cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
I have not really had anything. I do have a thing where my mouse goes wonky but I think its the my touchpad and not linux.
Can’t mount flashdrives since the last Ubuntu update…
My bazzite PC in my living room stopped recognizing the Bluetooth built into my motherboard which is annoying but easily worked around with a USB Bluetooth dongle.
Turn off the power supply, wait a minute, turn back on
Its not a Linux Problem, happens with MBS in general
Support for higher levels of ARM SystemReady seem like they’re poorly supported in the Linux ecosystem right now.
ARM boards nearly always require a devicetree entry for that specific board.
This may not be entirely a Linux problem, but my understanding is that some of the x1 elite laptops we’ve seen DeviceTree entries added in the Linux kernel are using SystemReady ES or SystemReady SR on Windows
Been using it for a couple years, my main ones currently are:
- VR. SteamVR is a broken mess, Monado is pretty much functional, but I haven’t switched yet. Mesa or the kernel sometimes forget about VR and break it in an update.
- QT5 to QT6 transition for my favorite Matrix client, Nheko. Scrolling is a pain, and the clipboard randomly stops working.
- Wayland freedom and featureset is nowhere close to X11. I can’t choose a window manager without locking myself in to a specific featureset on my display server. Stuff like global hotkeys isn’t supported in most applications. I’m still on the godawful GNOME desktop portals, which is most annoying for file picking. I have no HDR support because my window manager isn’t from KDE or GNOME.
- GTK4 apps looking like shit (there are patches luckily), I try to avoid them just because of
libadwaitaand GNOME’s awful design.
On the note of Wayland, I have switched, and for good reason. Besides unimplemented features, things “just work” a lot better than X11. Still wish I could have effectively bspwm window management with kwin featureset though. (Plugins for tiling are not the same experience)
My experience has been very slightly better (Quest 3 + Wifi 7 AP) on CachyOS compared to Win11. I was using Virtual desktop streamer (paid $25 for it) and now on Cachy using ALVR (free).
Framerates are more stable, very slightly lower averages in a few games, but the 0.1% lows that make me nauseous are now gone on Linux!
Regarding HDR yeah, I wish it had more widespread support and not get stuck on 1 window manager. But on KDE at least the SDR->HDR color mapping looks better than the Win11 auto HDR.
Needs more work for sure, some X.org applications really look terrible out of the box lol, but overall it feels good to be on an OS that gets improvements with time instead of downgrades.
I actually haven’t had much problems with VR. Gussings thing will improve with the steam box
It depends heavily on headset. From what I hear, standalones with WiVRN or Steam Link work fine ootb, not much different than desktop gaming with Proton. I have a Valve Index, a PCVR headset. Getting it to run (properly) is a pain. Monado is making it easier, but it’s not 1 to 1 the same experience as on Windows.
I can’t get past the train in alyx after getting the gun, I crash on the loading screen. I tried both bazzite and cachOS with the same result. Getting it to even run is always a hassle too and feels like it comes down to luck if it runs or not. Multiple components seem to fail at random either it doesn’t launch or the headset stays black, or I can’t get the game to run and stay in the cloudy sky or the room scale messes up and I’m half stuck in the floor. The whole experience is awful even though I really want to enjoy VR. I got myself a really beefy pc with a 9800x3d and a 7900xtx so I hoped not having to struggle with nvidia drivers would make things easier but I’m at a loss what to even try anymore or if its worth it.
This website has some good resources for Linux VR and links some support channels: https://lvra.gitlab.io/
Can’t stream peacock to watch my motorsports. Resolved by unsubbing but I still wanna watch sometimes.
Peacock doesn’t work in the browser?
Probably not if you use Firefox.
For some reason my webcam is squished to a 16:9 format on Teams through Vivaldi for work. Other than that, both work and private use and gaming has been fairly flawless. Oh, except for Star Citizen that was a hassle to set up, but once the community guides were found, it was easily figured out.
Bazzite. Internal Bluetooth sucks so I have an external USB Bluetooth. Certain devices refuse to respect that I don’t want to use internal Bluetooth and bazzite frequently turns it back on. I shouldn’t have to go into config files to fix this. I get it, it’s Linux, sometimes you need to but for mass adoption things like this should be a toggle in gui. Hell, maybe it’s in the gui somewhere. I fiddled with it long enough to give up for now
I have similar issues with even edited bluetooth config files occasionally being overwritten with a system update. Suddenly the way I had it set on purpose by editing the config file has been reverted back to the way I don’t want it.
You may be able to disable the internal Bluetooth entirely via BIOS.
Yeah my bios is dumb and that isn’t an option unfortunately
Linux is better for audio production than it’s ever been. That said, the plug-in support is still severely lacking. Even the VST bridges are hit or miss because a lot of plugins install via .exe installers which may or may not run well via wine. Getting a raw .vst file is actually pretty rare. And that’s for free plugins that don’t require DRM. Most professional quality plugins are more complex.
