Linux

Why am I seeing like 5 different posts like these, all of the sudden? They're all the same, literally same title, just posted by different users.

I really wish there was a good remote desktop method that supported attaching to my "local" session but keeping the displays locked. Similar to how windows RDP works.

If I have to remote into my work machine from home, I have XRDP setup to make a separate session that I can have run simultaneously to my local session. It's fine, but if I could use the existing local session that would be superb (without unlocking my local displays while I'm not there is the big point)

GNOME has RDP/VNC abilities, but in my experience a) the screen has to be awake, or else it becomes none responsive, b) it only worked with one monitor IIRC, and c) it unlocks the local display. x11vnc has issue C.

I think KDE is working on improved Wayland RDP? Haven't seen if it satisfies this. Sadly though, my work IT doesn't support Wayland

I only really have two pain points, one of which isn't the fault of linux, and the other that probably is.

First: Adobe shit. I depend on Adobe Lightroom. This is entirely on Adobe. I know about the alternatives, but apparently I suck and can't get good at them. I keep a Mac laptop around just to use this application. I tried screwing around with Wine and VMs to get it working, but it's pretty useless without GPU acceleration, and so far the only way to get that in a VM is to have a second dedicated GPU just for the VM. Plus, that still requires keeping a Windows installation around.

Second: Wake from sleep. Just doesn't work properly on my desktop PC running Fedora 43 with KDE. AMD CPU and GPU, etc. The computer does wake up but the display never does, and nothing short of a hard power cycle seems to make it recover. Works just fine on my Thinkpad which is running the same environment, also all AMD but with just whatever AMD integrated graphics came with the CPU in that case.

Having chatted with some other people experiencing the same thing with similar hardware setups and F43 with KDE it apparently doesn't manifest if using GNOME, just KDE. For now I just have the desktop set to turn off the display when idle but to not put the machine to sleep. I am a KDE enjoyer, GNOME does not float my boat.

I Developed a iOS App with xtool and its Not legal to use Linux for App Development.

Fedora: requires some rework of Nvidia drivers to wake the screen back up from sleep. Updating GPU drivers does nothing to improve game rendering so frame rates for games of yesteryear on a RTX3080 were single digit. Required some changes to h264 drivers just so I could see videos on YouTube or Dailymotion while simultaneously messing with my VLC install. My VPN blocks off my subnet whenever it's on so I can't access my NAS.

CachyOS (Arch fork): drivers for my printer aren't available without compiling them myself which did not go well. My preferred 3d printer slicer is difficult to install but that's because I'm a total noob when it comes to installing anything from GitHub. My VPN blocks off my subnet whenever it's on I can't access my NAS.

So far ChachyOS has given me the best experience out of a few other distros like Mint or Bazzite.

I wish amdgpu would get debugged so I didn't have to save every thirty seconds whenever I do anything.

My usb audio volume mixer which only has software support for Windows, the folks who made it specify they are available for support but FAQ says that only the windows support will ever be offered. It's simple and does everything I need it to without being cumbersome, has 5 programmable knobs and buttons.

Afaik from what I've looked up there is no way to get usb hardware and win device drivers to interface with software run through wine. Was disappointed because it's honestly such a key part of my setup atp. Not really linux's fault so much as the developers not wanting to deal with it, was a niche limited time thing from a small team so I don't blame them but still a bummer.

For me it is missing good and easy setup software for trading. Yes some platforms run in browser, but the experience is not that great as native app. Maybe some find their setup that is OK for them, but for now I haven't figured this out for me as I want specific broker(EU) and broker with API access and some 2FA security. Not that many options as I'm used to on Mac or much more options on Windows. Maybe I've found that SaxoBank broker with TradingView integration might work for me, when trading on larger timeframes(hourly and more), but if I wanted to trade on low timeframes(3mins candlesticks etc.) then it's unusable for me as TradingView updates prices slowly and I need faster update of ticks and candles. TradingView is also american software, so I would rather not use that too as I'm trying to get rid of as much american software/goods as possible. I was having problem running Metatrader or cTrader through Wine, but it was some time ago and I might try that again. In some time it will settle and I'll find the proper setup for me, but not ideal for now.

Gaming is the only thing stopping me from completely getting rid of windows forever, its slowly getting there. I feel powerful with my hands on a terminal, only the sky is the limit on what I can do, where as powershell makes me want to start chain smoking.

I feel like my CPU isnt boosting. I check btop and turbostar and zcpu and they always report the cores at 3700hz or under. The 5600x should be able to boost a core up to 4.6gz.

It doesnt matter cause my preformance is amazing already but i want to get maximum preformance from my hardware and boosting for single threaded preformance is huge.

Daily usage? I have some audio issues. It "feels" like the whatever resets/reinitializes. Really quickly though, playback isn't being interrupted. Sometimes it switches to a dead output channel though and I have to reset it to the actually connected output. Too lazy to diagnose it.

As a longer standing point of annoyance, I find it very difficult to quickly go UI -> package name -> bug tracker -> bug report. For understandable reasons devs don't exactly advertise their bug trackers, they're always a bit obfuscated and have some barriers.

Color management continues to not work correctly, although that may be due to some x11 wayland conflict. I have a dark color theme preference and certain applications that aren't directly available as package, but e.g. via flatpack don't integrate well. Gnome calendar is something I can name, without wanting to blame the devs of that piece of software in particular. They're doing their best, it's not a priority, maybe not even an issue on their preferred config.

I also have some freeze crashes, although that's more recent, might be a harddrive/hardware issue that throws off something very low level. But the reboot is so quick I barely mind that.

grub rescue:>

Edge case but Remote Desktop doesn’t work the way I like it.

I like being able to remote connect to my windows PC and it auto resizes the desktop to match the local system. Plus then I can log onto the remote machine directly and it resizes to be correct for the attached monitor.

I haven’t found a Linux that does this.

On bazzite

• Can't change my Plymouth boot screen

• Can't set animated icons in toolbar (KDE)

• The screen transition I chose is glitchy

• The translation tries VERY hard to be different from windows (idk what's up with that as on other system it was normal(propably, I would need to make sure))

• I don't know how to run containers from within containers, but that's a skill issue. (I wanted to build piefed from distrobox)

For the longest time I had to disable manually a module so my graphics tablet would work. It was fixed a month ago!

Right now I'm running Win 10 through QEMU/KVM to run printing software to print photos properly on my fancy Canon inkjet printer. I can't for the life of me find a software that will print borderless 4"x6" photos properly. Or even just print images on paper!

I'm using Kubuntu 24.04 btw.

No fingerprint login. Its frustrating that in all cases I can use my fingerprint instead of a password except when booting up my laptop.

Also, QOL and stability features would be nice. Buttons that dont work shouldn't be visible, for example, and getting a useful error message from many apps can be a headache.

Recently, I had a problem where amy app using electron suddenly stopped working at all. When ran with the terminal, it showed 2 errors, neither of which told you how to fix the issue. Eventually I figured out that using flatseal to force all apps to use wayland fixed the issue and made things smoother as well.

I cant get my epson ecotank et2710 to work under arch/endevaouros.