I only really have two pain points, one of which isn't the fault of linux, and the other that probably is.

First: Adobe shit. I depend on Adobe Lightroom. This is entirely on Adobe. I know about the alternatives, but apparently I suck and can't get good at them. I keep a Mac laptop around just to use this application. I tried screwing around with Wine and VMs to get it working, but it's pretty useless without GPU acceleration, and so far the only way to get that in a VM is to have a second dedicated GPU just for the VM. Plus, that still requires keeping a Windows installation around.

Second: Wake from sleep. Just doesn't work properly on my desktop PC running Fedora 43 with KDE. AMD CPU and GPU, etc. The computer does wake up but the display never does, and nothing short of a hard power cycle seems to make it recover. Works just fine on my Thinkpad which is running the same environment, also all AMD but with just whatever AMD integrated graphics came with the CPU in that case.

Having chatted with some other people experiencing the same thing with similar hardware setups and F43 with KDE it apparently doesn't manifest if using GNOME, just KDE. For now I just have the desktop set to turn off the display when idle but to not put the machine to sleep. I am a KDE enjoyer, GNOME does not float my boat.

I really wish there was a good remote desktop method that supported attaching to my "local" session but keeping the displays locked. Similar to how windows RDP works.

If I have to remote into my work machine from home, I have XRDP setup to make a separate session that I can have run simultaneously to my local session. It's fine, but if I could use the existing local session that would be superb (without unlocking my local displays while I'm not there is the big point)

GNOME has RDP/VNC abilities, but in my experience a) the screen has to be awake, or else it becomes none responsive, b) it only worked with one monitor IIRC, and c) it unlocks the local display. x11vnc has issue C.

I think KDE is working on improved Wayland RDP? Haven't seen if it satisfies this. Sadly though, my work IT doesn't support Wayland

I wish amdgpu would get debugged so I didn't have to save every thirty seconds whenever I do anything.

Fedora: requires some rework of Nvidia drivers to wake the screen back up from sleep. Updating GPU drivers does nothing to improve game rendering so frame rates for games of yesteryear on a RTX3080 were single digit. Required some changes to h264 drivers just so I could see videos on YouTube or Dailymotion while simultaneously messing with my VLC install. My VPN blocks off my subnet whenever it's on so I can't access my NAS.

CachyOS (Arch fork): drivers for my printer aren't available without compiling them myself which did not go well. My preferred 3d printer slicer is difficult to install but that's because I'm a total noob when it comes to installing anything from GitHub. My VPN blocks off my subnet whenever it's on I can't access my NAS.

So far ChachyOS has given me the best experience out of a few other distros like Mint or Bazzite.

External web cams. Even those that are said to be fairly compatible have issues. And it's not with the cams, its v4l and the kernel drivers.

Mobile... I want a Linux phone 😭

I guess the biggest thing I'm missing right now is VR gaming.

But since my VR googles need WMR to work, I wouldn't be any better off with Windows 11 either.

I Developed a iOS App with xtool and its Not legal to use Linux for App Development.

I'm on openSUSE Tumbleweed using KDE Wayland

Sometimes my session will freeze up and I have to switch to tty and back to the GUI session to fix it.

I run a windows VM through winboat and it works well enough but it is particularly jank in regards to having multiple or even just 1 program open at times.

Every time I mount a veracrypt drive, baloorunner starts eating up my memory until I run out and I might have to hard reboot

Why am I seeing like 5 different posts like these, all of the sudden? They're all the same, literally same title, just posted by different users.

I'm using Fedora KDE, and for the first time in my life, an upgrade (42 to 43) completely borked the system, in a way that I couldn't boot to anything else other than a kernel panic.

I had to boot up a live USB, mount and chroot into the old system, and manually fix each duplicated / corrupted package. And it still caused every now and then some weird issue with dnf, so in the end I just reinstalled the entire OS.

I feel like updates "offered" via a nice and convenient gui shouldn't really do this out of nowhere - and I wasn't the only one to report this in the past half year.

Mobile

Multiplayer games in Civilizations VI take much longer to load on Linux Mint than they used to on Windows. Multiple minutes now vs about half a minute previously. Once loaded it's fine, no noticable differences between old and new. The longer loading times do become quite annoying when we need to reload/reconnect due to networking issues.

1. It's annoying to set up hibernate on Kubuntu and I can't seem to figure out how to add it to the UI.
2. i really miss the login UI of W11, just select pin, fingerprint, fido key or password. On kubuntu I have to unplug the fido key so it fails if I want to use my password. The UI also has no indication of wether I am entering the pin for the fido key or my linux password.

The biggest difficulty is music production plugins. Some have a Linux version, some work via yabridge and wine (with some GUI bugs), and some don't work at all.

On top of that, my initial attempt was using Mint with all of the audio optimisations (including kernel) but it was stuttery and slow. Unfortunately, oving to another distro is not painless when you have to move all the plugins too but CachyOS has been much better so far.

I don't like that I get zero feedback when typing in my boot-time decryption password. Like, I can't even tell if my keyboard is working. Did I press Enter or am I wasting my time staring at the prompt: "enter password for drive whatever (random guid)".

I've literally sat there with my keyboard not even plugged in, not realizing it wasn't dong anything because there's no feedback. Like, can't it show some asterisks? Or maybe "attempting decryption" after I press Enter, or anything? The only feedback is: it will either boot or say "invalid password" eventually.

It's a minor frustration, but it's every day that it bugs me.

(OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. LUKS2 or whatever, using the built-in encryption when I first installed it on my laptop.)

Not that it's Linux fault, but access to and compatibility with popular creative tools like Ableton or Adobe products.

Sure, it's feasible to use Wine to run these products, but not in any professionally usable manner.

Yes, I am aware there are Linux-friendly alternatives, but they lack the plugins, compatibility, features, and quality of their industry~standard counterparts.