Linux

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

Yeah. Ive managed to make it work now, but when I was starting off with installing Linux, my audio was broken and all sorts of other basic functions were broken. Headphones would work but laptop speakers wouldn't. I had to restart all over several times after already installing everything I needed, just because some stupid niche (but important) thing was broken. Never had these issues when doing fresh installs of windows. I'm still very much on the "team" of Linux though, I just hope that it becomes a large enough part of the market that drivers for hardware are faster to come out.

People complain at something not working are missing the point.

It's open source. You spot something you don't like, change it.

Learn to code, contribute, fix things.

There is very little stopping you.

Not being able to use middle click as a scroll tool. For an OS that's supposed to be about user choice, this option is stupidly baked into the depths of the kernel.

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.

Is it perfect? No. It does have bugs and issues which can be hard to track down. But it is free, respects my privacy, respects my choices, doesn't use dark patterns, doesn't contain ads, has lots of options to configure it, it's super fast.. so I love it.

I'm going to make the switch but I find the sheer number of distros overwhelming. I only know unbunto, but everyone says it's shit. Just gotta do research.

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

One thing I've been annoyed by for over a decade now is having to unmount USB drives before removing them or they'll brick. That shit worked fine on windows unless you were writing/reading iirc.

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.

All the time. I run both windows and linux desktops side by side windows is leaps and bounds better as a desktop idk what people are talking about they must only browse the web if they think this shit competes with windows at all. Im disappointed in windows too but it's not the same there isn't people claiming it is the best thing ever so there is not as high expectations. And just to clarify I have been using linux since I was little it isn't some foreign thing to me. Look at all these comments "great BUT" yea the buts are why it isn't great.

Constantly, I'm pretty sure that part of the experience.

However, anytime I have to use windows or mac I very quickly get over whatever my issue with linux is.

Not on the kernel itself, just a minor bug that got fixed in the next release but could still choose the older kernel until then. OOM sounds like a bad idea when running out of memory - let the user chose what program to stop and handle it gracefully. Picking random process is bad. Others? DRM video at 1080p does not work on raspberry pi and it is not Linux fault really. Transition between X11 and Wayland took a long time to happen. Needed it earlier. Like before Ubuntu MIR. What impressed me is Linux and live cd. It is golden. Be able to surf the web while installing or just troubleshooting. Tiling Windows Manager and you can do whatever you want and customization.

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.

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

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.

I've been using Linux for long enough to have been disappointed multiple times. And 90% of the time it's about regression. In no particular order:

• Liferea losing the ability to start hidden.
• KDE 4.0, a trainwreck that made me leave KDE altogether back then.
• Network Manager bug forcing my local IP to change, even if I need it static and predictable.
• Ubuntu ads. I think it was the straw that broke the camel's back and forced me into Debian.

etc.

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.

Once I was looking forward to the challenge of connecting a linux PC to a Windows domain, only to find out the current version of the distro had that functionality by default. 😐

So that was cool, I guess...

my disappointment in Linux has lessened over the last few years as issues are being resolved.

Currently my only real disappointment is driver support, but that's less of a flaw on anything linux, and more of a flaw on the providers.

That being said, I also am disappointed with sound management. Trying to do anything in that hellscape on most distros leaves you with a pounding headache. It's a monkey-patch of multiple handlers that gets confusing really fast.

Inconsistent behavior with the Elan touchpad on the ThinkPad E16 Gen 1 (AMD). Works in a live image but not when I install. Adding kernel parameters and loading specific modules gets it working, but it stops again after a few minutes. Sometimes unloading/reloading the module gets it working again, sometimes it doesn’t. 4 different distros, 4 different kernel versions, still have to use Trackpoint.

Other than that, I daily-drive Debian on my home and office workstations. Those ones just work.