Naming, like in the general sense, it seems like many software have some ridiculous names (dolphin, ncmpcpp, gimp, foot, gnome). Very subjective, I know, but in the end I love and hate these names.

• Bluetooth... yeah.

Total lack of stability, not in "crashing programs" but in the entire idea of "throw it all out and start over" that seems to 100% infest every single Linux developer every few years.

Not to mention the total loss of every single bit of UNIX philosophy over the years.

"Everything's a file." ? Not according to Linux, not any more.

All the various *ctls necessary to run and inspect your system have completely gotten out of control.

Hibernation should really soon work out of the box with Secure Boot on. Afaik chromeos was looking into that

Also paranoid people saying that e.g. all TPMs are made by the devil and will spy you to death lol

I hate that nobody recognizes Linux as a legit OS. But that is the same with many FOSS projects like LibreOffice. The format is not recognized in a lot of places, which is insane. Microsoft really have their marketing prefected

Smug and condescending users that started using Linux 2 months ago.

Same reason as the rest of the world: too complicated to use. Also pretty much all the DEs are ugly and dated, save for GNOME, in my opinion.

I hate that I've got to the point that if something goes wrong, I know it's 99.9% user error and can't blame anyone else.

Honestly, not much.

The first would be that the webcam in my work laptop goes in and out of working pretty regularly. It happens to the whole team so I know it’s not just mine. I end up using an external one pretty regularly. Mostly I’m annoyed at Dell for not providing proper driver support.

The second is that there are a very small number of applications that I occasionally use where I need to fire up a VM. But even that is more of I’m annoyed at the organization that forces me to use an obsolete proprietary file format once a quarter.

No three finger drag on Wayland

Ever clicked an icon in the taskbar and received a notification that the window was "ready" but it's still behind other windows? This shit drives me up the wall.

I hate being stuck in Dependency Hell thag happens sometimes when compiling programs, and other times when some vital hardware pieces like monitors, ethernet, sound don't appear to work.

It takes me an hour or more to get them working again, and makes me want to delete everything and reinstall the OS from scratch.

I miss executable files being as easy as on windows

Booting problems. Every once in a while, I get GRUB for no reason. Can’t find a boot disk that existed yesterday. WTF? Effing hate that sh!t.

Finally heard about immutability features like VanillaOS and might move to that…

Fedora Flatpaks needs to diaf. That is all.

Currently that it just shuts down hard when waking from sleep. I suspect its something to do with my monitor but haven't spent the time to work out why.

Poor VR support. I’d probably switch if it ever becomes stable.

I don't dislike much about Linux and do realize that most issues stem from major software developers simply ignoring its existence. Here are a few I had to scratch my head for:

1. Sub-par touchpad experience.

Touchpads on Linux are generally worse when it comes to palm rejection compared to Windows. Macbooks are on a completely different level.

Another thing missing is the scrolling acceleration, which is present on Windows and MacOS.

2. Wayland protocol development.

People who approve protocol proposals are very annoying and often stall critical protocols for years.

For some reason some Steam games invert my mouse wheel direction but don’t when ran in windows and I can’t figure out a per-application toggle for it.

Why things decided to try and undo 30 years of muscle memory I don’t know.

There are always problems with the global menu widget on Plasma. And recently it has been refusing to work as a single button, instead I have to switch to showing all options as separate buttons which looks terrible with my panel setup.

Also applications making packages that could have easily been optional, required, just because users will think the app has broken functionality otherwise. KDE Plasma handles this best by replacing setting pages in the setting app with a note with instructions and showing normal warnings in other apps.

Unreproducible, random bugs that can be temporarily solved by repeating your actions a bunch of times until it works. Drives me nuts, and they show up all over the place.

I would love to figure out how to make the back and forward buttons on my super basic logitech mouse work. Last I looked, I had to install some mouse configuration app and do some manual stuff to program the buttons. I gave up.