I have been using pirated versions of plugins I own (iLok is a blight), but I understand how that wouldn’t be feasible in a lot of cases.
Have you tried LSP? I’m super impressed by it and it can be a drop in replacement for many pro-grade technical plugins. That and reapak have pretty much replaced everything for me.
Screen blanking, or rather screen blanking not functioning properly.
I have literally spent 9 months researching every possible angle and even going as far as buying some of those Edid Emulator passthroughs for each monitor to see if those helped. Tried disabling the Kscreen manager in KDE. Tried manually controlling it via CLI and DPMS. Tried different mice and keyboards to see if it was my inputs waking it up. Tried making sure all the monitors had their auto-select input option disabled. Nope, my monitors blank for a second or two and then unblank immediately. The issue is present in both X11 and Wayland.
I have had to jump through hoops to enable a screen saver in wayland. I have to turn my monitors off manually every night. It’s really frustrating. It seems like a really simple thing, but it’s like, literally all I want is consistent screen blanking and I have spent the better part of 9 months on and off trying to find a fucking solution to no avail. I still have no explanation for why they wake instantly, they don’t seem to be triggered by anything on the system, based on the logs.
I even made a post asking for help regarding it here on Lemmy about six months ago. No luck.
It drives me up the wall because I’m actually really good at researching and finding solutions for problems I’ve run into online. This one mystifies and eludes me and while seeming minor I feel like is a genuine pain in my ass.
Related: Have an old laptop running a server OS with no GUI and have no ability to disable the monitor since technically there isn’t any monitor rendering set up, so all commands to screen blank the monitor fail because there’s technically no monitor to turn off according to the system.
Had a problem like this a year ago, figured out it was because I was using display port. Some weird quirk of its protocol basically fubars it.
Switching to hdmi cables fixes the problem.
But HDMI cables have bigger issues so I just learned to deal with the problem.
I’m sorry if you’ve already checked this, but I had a similar problem with a Windows laptop recently that just would NOT stay in standby. It wasn’t a question of if, but how long.
Eventually I found that some "Wake on IP’ settings were set to “Wake on any/all IP traffic”. I switched those off and now the thing stays in standby/screen blanked.
Good suggestion, but I just checked and my Wake-on-LAN settings are already disabled.
My D drive doesn’t auto mount on boot. Fixing isn’t worth the effort if clicking two buttons.
For anyone else, fstab is probably your friend.
And if editing fstab yourself is too daunting, there is also gnome-disk-utility which has a nice GUI for setting auto-mounts that edits fstab for you.
Had to think about it… The answer is nowhere. I built my digital life around Linux for 23 years.
Need proper replacements for:
- AirPlay/Sonos (SendSpin has made a huge splash in recent months)
- Easy wireless display sharing to TVs à la AirPlay mirroring and Windows Cast
PipeWire supports AirPlay…?
At least with PipeWire 1.4.9, I regularly cast audio to my wife’s Apple Homepod
True but I want a fully open source stack to replace it. Sendspin is looking really good so far
Ah. Open source would be better, but I don’t think AirPlay support is stopping anyone from using Linux.
I’m not sure about Sonos
Flatpack and password managers. They’ll oil and water.
What do you mean by that? I use the Keepass flatpak and even got autofill to work by adding some kind of launch option of I remember correctly.
I hear you. Kinda by design though. Its supposed to be difficult for containered applications to interact.
I think i installed keepassxc native. Then some config magic I’ve forgotten.
Not my pain point, but my friend’s.
He recently installed linux mint to try, mainly because of the dubious quality of windows 11. After using it normally for many hours (maybe for 2 ~ 3 days), his system just froze, the audio entered a loop, and he was only able to shut the computer down pulling it from the plug.
I have no idea why this happens, this used to happen to me as well on arch, but then it just stopped (maybe some package update fixed it?).
I’ve seem people pointing to proprietary nvidia drivers causing it, but I never understood how the driver could freeze everything in the computer.
A driver can absolutely freeze the entire computer.
That said it’s not really likely to be Nvidia since so many people are using that one without issues.
Linux people just like to hate on Nvidia and blame them for every possible issue because they’re not open source.
A device driver needs access to the system to control a device. There’s a couple ways of going about it, but GPUs are effectively required to use a kernel driver. A kernel driver runs as part of your system, and crashes have different effects from normal programs. If a normal program crashes, the system handles that, the program closes, too bad. If the kernel crashes, nothing can catch that, and your whole computer crashes.
That being said, with this little info on the crash there’s nothing anyone can do except speculate on the cause. It could be hardware, it could be the kernel. Whatever it is, you’d need more information (
journalctl -b -1after a crash and reboot) to diagnose this issue.Though important to note; if holding the power button for an extended period of time (30s) doesn’t shut down the computer, it is most likely a hardware fault.
4 seconds should be enough.
