Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.
No, I’ve never been disappointed.
xdg-desktop-portal is the only thing that really gave me anger
The plasma drawing tablet calibration tool does the opposite of what its supposed to and it only has one job.
I hate to say it, but Linux in general is not great for art stuff in my experience. There’s some good stuff like Krita and Blender, but I’ve found that Linux is generally very twitchy about graphics tablets, and some stuff like Toon Boom/Moho for animation just has no real equivalent in Linux (and I haven’t had any luck getting those to work in Wine so far either.)
fortunately I’ve had no trouble with Krita for drawing or animation, and the calibration thing is just a minor nitpick. The tablet otherwise works perfectly I would just prefer if the cursor was very slightly to the left of the pen nib instead of directly underneath it so i could see what I’m doing better.
It’s not just art, it’s just about anything to do with professional productivity. Linux isn’t better for development in general; it’s better for development for Linux. -This is why you see so much propaganda about it being preferred by devs; because it’s not a simple ‘not it’s not!’. The other propagandas like Libre Office, GIMP, etc., are often debunked by professionals as not being adequate in Linux’s own communities.
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Not so much in Linux as in tools I want on Linux being Windows only (or X11).
- Microsoft’s Terminal App is my favourite console application, there are a ton of other applications to use but nothing hits just right in the way their application does.
- GOG Galaxy. There is Heroic which is an excellent application the integrates really well with GOG but (the last time I used it) cloud sync was Windows only, so you had to run proton/wine to get cloud sync support even though the game had native Linux support. In the end, I just wish GOG could if not port their client to Linux, at least help Heroic Launcher make cloud sync work with Linux.
- xdotool - I used it to automate hiding/showing my terminal window. I tried ydotool but could not get it to work.
Ydotools is one of the biggest failure and letdowns I’ve ever seen. It makes me sad every time.
Mostly before proton and wine got really good tbh. I also have a ton of the old free Ubuntu CDs and we can see where that went 😔
I’m also pretty disappointed with the security standards on Linux, flatpak next pls save us
All the time but then I remember it’s my fault because it’s open source and I am not fixing it either.
with windows i can just blame m$, but on linux it’s my fault
I am perpetually disappointed by both Windows and the various flavors of Linux.
The difference is: there’s relatively little you can do to “fix” Windows when you really need to. When Linux is broken, it may be a lot of work, but the option to fix it as you believe it should work is always there…
In the old days, lots, mostly around hardware support and until very recently the ability to run most games.
Nowadays, I’m mostly disappointed with the desktop environments lacking features that BeOS had in 1997. This is honestly a kernel and filesystem issue since most of those features require that the kernel/filesystem fully support indexed, extensible attribute queries. xattrs aren’t nearly sufficient. The remainder are framework/UI threading model limitations, which aren’t really kernel related.
After a recent update, I started getting prompts for using a having controller. I know there’s a way to fix, it probably has to do with UDEF rules or something, but I just can’t quite care enough to figure it out.
On the other hand, I know there’s a fix. There’s always a fix.
And nothing is ever added just to fuck with me. So, yes, but more on the level of “eh 🤷♂️”
I am disappointed we still don’t have a solid FOSS smartphone OS that can compete with the 2 monopolies who have cornered the market.
I don"t want ro sell my soul to Google or Apple just to use my bank (even on my computer thanks to mandatory 2fa apps) or to renew my government issued ID or to buy a train ticket on European public transport.
Jolla was a massive disappointment. As was the M$ buyout of Nokia.
What’s wrong with Jolla?
Failure to deliver their tablet in 2016, in a big way. They’re trying to do a phone now, it’s going better - but that’s not saying that it’s going well…
Ah, I see. That makes sense. I don’t actually know that much about them, other than that the Commodore phone uses Sailfish.
That disappointment isn’t with Linux
depends on where you draw the line.
in the past, i’ve been mildly dissapointed by the drama-queen-esque antics of the kernel developers; but i most recently DEEPLY disappointed by how thoroughly the kernel developers to caved to the us gov’t’s demand to kick out russian developers instead of complying maliciously like others do.
both are separate from linux, but linux can’t exist without them.
postmarketOS, LineageOS, GrapheneOS?
I know they have limited hardware support but that’s only a matter of involvement at the end of the day
I wanted GrapheneOS but all Pixel phones have this huge ass camera house on the back.
Pixel 10a is flat.
