Bluetooth is very buggy, but it's not too much of a deal breaker.

I miss a task manager-like shortcut to come out to the desktop and easily kill processes freezing the PC.

After building my new machine. I swapped from Windows to Bazzite, then now CachyOS. It's been pretty smooth.

My current things are:

• Ring timeouts on my 9070xt. I feel like I've tried everything. Seems like this is an issue with directX 12, swapping to 11 works for the most part.

• Wayland shenanigans. I want to use PTT in discord. If I use the x11 environmental, it works, but that then means I can't PTT when using my browser. Using the git that everyone recommends works globally, but seems to be adding Ctrl or alt to my press after starting a game, which breaks my in game keybinds. For now it's the env fix and swapping to voice activation if talking while browsing.

• Hyprland stuff including keybinds to open on my other monitor when my first monitor has a full screen app. I can launch the apps and set full screen properties via window rules, but need to toggle full screen in order for it to work the way I expect. Oh and then there is also the problem with the wallpaper swapping forcing my workspace back to 1, even if I am on another workspace using an app.

Most other stuff has been nice. I don't miss Windows in the slightest. These are just the last few bits to bother me and are by no means show stoppers.

The only issue I have faced, and still no solution that I can find is that I can't sleep my desktop. I'm running Arch (i7-12700KF, NVIDIA RTX 3090, Asus motherboard)

I've looked at the Arch wiki, and nothing I have found has helped.

Been daily-driving Linux for going on a decade, but recently got a "smart [bicycle] trainer" and a Zwift subscription.

Using this the Zwift program runs just fine. However, passing sensor data through Zwift Companion on my Android (GrapheneOS) phone, only some of the sensors connect and others don't.

(Running Zwift itself on my phone connects to the sensors correctly, so that's what I've been doing so far. I would like to get it set up more completely, though, with a decent-size screen for the main program and freeing up my phone for Zwift Companion, so I do need to troubleshoot it eventually.)

Utilizing TPM for full disk encryption.

I wanted a cheap way to try out using a tablet to read music from at my amateur orchestra. I couldn't find a large-screened affordable android tablet, but I got hold of a cheap 2nd hand Surface Pro 5, a Surface Pen (for making annotations on the music), and a bluetooth foot pedal (for turning pages).

I figured I'd try sticking Fedora on it, but even with the surface specific kernel installed, it did not seem stable. Waking it with the power button randomly stopped working entirely, seemed quite sluggish, that kind of thing.

Even if I'd got it working, there are basically no ideal options on Linux for music reading software. Other platforms have MobileSheets, enScore, etc. If the core OS experience had felt more robust then I was looking forward to trying to create one myself in Qt, but just to get something working I had to give up and stuck a LTS edition of W10 on it instead, which (sadly) does work great and seems very stable in comparison. This makes sense - it's a very Windows-specific bit of hardware; I was just hopeful that it's basically just a x64/UEFI device with a bunch of tablety peripherals, so Linux should be an option even if it's missing a few features. But I can't risk it blacking out or failing to respond in the middle of a concert.

For some reason, my Vizio TV doesn't get signal after my media pc goes to sleep and wakes up or the input changes and changes back. I have to completely reboot the computer every time.

CachyOS for what its worth.

Struggling to get my dev environment setup on nixos. A bit of a tutorial gap for LEAN4 and sagemath in particular.

No autohotkey style automation, in particular I miss hotkeys that would move the mouse. Kmonad has done a ok job of rebinding keys, though it doesn't convert a held key into multiple inputs afaik.

Some VR games on steam are also a bit rough, possibly a graphics driver problem? (Though I would be just as happy for a Linux optimized resonite competitor.)

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.

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.

Upgrading distros after a couple years of stagnation is a huge pain point. Why can't i skip versions in the middle?

Also for some strange reason, my both my PC and laptop with ubuntu freezed multiple times during update. Even while copy a large number of files, it happened. The workaround was to use tty thingy and skip UI completely.

Also, lack of proper errors could be another thing, while updating my distro, I kept getting strange errors that linux-firmware could not be updated. It took multiple bricks (including breaking filesystem and booting with usb to fix it) for me to realize the issue was, i was using a custom kernel mod for wifi devices that I installed 6 years ago cuz of a bug in kernel (which was fixed in versio 6.1+ i believe) and the error it was giving was reaaaally not helpful

For me, I think a really interesting take would be if Linux had a stronger office suite — meaning IT could more easily justify being a “Linux shop.” Active Directory + Microsoft Office 365 is the killer combination that leaves so many professionals saying “just use Microsoft.” Then it’s so much more natural to just issue everyone a Windows machine, and keep it that way because it’s already set up that way. If Linux could bolster itself to impress a similar level of confidence in IT professionals at the office, I think we’d see many more jobs willing to let their staff work on Linux (or even choose it exclusively for the business).

There would need to be corporations that can accept the same levels of liability Microsoft does, but for Linux. For many organizations, it comes down to who’s liable for what theoretical issues.

I wish my Mint wouldn’t freeze so hard it blocks out all input.

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.

I need Nvidia graphic drivers for a card Nvidia just up and decided they didn't want to support. I ran updates and after rebooting just had no compositor until I moved to another driver set. Real shitty move, Nvidia. 1080 strix founders overclock. Now Vulcan is hit or miss.

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.

Everywhere.

Thermaltake Riing fan controller needs special python software. It worked fine from RPM in Fedora 42, but it hasn't been updated for Fedora 43 yet. Tried installing with pip, and creating a systemd service, but it didn't work immediately, and haven't had time to fuss with it again. Probably just going to get new fans I can control through mobo.

Was using default Fedora gnome, but it started getting into hibernation loops. Swapped to KDE, but I'm not sure I cleaned up the gnome install perfectly.

Games with anti-cheat don’t work.

Secureboot doesn’t like GRUB.

Solidworks doesn’t run natively on linux, neither does my Sketchup Pro program.

SteamVR doesn’t run well on linux

What does work that I use regularly? My older DVD drives work fine, ripping my music and dvd/blu-rays works well and seamlessly with multiple instances of the programs running simultaneously. The typical FOSS stuff I use is a no-brainer, from Gimp to Blender to Libreoffice.

But for the stuff I work with most and the games I play most often? It just doesn’t work well or at all.

When my PC goes into sleep or hibernate, my keyboard won't work after it wakes up. I have to unplug and reconnect my keyboard every... single... time...

Except for this issue, my PC works perfectly fine and better than Windows in nearly every way.

I find it very difficult to run windows programs that don't have an automatic steam/lutris compatibility setup but require manual configuration. Havent had any luck getting stuff like game/map editors or obscure modding tools to run so far.

Aside from that i am pretty fine, excluding the keyring app. Wish there was an alternative because it never works for saving or providing login data any more.