My installation of arch broke, kept breaking, and the AUR has been unusable for weeks, I switched back to fedora (after using Arch for about a year)

Specifically with the Cinnamon Panel (taskbar) on Linux Mint during fullscreen gaming. I like to tab out during long matchmaking and under Windows the taskbar would be visible and usable when another window gets focused over the fullscreen game. With Cinnamon, the space for the panel is there, but not the panel itself. When you press Super, the menu pops up and shows the panel with it, but the panel isn’t usable…

There is an active issue on the cinnamon github from 2012. No one even knows if this should be a bug or a feature request, so it’s just all undefined behavior right now.

Edit: it’s even worse, a newer issue was closed last year after a discussion that can only be described as very linux.

Just gaming on Linux Mint. Most big modern games work, but support for older and smaller games just isn’t there. I tried to play Doom 3. It wouldn’t start. Shadowrun Hong Kong was so slow it was unplayable.

The worst annoyances of Linux are nothing compared to basic use of Windows or MacOS.

Yeah, it’s usually quality of life misses. An example: if I mount a network drive (mine auto-mounts upon login) and then that NAS goes down for whatever reason, if I open Dolphin it’ll hang trying to connect to the offline network drive and never timeout. I can restart my NAS and then as soon as it’s online again, my file manager will open 😅.

I’d have to manually unmount in terminal if that NAS became non-functional. Windows just times out and marks it as offline so File Explorer still works.

I find Linux to be very bad at recovering from freezing. If something freezes on linux I almost always need to shut the entire PC down or go into TTY to kill the app. I expected it to be way more sturdy.

My Thinkpad X260 TrackPoint and mouse buttons under the spacebar still don’t work. I have lost my mind trying to figure it out and gave up. I don’t use the laptop that often.

My disappointments are few, and are outweighed by the fact that if I update the computer doesn’t suddenly grow new advertisements or try to force new subscriptions onto me, or even break that many things? The skill floor is slightly higher sure, but the skill ceiling is so much higher, it doesn’t feel like a thinly veiled Eldritch monster.

No, despite many problems, because it always teaches me something about computers

Disappointed at linux directly? No.

Disappointed at linux indirectly? Absolutely.

• Nvidia’s linux support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
• Ubuntu
  • Unity (at least it’s gone from main installs now)
  • Snaps
• KDE
  • Version 4 (at least it’s good now)
• Fedora
  • Forcing their own broken version of OBS that didn’t work (they finally removed it)
• Wayland
  • Not supporting screenshare (fixed with portals)
  • Not supporting global shortcuts (currently being investigated)
  • Accessibility (currently being investigated)
• Gnome
  • Not supporting system trays
    • Most people don’t want their background apps (discord, teams, docker/podman, OBS, etc…) to be filling up the foreground.
  • Not supporting server side decorations
    • Literally the stupidest decision ever made
    • Not supporting it forces all other developers to spend their time integrating their own client side decorations just so users can move/close a window in someone else’s desktop environment. (example: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408#%3A~%3Atext=Client-side+window+decorations)
    • Not supporting it means every developer has to deal with issues being reported to them that aren’t their fault.
    • Not supporting it means every developer now has less time to work on their own applications.
    • Not supporting it means that humanity has wasted a stupid amount of time reimplementing the same thing over and over again instead of just once.
    • Gnome saying that: “it’s not part of the standard”
      • Buddy, you’re the only one holding it back from being standardised.
        • Cosmic: Supported
        • Hyprland: Supported
        • KDE (Kwin): Supported
        • Unity (Mir): Supported
        • Niri: Supported
        • Sway: Supported
        • etc…: Supported
        • Gnome (Mutter, and those downstream like Muffin): Not Supported
        • It has… by all metrics… become… THE defacto standard.
      • “It’s not in the official wayland standard”
        • Buddy, wayland needs to support more than just the desktop metaphor. It also needs to support things like phones, handhelds, kiosk machines, car infotainment systems, etc… where having a window on a screen doesn’t make sense. You are a desktop environment using the desktop metaphor, you need to support the basic functionality of moving windows that pop up on the screen, and you are the only one failing, and not only failing but failing so hard you’re negatively affecting all those around you, and not only that but you’re also not being accountable to how your actions are negatively affecting others.

While I can point out a lot of times I was dissapointed in IOS, Mac and windows, only time I ever got dissapointed was in the beginning where I was aggressively distrohopping because my first distro (POPOS) was extremely slow and buggy. Gentoo felt too sluggish for daily use and other nuances that weren’t exactly Linux’s fault but I didn’t know any better.

I use void btw

I love Linux but for ease and convenience a iOS / Mac based home has been a lot easier to coordinate and orchestrate and tie together.

There is no equivalent tv box to the Apple TV on the Linux ecosystem without tinkering which makes it tough now that tinkering isn’t as fun cuz my time is so restricted.

Without a Linux phone and Integrated set top box I can’t mainline it, but it still is my go to for running all my services (saving for the odd bsd here and there)

Lots of little extremely niche things people do on their computer on Windows are harder on Linux, I think the best example in general is video game modding. We can’t say it’s essential or barring anyone from making a switch and yet people like me wrankle. I’m disappointed no one ever put the honest time into cloning Mod Organizer and its amazing USVFS. Yes I know you can do it on Fuse, I know there are a couple other mod applications for Bethsoft games. The problem is ALL of these tools need a seamless way to talk between Proton instances, which would be a security risk I guess. And Mod Organizer was such a nice tool. The clone attempts I’ve seen have had shoddy UI, lacked core features you wouldn’t even bother calling it an MO clone without (Amethyst was not storing -downloads-, just running whatever FOMOD it found immediately and deleting the archive), or were done heavily with LLM AI which I don’t trust around proton instances.

It’s the absolute lowest priority right now and if you’re willing to accept a lot of potential suck you can eek by. I don’t use EMACs or I’d probably be the kind of person using that as mod manager, but hearing it described I’d liken my agony over lacking good mod tools to trying to use EMACs on a broken cellphone screen, or a keyboard missing half its letters. I miss the tools MO set the industry standard for.

Nah I’m alright.

I’m very disappointed about Discord on Linux. I’ve been having a problem for months where the audio input stops working for several seconds at a time during voice calls.