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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.
kwin_wayland is currently using 2125Mb VRAM and 6268Mb GTT.
has your system been running for some while? i have observed this behaviour in niri (a separate wm) as well, and seemingly, it is not a issue. if i understand it correctly, for any app that had vrma allocated, and is closed it's vram is not cleared correctly (on amd i gpu) and that usage just gets added to wm (the host program). if it is not using much gpu (check any app which shows usage), then it is just a reporting issue. like when i fresh boot, my wm uses 100MiB of vram, but with time, it becomes 2GiB and stays there, but i still can open stuff which requires vram. kinda like buffered ram, which is still allocated, but available to use.
That seems unusually high, I've got a few graphical effects enabled and it's just barely scratching 100MiB VRAM on my machine.
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 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...
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...
not really a linux issue more of an application issue but I use Remmina for work and it crashes a couple times a day and that's annoying. For a while Ubuntu didn't have the GNOME changes that keeps the remote RDP session running when the client disconnects and I'd have to re-open all my remote applications a few times a day. I was expecting to have to wait till 26.04 to get that but a few weeks ago that update reached my work laptop and now I mostly have parity to how my old Windows work laptop worked.
That does sound annoying. I would hope there is a fix for such a regular crash. Fwiw, I've had a totally positive experience with Rustdesk for rdp through VPN.
tell me more of this rusty desk
Haha, I actually talked about it on my podcast at 28:17 of my podcast here. I use the rustdesk clients through a selfhosted server I access through VPN, which has been great while out of the office. I find it simple enough to use, so no real complaints.
I'm confused about Flatpaks :c The flatpak version of PhpStorm was the easiest way to install it, but because it's isolated from the rest of my system it couldn't really talk to the php version that's globally installed on my machine. I couldn't really figure out how to get the php version into the flatpak, so I installed it in some different way. Not a huge hassle, and I bet I'll understand it some day, but I did feel pretty dumb haha
You could install Flatseal and use it to give PhpStorm full access to your disk.
When the update process feel so perilous that I pray every time that my system reboots to the desktop safely, because the pain of troubleshooting the issue for 4 or more hours still haunts me (Nobara linux).
And I'm not new to linux, but because it works as expected 95% of the time, that 5% where it doesn't work stands out so much more.
I recently experienced a failed update on my laptop running arch, where the laptop lost power for some unknown reason, and bricked my system. I was so tired of this shit that I just downloaded cachy OS and wiped the disk, installed the OS and called it a day.
I know not everything is the fault of linux, but man . . . . There's too many small problems to count . . . The fragmentation of application UI frameworks, GNOME this, QT that, GTK there, wlroots here, wxWidgets over there . . . . KWin randomly crashing, scripts that should just be a part of the WM instead of breaking with every update, lack of standardization of UI menu structures, wayland being great but still not good enough for production environments, THE UTTER LACK OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS FOR AUDIO PRODUCTION ON LINUX, WHYYYYYYYYYYYY
For me, I think a really interesting take would be if Linux had a stronger office suite — meaning IT could more easily justify being a “Linux shop.” Active Directory + Microsoft Office 365 is the killer combination that leaves so many professionals saying “just use Microsoft.” Then it’s so much more natural to just issue everyone a Windows machine, and keep it that way because it’s already set up that way. If Linux could bolster itself to impress a similar level of confidence in IT professionals at the office, I think we’d see many more jobs willing to let their staff work on Linux (or even choose it exclusively for the business).
There would need to be corporations that can accept the same levels of liability Microsoft does, but for Linux. For many organizations, it comes down to who’s liable for what theoretical issues.
There would need to be corporations that can accept the same levels of liability Microsoft does, but for Linux.
There are. Red Hat, Canonical and SUSE. All of them offer workstation versions of the OS with paid support and all the enterprise stuff you need.
It's really mostly the networking effect that keeps Linux out of that space. Huge macro-filled Excel sheets that run important tasks, customers sending in .docx files, specialized enterprise software that only runs on Windows because everyone uses that, and most importantly, none of the employees outside of IT having any Linux experience.
I've met small business owners who wanted to switch but couldn't, because all the applicants for secretary/HR/accounting positions noped out when they were told they'd have to use LibreOffice.
Thermaltake Riing fan controller needs special python software. It worked fine from RPM in Fedora 42, but it hasn't been updated for Fedora 43 yet. Tried installing with pip, and creating a systemd service, but it didn't work immediately, and haven't had time to fuss with it again. Probably just going to get new fans I can control through mobo.
Was using default Fedora gnome, but it started getting into hibernation loops. Swapped to KDE, but I'm not sure I cleaned up the gnome install perfectly.
I wish my Mint wouldn’t freeze so hard it blocks out all input.
100% agreed. Why is this even possible
Running Windows in VMWare Workstation: I do development work that really has to be done in Windows, so that's where I spend my day. Even on my Windows machine, I keep the dev environment in a Virtual machine so that I can go anywhere with it, or use if from any machine with VMWare loaded.
I find myself having to stay booted into my Windows Drive to run VMWare without a bunch of lag / weird issues. So at that point I just kept working from that drive and don't really boot back to the Linux drive.
I also seem to have a heck of a time seeing files on my NTFS drives from Linux.
Some of this is probably the older Nvidia card that I have, and the fact that I run 3 monitors, and running VMWare on 3 monitors acts weird in Linux.
Not daily, but sim racing. Game and peripheral support is all over the place. Wheels/wheelbases generally need Windows to update firmware or adjust features.
Some games will detect wheel, pedals, handbrake, etc. no prob in Windows but not at all in Linux. Certain games need reg fixes in Windows that are more complicated to apply in Linux.
It’s a pain, and the best supported wheel is also one of the cheapest/poorest quality ones on the market (Logitech G29). If you have higher end DD gear or mix and match stuff, it can get complicated or unviable.
Utilizing TPM for full disk encryption.
I tried to install it on a friend's 2012 macbook air, but the wifi didn't work even after trying different distros and trying suggested answers like installing several additional wifi drivers.
I realize 2012 is a quite old machine, but the reality is that many (most?) people are going to be trying Linux for the first time on their very old computers. So having showstopper failures on old machines probably leads to a good amount of people thinking Linux doesn't work well.
Absolutely, especially because Apple is formally discontinuing support for Intel. Seems there are rumors of a new partnership between them in the future, but it is what it is.
Power management is awful on MacBook M1 using Asahi Fedora, other than that I have no complaints.
Wifi 6E on my Intel network cards has been a PITA on any distro I've used. 6ghz either doesn't work at all, or it constantly switches from 2.4/5 to 6ghz, then back to the point that Wifi is unusable, and I have to manually disable it. AX200, AX201, AX211 all suffering.