Linux

I am deeply disappointed in the Android flavor of Linux. 17 years of development, and your phone still does not have a terminal app built into the OS.

I mean i'm currently in a learning process with Linux, i would like to be a power user like in windows, but i'm just not yet. I don't know if i would say disappointed, but i tried to use KDE first and would say my experience was rather bad, it was a bit buggy here and there and i didn't found out how to fix my problems. I'm surprised by it because i though i would like KDE for sure more, but i'm happy i switched to Gnome. So as the op said, part of the experience is choosing the right distro or in my case desktop enviroment is part of the experience.

Sure had few driver issues, or installing japanese was a bit of a struggle, but i have fun solving problems.

i would like to see more cutting edge attempts. this is more of a linux ecosystem thing but try new things even if they dont work out. until very recently, parental controls have been non existing or barely functioning.

for the linux ecosystem to be mainstream it needs to cover more people.

I have been extremely disappointed with the broader Linux ""community"" at times, but never Linux.

Yes.

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

I’ve had some sound issues here and there, but those are largely resolved. My only issue at the moment (which I suspect is mostly a skill issue) is figuring out an easy way to install games to the drive I want. With Epic for example on Windows it was easy to pick which drive I wanted to install the game on, but since Epic runs in WINE on Linux I haven’t figured out an easy way to do that. It works fine on Steam since the Steam client is Linux native.

The one recurring unsolveable problem I run into is not being able to kill a process that's stuck in D state. If something has broken in the layers between that process and hardware (not uncommon when working with old cheap "box of scraps" hardware, as I like to do), it can get stuck forever and you have to kill the whole system, sometimes forcibly. Not the end of the world, but it sucks when it happens.

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)

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

Power management on a laptop.

Use a 10 year old Logitech mouse out of the box.

Mint's stupid annoying print monitor.

Dealing with cached samba creds though the box to save creds wasn't checked.

The lack of real competitors to office. And no, Open Office doesn't come close to replacing MS office.

There's lots that's annoying.

But Linux is excellent as my servers, as my VM host, as my dedicated systems. Still has it's issues, but works great for always-on systems with very specific tasks.

Linux and Windows serve different purposes.

Hardware acceleration sometimes makes videos play at low frame rates.

But overall much better than every other OS I've tried

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.

I've definitely had consistently less issues with dev stuff on linux, but Bluetooth is consistently lacking.

And I don't know if I'd be able to get wifi drivers working on this laptop again if I had to reinstall

I ran Arch on my rig in 2023 and didn't use it for a few months. The next update broke a ton of shit including KDE.

Next time I might go with Bazzite. Or Manjaro and just take better care of it.

Been in a bunch of situations where the best available software is 0.x and hella buggy. (Which I discovered after building the software and its dozen dependencies from source because of course no one had packaged it.) But I'm not mad, I'm just "oh well, the situation will improve in the future, I hope".

Never. Sometimes it's a pain, but I can live with that.

Just a little bit with the direction of GTK and Gnome. Yes, I'm still salty about that. I miss GTK2 and Gnome 2 where everything could be customized and there were thousands of different themes. Of course, I switched to MATE and I'm still using it, but all my favourite GTK2 themes eventually stopped working and now my desktop looks very generic, like all the others.

Again, I know I'm free to be nostalgic as I want and install any project that wants to try to revive or keep GTK2 alive. There's apparently a few. But I'm just a bit disappointed that it went this way. I switched to Linux more than 25 years ago because I could customize it to look like I wanted, and the more time passes, the more those features are getting hidden or removed and now everything looks the same.

back in the bad old days yes all the time

not any more

Sure, I wanted nanokernels for massively parallel small-memory hardware since 1990s.