Audio is the only thing holding me back. I have a pair of lucidsound LS51 headphones for gaming that I can’t get working wirelessly. While the have Bluetooth, it’s shit for latency and not workable for gaming.

That’s it. Everything else works but until I buy replacement headset or find a way to convince Linux to pick em up and work it’s still windows for me

Any good wireless headsets that folks know of that work Linux side?

As a daily driver for “normies”, Linux is fine. Browser, email client, office apps, all good. I can use Prusa Slicer and Blender, which covers all my 3D printing needs.

There is no real image editor anywhere close to Photoshop, and no, GiMP isn’t it. I have to use Affinity via wine. It works but I’d prefer a native solution. I need ML object recognition, layers with layer effects (stroke outline, drop shadow), easy text Input and manipulation (font size, height, width etc). Affinity can do it. Photoshop does it better, but I am no longer willing to pay Adobe. Screw subscription software.

For my RAW images, I am using Rawtherapee which I am much more comfortable with than with Darktable.

Audio is a mess. To have low latency in my DAW (Reaper Linux Version), I have to launch it via the command line using pw-jack reaper, otherwise it won’t recognize the audio device or uses ALSA or Pulseaudio both of which have way more latency than JACK. I have bought a couple of VST plugins on Windows, some work via yabridge and again wine, some work in part but have no UI. others don’t work at all and I am out of ideas.

For video editing, I use Davinci Resolve Studio (which I paid for), but the experience on Linux lacks behind Windows and it doesn’t support the same codecs (no AAC audio, making a lot of my archive footage useless unless I transcode everything).

My Framework 13 (AMD 7040) laptop has a fingerprint scanner. No dice getting it to work (I’m running CachyOS). Davinci Resolve refuses to work on the AMD integrated GPU (experience above is from desktop PC with Nvidia GPU).

And the session saving feature in KDE Plasma on CachyOS is inconsistent. I set it to only save a session when actively telling to do so, I don’t do it and it still opens up 5 apps I didn’t even have open last time.

Steam doesn’t want to autostart minimized, it goes front and center on boot. Annoying.

Those are my current gripes as a Linux user. Otherwise, all peachy.

Edit: well not exactly. My desktop PC has a Gigabyte motherboard and in order to recognize the fans attached to it I had to grab an I87 community made driver. Temp sensors etc are also reporting less to Linux than to Windows (if you compare what you can read out in HWinfo to GNOME Vitals or the like, it’s laughably little).

I have used Parsec for remote desktop. They have a Linux client but it doesn’t support hosting. Which sucks. Will look for another remote desktop solution.

I have a DJI drone. Haven’t yet tried running DJI Assistant to do firmware updates etc. Might go well might be horrible. Anyone with experience here?

I use Backblaze on my Windows install for off site backup purposes. They don’t have a Linux client for the consumer tier and I don’t want to pay enterprise grade money as a consumer. Maybe via wine? Need to find out.

Overall the main problem with Linux is that almost nothing outside of a very small set of use cases works without hours, day, weeks of tinkering. Which would be fine for one or two things, but it’s just spoo much.

not really a linux issue more of an application issue but I use Remmina for work and it crashes a couple times a day and that’s annoying. For a while Ubuntu didn’t have the GNOME changes that keeps the remote RDP session running when the client disconnects and I’d have to re-open all my remote applications a few times a day. I was expecting to have to wait till 26.04 to get that but a few weeks ago that update reached my work laptop and now I mostly have parity to how my old Windows work laptop worked.

Unattended remote access under Wayland. I have multiple computers some headless and some with displays and I often like to remote into those from my other machines on my lan. With Xorg I used VNC. But with Wayland I have yet to find a reliable way to remote control a Wayland session without also sitting in front of the machine I’m trying to remote into.

Everywhere.

My current no. 1 pain point is Remote Desktop on KDE Plasma Wayland.
The only functional one is Sunshine and Moonlight, and while they’re great, they’re gaming focused. Trying to do productivity work from my phone is just not feasible, not to say the bandwidth usage if I’m on mobile data.

Their RDP server is supposedly working already but I never managed to get anything more than a black screen on the clients.

I have an issue with my laptop on my school’s network, which is likely an issue with the way the network is configured, because I’ve never had the issue on other computers or networks elsewhere, but sometimes my laptop(Linux Mint ThinkPad T490) will stay connected to the network, but say ‘authentication required’ and have no internet access until I reconnect. It also sometimes pops up a password box and asks me to reauthenticate to the network which I do, still using the same saved password. This gets annoying while writing tests that use browser window monitoring software. Like I said, it’s probably an issue with the network but none of the windows or Mac users seem to have this issue so maybe someone has come across something similar or knows how to fix it.

Briefly:

My ThinkPad and it’s snapdragon 5G modem. *ubuntu is the only distro where it works, and it only works because I am using the fcc unlock scripts that are no longer functioning automatically/by default. The docs for this are abysmal and atrocious.

On my desktop, my creative sound blaster cards (two of them, AE-5 and Z) when set to surround/5.1 - FL and FR are correct, no other channel is. After days of research and tinkering, I achieved no progress and it has been a known issue for like 8+ years, according to forum posts. Stereo/2.0 is fine.