Unfortunately only postmarket is actual Linux os from these and it’s far from daily driveable, lineage and graphene are android roms and are therefore dependent on Google’s decisions with AOSP.
Out of curiosity, what about PostmarketOS is not daily driveable? Postmarket is a vague umbrella OS with a lot of DE options, all of which have vastly different user experiences. KDE mobile, phosh, and GNOME mobile have all come a long way and provide everything a smartphone OS needs. The only thing I’d argue that could prevent daily driving is lack of app support and lack of good mobile Linux hardware, but that’s not PostmarketOS’s problem.
Mainly in terms of firmware for actual phones, taking photos is basically impossible as the photos either look horrible or don’t work at all. Frequent sound issues, lower battery life, unreliable mobile network connection and lack of inbuilt esim support. OSes based on halium have better experience though they do still lack the app support.
have you tried it on a real device? maybe this is a hardware support issue, but no matter which DE i use (be it phosh, plasma mobile, gnome, …) it was extremely buggy and mostly unusable. battery drained like crazy, calls didn’t work properly, the list goes on. to be fair this was on a poco f1 and lg k10, which aren’t in main or community though…
my daily driver is a 2013 phone with custom rom and i’ve daily’ed a self ported ubports phone in the past, my level of tolerance for buggy experience in daily driver phones is very likely much lower than others
Yeah, device support is the biggest issue. But the OS as a whole is pretty good. I used it with a OnePlus 6T and a Nothing Phone 1, both of which have pretty decent support. Some things about it were broken, and I didn’t try putting in a SIM card and making calls or texts, but the overall experience was good. I have high hopes for when we eventually get good “flagship” linux mobile phones that have full PostmarketOS compatibility.
Technically AOSP also runs a Linux kernel. Lineage and Graphene are like this only for compatibility reasons, no one stops them if they decide to fork. And AOSP itself is still not that bad though
It happens. But when I boot into Windows those disappointments ease up.
During the HTML 4 days.
During the early days of Pulse Audio. Sound sometimes would stop working for inexplicable reasons.
Before Pulse Audio sound on Linux was literally lame.
ALSA works better than Pulse Audio. Fite me irl
Sometimes I have to set audio to ALSA with protontricks in order for a game to launch or have sound. I think it has something to do with the number of audio channels I have. With other audio interfaces with only two channels it doesn’t seem to be an issue but I thought my ALSA/JACK combo was solid but I also only played native games back then so I’m not sure if it would have been an issue then. Pulse took me a while too be comfortable with but for the most part I’m happy with it now. I held out for so long and waited for other audio producers to give it a green light before I switched.
BTW, I’m not trying to fight you on this. Just sharing my experience with someone who understands the struggle.
Sound was literally dysfunctional in Linux on a lot of hardware in the 90s. In the mid 2000s I had a RedHat enthusiast tell me that was all in the past, about 20 minutes before we hit a nasty hard to fix sound configuration/performance problem with RedHat on our hardware… Our “sound guy” can make ALSA work on our product, but it’s one of the more brittle parts of the system - anything changes he “has to get back with you…”
Yes, I installed Fedora and everything was working OOTB. Nothing to tinker with, no issue with sound, WiFi, Bluetooth or external screens. Then I moved this SSD to a new AMD laptop and it worked perfectly. It even switched from Intel to AMD utils by itself.
So disappointing.
I’m annoyed at modern Gnome’s hostility towards user customisability. Their refusal to support server side decorations has trickled down to Cinnamon’s Wayland compositor and it looks like it’s going to be a barrier in Wayland Cinnamon.
The Gnome team are just discount wanna be apple.
In 2014, I felt like Canonical / Ubuntu actually added value beyond the Debian it was based on.
As the years rolled on, Debian’s “shortcomings” became fewer and less important, meanwhile Canonical’s handling of Ubuntu has slowly accumulated what I consider “negative value.” Since 2024, my new installs have been Debian based, no more Canonical/Ubuntu. Fresh Ubuntu installs are still a bit more polished than Debian, but not in any way that compensates for the negative aspects of virtually forced use of snap packaging, Gnome (Xubuntu is a viable option, but so is XFCE on Debian), holding LTS updates hostage behind paywalls, etc.
I like gnome’s approach to a unified and opinionated human interface design. I think it makes a nice cohesive user experience. If other projects don’t want that then they probably shouldn’t be building off of gnome.
Modern? Gnome developers were always like that.
