Linux

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.

The 4 year upgrade cycle is too short on one hand. On the other, critical software like Firefox is too old even then so I have to use a flatpack for that which does not integrate well. I am using Debian 12. The other option is that Mozilla does have a debian repo but that is harder to setup.

I find it weird that fingerprint auth and password auth aren't active at the same time. It's either one or the other which is really frustrating

When I log in to my desktop it sometimes freezes, sometimes crashes too and I have to either restart or go into terminal to restart the service. Happened in endeavourOS and now in cachyOS

And now in CachyOS on every start up my "open on start" applications open where my mouse is pointed instead of putting it where it was last on my monitors.

I'm on openSUSE Tumbleweed using KDE Wayland

Sometimes my session will freeze up and I have to switch to tty and back to the GUI session to fix it.

I run a windows VM through winboat and it works well enough but it is particularly jank in regards to having multiple or even just 1 program open at times.

Every time I mount a veracrypt drive, baloorunner starts eating up my memory until I run out and I might have to hard reboot

External web cams. Even those that are said to be fairly compatible have issues. And it's not with the cams, its v4l and the kernel drivers.

Apple guy here, so no, I don't use Linux. I have before, and I have off and on for about 30 years. I'm not subbed here, I browse /all and see a bunch of stuff. Thought this was worth replying to.

Like I would never tell an Android user they can't use a Mac because they wouldn't get Universal Clipboard, but dammit, that feature is so useful. Of course we don't have Linux phones but supposedly they're coming, and I'd be super interested in one. At one point it was important to have an iPhone because of privacy and power. But we hit a plateau years ago and it's all marketing bullshit now. Any flagship from the last 5-6 years is still pretty good. So until someone takes a step forward, might as well get a Linux phone, and it's gonna beat the iPhone to privacy.

So looking back to the Linux that exists today, I'd like to see an E2EE clipboard sync system that, for now, syncs between a Linxu desktop and a Linux laptop (or two of whichever). Shouldn't matter which flavour of Linux either. Syncthing does similar stuff and it's on Mac and Windows, so maybe something involving that? Then when people get phones, just run the service on the Linux phone.