Linux

To this day, I still grumble about the lack of universal middle-click autoscroll support in applications that aren't browsers or Electron/Chromium-based.

"But middle-click pasting is better!"

Well I'm not a fan of it, and I'd like to be able to use my middle mouse button to autoscroll everywhere instead. After all, isn't customization one of the main reasons to use Linux in the first place?

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 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.

No not really. Just people.

Nah I'm alright.

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.

When Pulseaudio and Wayland were still kind of rough I migrated to Macs for like 5 years.

The failure to properly protect against file access between programs is kind of disappointing. Flatpak has made great progress here, but it isn't quite universal.

When I first started using it I had the issue that every install would throw up a new thing not working. I suspect that was the hardware rather than Linux though.

I'm disappointed by the number of packages that aren't signed by developers.

Or that go with less secure package managers like flatpak instead of just working with Debian devs to add it to the official repos, because apt is actually secure.

Overall Linux has shifted over the past 10 years to be more of a dangerous place to download software. So more like Windows and Apple.

Most of my disappointments with Linux come from the proprietary bits to be honest. Both the hardware drivers, and the games and other apps. And even the few times I'm let down by open-source apps, it's because of abilities from their proprietary counterpart that they are yet to implement.

Never. Very disappointed in the general software companies not wanting to make their software work on Linux though. That will be mandatory once I become king.

And a blanket ban on using noreply@ addresses.

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)

having used windows long enough to know what the .11 brought you and having gone windows-free for well over a decade i can say i have never, ever thought "i wish i was on windows cuz this would be better/easier/faster/possible"

With Linux itself or with the broader realm of 'Linux software'?

By itself, Linux is a fantastic family of operating systems. Has never failed me and probably never will. At least not until I care enough about differences in userland handling in Linux vs FreeBSD, for instance. And even then, I might just switch out of preference, and not because one or the other disappointed me.

As for broader Linux software, or GNU software, or just FOSS in general - by far the biggest potential issue is probably systemd, and it's still meaningless for the vast majority of users. Other than that, my personal biggest issue was Hyprland breaking completely after updating. But it's not a super major issue, because I can just use Plasma instead.