Linux

I use Fedora on a laptop, NixOS on my PC and Debian for the servers. It is better than Windows in almost every way. Except:

When connecting a bluetooth headset to the Fedora laptop, lock it for a break and unlock it again, the headset won't work. Only a few times bluetooth on and off helps, sometimes a whole restart. And connecting two devices the same time (like mouse + headset) can lead to both not working.

On NixOS/Hyprland Drag and Drop feels very wonky, for example re-arranging the toolbar in FreeCAD by drag and dropping the elements is more of a game of luck, if everything ends up in the place where it should be.

Getting the AMD-GPU to work with darktable always requires some time of tinkering, after setting up a new OS.

Not a real big issue, but sometimes (not all the time) when my Ubuntu OS (24.04.3 LTS) puts my desktop to sleep (automatically after 2 hours idle) when I go to wake it up it's as if I've rebooted. All my applications are closed, I have to login etc, but it doesn't really do a full boot sequence with the option to enter BIOS etc.

Like I said, not a big deal as I'm not (usually) dumb enough to leave unsaved work sitting around, but it is kind of annoying.

Unattended remote access under Wayland. I have multiple computers some headless and some with displays and I often like to remote into those from my other machines on my lan. With Xorg I used VNC. But with Wayland I have yet to find a reliable way to remote control a Wayland session without also sitting in front of the machine I’m trying to remote into.

Everything is working in my daily use. But there are still little things that pop up less regularly, mostly around hardware.

I've got a USB SSD that I can't use, because I need to "unlock" it in a windows device first. I can't even re-partition it in linux.

I can't update the firmware on my monitor because it can't simply be done with a USB stick and on screen menus, but actually requires a windows only application.

And when I first started daily driving linux, my Nvidia GPU was a regular source of frustration, but it's resolved now

Every one of these problems are because of manufacturers artificially locking hardware down, but they're still problems. One can only hope that a growing linux using consumer base will shift their priorities

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.

It doesn't make me coffee right before I wake up

I've been using linux since ubuntu 5.04 so I dont need converting, but from business perspective we would need Office M365 desktop apps and MDM support. Also autodesk products. Personally I use M365 in browser, but feature parity is not up to 100%.

I think when all win32 apps work, there will no longer be any reason for windows.

Just slap a win7/win10 classic gui over it with some animations and we're going finally decimate all the other options for good.

Secure boot and wireless controllers are basically mutually exclusive. Unless I compile and sign the drivers myself, which is certainly a "do at your own risk" operation. Most people don't use secure boot, so the error doesn't pop up unless you dig for a while.

This has been driving me nuts and if anyone can shed any light on it I will be eternally grateful.

I am trying to install SketchUp Pro 2021. According to WineHQ it has a gold rating and two testers claim to have installed it without issue, but following their instructions doesn't help.

I am running the latest Mint with Wine 11.0. I've created a 64bit prefix running as Windows 8.1, installed .NET 4.8, had to manually install vcrun2017 because something has changed and the checksum fails in Winetricks. I try to install SketchUp and get Invalid Handle errors mainly to do with a KB2999286 check (Universal C Runtime update).

So I download the KB2999286 msu and tell Winetricks to run it, but it says there's no associated program. Maybe I need the Windows Update API? So I download that, which actually appears to be WinXP SP3 and fails to install. I'm just about ready to give up on this whole experiment. Is there something I'm clearly missing? Is the C Runtime Update hidden in a component I haven't installed?

Less problems with Linux specifically, but they are minor issues that are annoying

Streaming to discord causes slight stuttering. It may have gotten better recently honestly, I haven't been streaming anything performance heavy enough to notice. Could try one of the 3rd party clients, but then can't have a universal mute/deafen bind so I'm not worrying for now.

I can't boot sunshine because I went with 25.04 and they don't have native builds for that, flatpak is not being nice with compatibility either. Technically I probably could make it work, but too much effort when steam is good enough for streaming metaphor refantazio to the tv for now.

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 want Autokey back. It doesn't work in Wayland and I haven't really found a solution that does that feels worth the bother.