My desktop is thus stuck on W10 (there are additional hurdles but that is a blocker), while the TP is for niche use cases. I do more server stuff than desktop/workstation.

For me it’s the fact that there’s no “perfect setup” for anything. This likely only applies to my specific machine (kids, don’t buy an asus rog strix, trust me) but I can never get the “ok this setup is perfect, everything works exactly how I like it, I can’t complain”

What I mean by this is for example KDE Plasma 6. All my apps and everything work on it. games work flawlessly, all my dev tools, great. so I should be happy right? no. workspaces suck on multi-monitor setups, no native auto tiling and the third party script that does it is kinda wonky. Ok fair enough lets use something else like say Niri or Sway or Hyprland whatever. cool I got my tiling, I have my vim nav, awesome right? no certain games don’t work with these WMs as they all have issues with mouse constraints on certain xwayland stuff that KDE has managed to solve.

OK fair enough lets try an x11 WM. nope can’t do it on my laptop as I have both an integrated AMD gpu and and discrete Nivida gpu therefore x11 can’t handle it as far as gaming goes.

There’s a few other things like that. Like I want to use something that isn’t packaged for whatever distro so you go with the app image of it but it’s pretty much useless since it won’t integrate with your system. i.e. the appimage of Tabby. Or waiting on a package to get approved but the maintainer drops out at the last minute so either you have to pick it up or wait on someone else to which essentially resets the process (yay nix pkgs).

Essentially with linux in most cases the focus always seems to be on fixing the complicated things while ignoring the easy user experience things. Like workspaces shouldn’t suck as much as they do on Plasma and the “fix” coming next month isn’t going to improve things that much. oh boy I can pin a single app on my second monitor…that doesn’t fix the dreadful workspace experience on Plasma. ALL they have to do is allow independant sets of workspaces per monitor. that’s it. that’s all I want. but the devs at KDE, just like their opinions on tiling, will say “well we don’t use workspaces like that so you won’t either”.

Nvidia. I ordered a refurbished ThinkPad P1, and it showed up with a Nvidia card. There are problems waking up from sleep and sessions crashing that I don’t have with the iGPU devices which have FOSS drivers.

Electron apps. They eat RAM, but it’s the only way some apps are delivered.

MacOS can setup independent virtual desktops on each monitor, but Gnome has independent virtual desktops on only the main monitor with the others static. It can be set for all the monitors to change at the same time, but that’s not what I’m after.

LUKS is Linux only. There isn’t a cross platform way to do FDE on removable media.

Efi partitions use FAT FS. Why is this in the spec?

Only some manufacturers support LVFS. There isn’t a standardized mechanism for firmware updates, and many manufacturers don’t bother.

Gnome doesn’t have a profile export feature.

BTRFS is still a work in progress after all these years. Subvolume space quotas still aren’t recommended for use and encryption is “coming soon”. The tooling is a mess, no per subvolume mount options, no converting an existing folder to a subvolume. It mostly works, but ZFS is still nicer.

LibreOffice doesn’t have an “easy” mode similar to Google Docs and it doesn’t have a vim mode. Sometimes I just want to write, and not fiddle with every little detail.

I’ve used a few different distros over the years: Debian, Ubuntu, Neon, openSUSE Leap

Never once has a major version upgrade ever gone 100% successfully. Even on a bog standard system with no 3rd party repos or niche hardware. I don’t know why it’s still so difficult

An update to CachyOS broke VirtualBox which is setting me back in some projects. All the help threads I’ve found don’t fix the issue, so I’m stuck waiting for another update to maybe fix it. Apparently the kernel driver isn’t installed anymore. The command VirtualBox suggests doesn’t exist, and the package all the advice online suggested did nothing. Guess I’m SOL for the time being.

VMs were my solution to some programs that simply don’t work on Linux, but if I can’t have it working reliably I have to keep a spare Windows SSD.

Running Windows in VMWare Workstation: I do development work that really has to be done in Windows, so that’s where I spend my day. Even on my Windows machine, I keep the dev environment in a Virtual machine so that I can go anywhere with it, or use if from any machine with VMWare loaded.

I find myself having to stay booted into my Windows Drive to run VMWare without a bunch of lag / weird issues. So at that point I just kept working from that drive and don’t really boot back to the Linux drive.

I also seem to have a heck of a time seeing files on my NTFS drives from Linux.

Some of this is probably the older Nvidia card that I have, and the fact that I run 3 monitors, and running VMWare on 3 monitors acts weird in Linux.

Theres only 2 times I have headaches due to being on linux.

1. When I’m streaming, the streaming service I use (typically Amazon) refuses to stream at anything higher than like 320p, despite me enabling the DRM and all that stuff, cause they think if you’re on linux you’re the l33t h4x0rz out to steal their garbage files… Which isnt linuxes fault in the least.

2. When I’m playin a game thats not easily moddable (like Cyberpunk) (Compared to easily moddable games, like Bethesda titles, or Stardew, Or Minecraft)that requires running tons of extra executables and stuff. its just a pain in the ass to get shit working, to the point I often give up half way through.

other than that, Linux really hasnt been a barrier to my daily life in any way. Granted, I kind of cultivated myself a proper linux enviroment before I even made the switch, by using AMD gear, and buying linux friendly web cams/printers/blue tooth dongles/etc etc.

Utilizing TPM for full disk encryption.