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 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
I wish amdgpu would get debugged so I didn’t have to save every thirty seconds whenever I do anything.
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
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
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.
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
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
Mobile… I want a Linux phone 😭
@Sprocketfree @cm0002 the problem is not that they don’t exist it’s that they barely have apps.
linux and the DEs dont make it easy to write apps for, this is a compositor/window manager/de issue to solve.
Want to write an for gnome? Javascript or c++. Enjoy libadwaita. Want to write for kde? C++ only. Dont want to write js and you only know kotlin/swift/java/objc? Tough fucking shit, get fucked. Want to write rust? Not supported by kde or gnome ootb, the learning resources are bare etc. Oh and for kde you have to learn QT as well have fun:)
Itd be cool if rust was the baseline standard for writing apps and was fully supported by the major DEs. I honestly cannot be bothered to learn C++ just to make a tiny app for my desktop, I will never use it again in my life because it is dying.
@dreadbeef C bindings can be used on Rust so Gnome should be easier. I find QTs lack of AT-SPI to be a non starter. Also nothing says you need to use gnome or it if you’re making your own mobile first compositor.
right, but popular (and valid imo) complaint about mobile on linux is the lack of apps. GUI applications either have to bring their own GUI toolkit (slint/qt/etc) or use the one provided by the host (the DE on linux). Like all of linux, its very fragmented at the moment, and theres no clear leader
@dreadbeef super valid point. I do believe having a Wayland compositor that just reformatted the app via ST-API would be a massive first step. It would force accessibility and dynamic sizing. Given only Gnome has ST-API built in. Qt is just a mess for accessibility
I know… And I’m sad
- 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
I guess the biggest thing I’m missing right now is VR gaming.
But since my VR googles need WMR to work, I wouldn’t be any better off with Windows 11 either.
I’m looking forward to the Steam Frame, hopefully it’ll support SteamOS out of the box
I would be a lot more excited if I wasn’t worried it was going to cost +$1,099. I hope that I am wrong.
that is just for the memory
They said they are shooting for less than the price of the index so that’s $999 or less, not sure if they will reneg on that due to ram prices.
It’s also unclear if they’re comparing it to the cost of the index with or without the Lighthouses.
We’ll just have to wait and see.
Same. Quest 2. Fedora 43. 5700X3D / 9070 XT. Steam Link can’t find AMD video decoder on the pc to run. ALVR has death wobble-like reprojection jitter. WiVrn works when Envision feels like it, which is never as it constantly errors out compiling due to some dependency I can’t find for the life of me.
I know compiling from source is preferred as “the linux way”, but I would like to spend more time actually using my pc than fixing it. There’s no reason the VR software needs to be recompiled just to change a setting. Maybe bake in the ability to change settings instead of hardcoding everything.
Wine would be super helpful if they can find way to make older (2019 and older) Quickbooks run reliably. Lots of small businesses locked into old platforms because the accountants or the people who do accounting themselves can’t learn how to use anything else, and the linux alternatives require a phd in linuxology to learn and don’t offer the easy business-in-a-box functionality.
Waydroid is neat, but poorly integrated in the desktop. It runs as a full screen app, and doesn’t task switch easily.
Please, Valve, make Steam a 64-bit native client! So few people use 32-bit systems that the few that do probably aren’t running Steam to save on memory.
Pipewire audio devices and webcam support needs to be smoother. I’ve never seen so much console shim hacks just to get a virtual webcam working.
I haven’t even begun to try my NXT Gladiator flight stick in linux… that might be a whole nother can of trouble to open.
I had the same issue as you with steam link and my 7800xt. Putting this in my launch args for SteamVR fixed it
RADV_PERFTEST=video_decode,video_encode DRI_PRIME=1 ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh %command%and if you try that and get a different error code from before, ( I think it was like 1033) swap your mesa drivers to the freeworld variety. That should besudo dnf swap mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers-freeworld.The only thing is, steamvr can’t display your desktop properly if you’re using wayland, it simply doesn’t support it. BUT here’s a cool project that can help you work around it, for some reason there’s currently a bug with their pipewire implementation (or something like that) such that you have to manually connect the display streams in the coppwr pipewire gui (helvum and carla don’t work), otherwise it’ll only show one frame of the display stream.
y’know what, I’m actually gonna make a post about this, since it took me many hours of searching forums to find this solution.
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I’m using Fedora KDE, and for the first time in my life, an upgrade (42 to 43) completely borked the system, in a way that I couldn’t boot to anything else other than a kernel panic.
I had to boot up a live USB, mount and chroot into the old system, and manually fix each duplicated / corrupted package. And it still caused every now and then some weird issue with dnf, so in the end I just reinstalled the entire OS.
I feel like updates “offered” via a nice and convenient gui shouldn’t really do this out of nowhere - and I wasn’t the only one to report this in the past half year.
I found on the 42->43 upgrade, Wine 32-bit was removed, and the upgrader errors out instead of fixing it. Wht I did to fix was immediately, manually (via dnf) uninstall wine*, then immediately run the upgrade again, and it fixed itself, finishing the upgrade with 64-bit Wine installed.
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.
Not that it’s Linux fault, but access to and compatibility with popular creative tools like Ableton or Adobe products.
Sure, it’s feasible to use Wine to run these products, but not in any professionally usable manner.
Yes, I am aware there are Linux-friendly alternatives, but they lack the plugins, compatibility, features, and quality of their industry~standard counterparts.
I second this. I use Gimp, but it’s UI and UX is just the worst I’ve ever seen. (It has some great tiny features here and there, though.)
I hope this situation would improve over time, and I’d try to contribute as much as I can. So, fingers crossed. Otherwise, I’m quite happy with Linux being my primary OS for many years.
This plugin might help you https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
Thanks, I use it, but I could mention it, so it’s great you did! To me, Gimp became usable, I cannot stand its interface without it!
I agree, GIMPs UI is pretty nasty. Same as LibreOffice Writer, but I still use them.
