We love to praise linux constantly and tell everyone to change to it (they should) but what are your biggest annoyances ?
Mine would be, installing software (made even more complex by flatpaks being added, among the 5 other ways there already were to install software) and probably wifi power management issues.
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You want to do some cool thing and you find instructions online.
But that shit only works when t every single aspect of the s is the exact same version.
Which will never be the case, so now you’re at co desperately trying to improvise the steps that, if you inherently knew how to do, you wouldn’t have needed instructions for in the first place.
Mostly video related.
YouTube videos are hella pixelated and sometimes the audio de syncs.
Also the active blocking some companies do with DRM. Things like competitive online games and some streaming services like Peacock.
Just the absolute resistance a lot of developers have.
Honestly, the fact I don’t have as much time as I’d like to contribute workarounds.
Take yesterday, I got Magic and Mayhem (the classic) running via wine, but I had to create a new wine prefix to remove dpi scaling (because, Apparently, the winecfg graphic tab is global, and if dpi scaling is used it truncates the game’s display). Still can’t get the music working, but that’s what MOC is for, and I did use an old cracked version.
I want to make a lutris install script for this, but I lack the time. That’s my main dislike of Linux - I wish there was a solid indexed forum to share game workarounds that had a drop-down search by game.
I feel the same ! I wish I could dedicate time to help programmers out…its actually what made me even more interested in learning how. I want to contribute !
The closest thing we have to this is probably protondb but I’ve never seen any super in-depth tweaks from users there. I’m also not 100% sure if they have non steam games posted there. If they do I imagine there’s not exactly a ton of posted guides by users
I play a lot of abandonware titles, and there is a spot (90s and early 00s) that are a pain to run. I can normally figure it out on a spare day, but I know a lot of folks just give up.
Hey I play a lot from that era as well! I tend to try to find the ps1 versions so I can just use duckstation…or install win98 in a virtual machine. Runs games pretty well then with no compatibility problems.
Nothing to hate… some forums have turned pretty caustic but other than that, the software and the community are awesome
Re Flatpaks, I did not like them so I do not use them… not need to hate a thing I have barely any interaction with, choosing not to use them has not limited me at all
Never had wifi power management issues either (15 years on Linux)
I dont like how some devs make the non flatpak version basically invisible…
Snap. The very existence of it.
Fedora Flatpaks needs to diaf. That is all.
Booting problems. Every once in a while, I get GRUB for no reason. Can’t find a boot disk that existed yesterday. WTF? Effing hate that sh!t.
Finally heard about immutability features like VanillaOS and might move to that…
My system boots to an initrd prompt, and then I reset it and it shows the boot menu and then starts correctly after the timer counts down. I’m not sure how to fix it, and I don’t reboot often enough to make it worth my time to figure out.
Politics. Let me grab some 🍿 for all the arguments about how “Linux is inherently political” and all that nonsense that I don’t care about. I just want to use the damn thing, that’s all.
The community lmao
Seriously though. You are sadly totally right there. “Works on my machine, so it must be user error.”
“First time doing this? It’s an easy fix bro: [unironnically links Arch Wiki, not even a specific page]”.
Or just: “Skill issue.”
Total lack of stability, not in “crashing programs” but in the entire idea of “throw it all out and start over” that seems to 100% infest every single Linux developer every few years.
Not to mention the total loss of every single bit of UNIX philosophy over the years.
“Everything’s a file.” ? Not according to Linux, not any more.
All the various *ctls necessary to run and inspect your system have completely gotten out of control.
Totally agree. For some reason we have an aversion to learning from those that came before us. We have to learn the hard way and keep reinventing the wheel, often in worse ways. This post made me laugh because it is so accurate: https://feddit.online/post/929088
I first started with Linux in 1994, with Slackware.
However, I’ve preferred FreeBSD for years, now. The only reason I use linux at all is Steam. There’s been work getting it working in FreeBSD, but not enough, and it basically only works on machines with an Nvidia GPU. And I’ve also been Team Red for literally decades.
Ah well.
Oh man, I loved the simplicity of FreeBSD. I was actually running it for a bit on my homelab. It was so nice and straightforward, wich suuuuuuch good documentation.
Yep. All the Linux fanboys always say “Arch wiki this” and “Arch wiki that” while the FreeBSD handbook has been the king of documentation for over 2 decades.
For some reason some Steam games invert my mouse wheel direction but don’t when ran in windows and I can’t figure out a per-application toggle for it.
Why things decided to try and undo 30 years of muscle memory I don’t know.
Thats bizarre, does it happen on every mouse you plug in?
You know what, I’ve not tried. But as it’s not all titles I concluded it was software rather than hardware. It’s a sensible shout sh and I’ll try one day when I find a minute to start messing about.
I miss executable files being as easy as on windows
Appimages are the equivalent and seamless in my experience
I don’t hate anything whatsoever! It kicks ass in everything. I’m sure there are some things I’d like to see improved, I can’t think of at the moment but I know I’ve had minor frustrations. But nothing is perfect and Linux has been absolutely fantastic for me on all the systems I use it for.
Its users
The elitism
