Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
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.
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.
Lol I have a similar issue, with Debian on my AMD laptop. But for me it’s already on GNOME and it only manifests randomly -_-
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.
Have you seen the news about the Wine patch from a random GOATED dev that fixes the CC installer? Iirc they tested Photoshop so far and reports it’s “buttery smooth” so other Adobe softwares might not be too far behind!
Same here. Broken on KDE but not gnome.
Mobile
Would love to get this in US/Canada
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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.
x11vnchas 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
- It’s annoying to set up hibernate on Kubuntu and I can’t seem to figure out how to add it to the UI.
- i really miss the login UI of W11, just select pin, fingerprint, fido key or password. On kubuntu I have to unplug the fido key so it fails if I want to use my password. The UI also has no indication of wether I am entering the pin for the fido key or my linux password.
When fingerprint or whatever is setup as a PAM module for login it can decrypt your home folder, so you can do the initial login with it
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 crossposted this from .ml (but text posts like these don’t really crosspost well, which is why I tagged the original user instead for attribution) but it appears that the original user posted it themselves to like 3 other different comms, just on different instances so I didn’t notice lol
I wish amdgpu would get debugged so I didn’t have to save every thirty seconds whenever I do anything.
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 Developed a iOS App with xtool and its Not legal to use Linux for App Development.
Dang what’re they go a do? Send you to jail?
Block account
Multiplayer games in Civilizations VI take much longer to load on Linux Mint than they used to on Windows. Multiple minutes now vs about half a minute previously. Once loaded it’s fine, no noticable differences between old and new. The longer loading times do become quite annoying when we need to reload/reconnect due to networking issues.
Are you running the native version or through Proton? When I played Civ VI the Linux native version performed worse than using Proton, ironically. Either way, maybe try switching?
Since you specified multiplayer I’m guessing it’s not time to load from disk or anything.
I’m running it through proton, didn’t get the audio on the native version to work
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.
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.
Have you tried Remmina? It’s been a few years since I used it, but I remember it auto resizing fairly easily.
I use that and works fine with Windows remote hosts. The issue is Linux remote system doesn’t allow resizing.
When logging into Linux you can log into a new remote session that supports resizing, but if you try to log into the active local session then you can’t resize.
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.
Its so easy nowadays on Steam, and other clients like Lutris for GoG and Heroic for Epic Games. They care care of all the extra software to install to run Windows games.
You simply install the client, run the game. As simple as Windows. Plus the epic power of Linux. Its the best for new and older hardware.
I havent tried any competitive games or games with anticheat. Everything else I’ve tried works without any hiccups, including anno which uses the ubisoft launcher.
At the end of the day, im willing to give up gaming to flip Microsoft the bird.
As a gamer who did switch, curious what games are preventing the switch. In my experience sometimes it struggles with indie games only released for Windows that have probably been downloaded maybe 100 times at best; and probably as you know anything with kernel-level anticheat
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.
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
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.
