Linux

Music production if you’re using sampled virtual instruments (i.e. Kontakt) just isn’t viable. The VST bridges work fine for most stuff and there’s some great open source effects plugins and Linux-supporting synths around. Reaper works great, and JACK mostly works once you figure it out how to set it up. Sampled instruments though…

Still cannot recreate the responsiveness and auto-adapting resolution/DPI nature of Windows RDP in Linux. I want to be able to remotely connect from a laptop, desktop, etc and have it adapt to the client resolution and everything be clear and responsive and support keyboard shortcuts and re-up my existing session. Bandwidth isn't the issue here, typically 5+ gbps fiber. Have tried xrdp, various VNC clients, gnome remote desktop, nomachine, AnyDesk, rustdesk, parsec, etc.

This is actually the only thing holding me back.

I run multiple Linux VMs or LXCs (Debian, Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu...probably others) but making it my one and only primary just hasn't worked out.

I’d really like a cross platform clipboard with unlimited text clips that utilize a custom keyboard like PastePal.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clipboard-manager-pastepal/id1503446680

Nowhere. I am completely satisfied. My use case does not limit me.

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...

kwin_wayland is currently using 2125Mb VRAM and 6268Mb GTT.

Audio is the only thing holding me back. I have a pair of lucidsound LS51 headphones for gaming that I can't get working wirelessly. While the have Bluetooth, it's shit for latency and not workable for gaming.

That's it. Everything else works but until I buy replacement headset or find a way to convince Linux to pick em up and work it's still windows for me

Any good wireless headsets that folks know of that work Linux side?

I switched to Bazzite from Spectre Ghost Win 10 about 6 months ago.

The first problem i had, which was entirely my own doing, was that no games would work from Steam. Turns out, you can't run steam games from an NTFS hard drive, so reformatted and reinstalled.

Only two games that didn't work:

Planetary Annihilation, has problems with Wayland, fixable.

Fallout 4, single digit frame rate and input lag. Switched over to New Vegas rather than try and fight FO4.

Edit: I tried another distro before Bazzite, couldn't get Wi-Fi card to work, f-ing Intel...

T480s fingerprint reader has been inconsistent trying to log in when waking from sleep. It was working for months after I followed the instructions in the archwiki. I'll eventually have to dig into the logs to see why it only works sometimes.

Also I wish KDE night light integrated monitor brightness.

I spent many hours trying to find a fix for stuttering wireless (2.4 ghz) audio

I believe i managed it

But .. maybe not

Audio devices that are not prioritized or set to sleep is stupid. Stuttering audio or audio that cuts out is frustrating. Very frustrating.

Thats the biggest issue i have with linux.

Can't get an auto shutdown at a specific time working on Bazzite.

I have a few 5th and 6th Gen Intel laptops and mini PCs for my kids with games. Working well enough for the most part and PAM account login time limits what times if the day they can sign in but I want it to auto logout or even better force shut down at the end of the day instead of them staying up all night.

Most guides recommend using cron which is fine in general but it isn't available in Bazzite. Even when I tried installing it since it isn't included by default. Tried two different guides and an AI recommendation to do it via Systemd but that isn't working as mentioned at the top.

There are a few shit pieces of commercial software with license managers that refuse to work on Linux (or VMs on Windows, too).

I think the thing that's shifting attitudes these days - aside from the fact that stability has long since arrived on the Linux desktop - is that Microsoft has taken a nosedive in terms of functionality at the same time, with little to indicate that the situation will improve on their end.

A fully stable desktop that never breaks is not really on the table, but Linux is by far the most stable and user-centred one, at this point.