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.

  • steeznson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    People having politics arguments on FOSS fora or mailing lists. We have a basic interest in open source in common, why are there additional purity tests being applied to people who don’t act “sufficiently” left wing? Or, equally as often, why are you throwing around playground insults like a 14 year old and discussing conspiracy theories?

    Basically people not behaving respectfully to others.

  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    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.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    A lot of the Linux community are the most obnoxious entitled scumbags I’ve ever met in my life.

    The amount of people that get very demanding or hate developers (who are donating their time for free) when they don’t cater their project towards that user’s desires… it bothers me. It’s even present in this very thread. It’s an extremely popular viewpoint to have, and it seriously bugs me.

    If you don’t like how a project is run, don’t use it. It’s their project.

  • ThunderComplex@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Not a Linux thing directly but something that bothers me a lot: The complete lack of support from professional applications.
    Wanna use this tool that cost hundreds of bucks on Linux? Lmao fuck you.
    You’d think companies that actually make money could afford to support Linux and hobbyists doing FOSS stuff for funsies can only focus on the OS they use themselves but somehow we live in a world where the opposite is true.

    This is what makes switching to Linux for me personally and probably a lot of other people completely unviable because it means having to give up on thousands of dollars of stuff for “freedom”.

    And the onus is 100% on the companies developing software. They have to offer Linux versions first, so people can switch to Linux, giving them more Linux users. Doesn’t work the other way around.

    Oh also psst don’t ever mention spending money on proprietary software around Linux people, they will have a heart attack.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      This is the most important issue facing Linux adoption by far. I wish Valve or someone would step in and start improving Wine/Proton’s general application support. A couple years ago someone made a fork of Wine that got Affinity running, but those improvements never made it back into the upstream project. Productivity software not being given serious consideration is a common problem with Wine/Proton as projects.

  • pathief@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    My one major complaint is audio in general. I’ve had so many audio issues. If you need an eq or noise canceling it’s a pain to get it working. There’s always a bug somewhere, always a random distortion.

    Voicemeeter is the only thing I miss about Windows. I really do.

  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
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    17 days ago

    The communal infighting.

    Why has Wayland taken more than a decade to get to a somewhat acceptable state, but still lacking standardization?

  • hedge_lord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Libinput. I want to use wayland. I would use wayland. I will not use wayland because libinput is the antichrist.

    Every now and then I update my system and go to move my cursor and say (aloud) “wow, this is ass!” And that’s when I know that I’m in a wayland session or libinput has otherwise been selected as my touchpad’s input driver. And it’s not like other Linux things where I can just change some settings to tune it, noooo, because why would you need to do that?? Let’s just make an input driver that shakes the cursor with my every heartbeat and a hardcoded acceleration profile that is simultaneously too sensitive to click small things and not sensitive enough to move a window across the screen without multiple touchpad strokes because that’s perfect on every system and everyone should just be okay with that because it’s the standard and good and I hate it hate hate hate hate

    Hate hate hate hate hate

    Hate

    (I very much appreciate you, libinput developers, you do great work and I am grateful for it, and I just have some (kind of maybe very strong) suggestions about configurability in your design philosophy)

  • crozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    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…

  • twice_hatch@midwest.socialEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Ubuntu and GNOME

    I’ll be nice in case the developers are reading.

    I just think they’re both pretty misguided in their goals.

    Ubuntu used to be Debian plus your laptop’s Wi-Fi works out of the box. The hardware support has improved and now Debian in 2025 is better than Ubuntu, plus Debian never shows you terminal ads or prompts you to snap install something that obviously isn’t going to run well inside the default Snap sandbox.

    I wouldn’t recommend Ubuntu to any new users now. I’d sit and install Debian stable with them, and if something is missing, I’d try Debian unstable or the proprietary repos.

    No offense to on-the-ground Ubuntu devs, but Ubuntu really feels like Debian plus a billionaire’s desire to make money reselling Debian.

    GNOME… Wants the desktop to look like a phone. Got rid of the system tray and then you have to do a little dance t re-install it. I don’t know why. I’ve had useful stuff in the system tray since Windows XP.

    I think GNOME might have also spearheaded the trend of ruining SEO and documentation by naming apps what they do instead of with real names? Like “Movie player” or “Web Browser”. I don’t know if they did any studies or if it helps new users but it’s real weird for advanced users. Most people know that “Chrome” is a brand of web browser, so why would you name your web browser “Web Browser” and make things weird? I like KDE’s thinking. Pick a name and wedge a K into it. And then make an anime furry its mascot. Can’t beat that!

    There was a conspiracy theory years ago, because someone from Microsoft was making decisions at GNOME, that GNOME was going to be eaten inside-out by MS, like Nokia was. They were rolling .NET Mono stuff and some kind of object model… I don’t think it got far but I don’t care. I switched to xfce on my desktop and KDE looks great on the Steam Deck and laptop. KDE used to be heavy, but hardware got bigger.

    I actually love the package managers on Linux. Apt would be better if you could install multiple versions side-by-side, but I get why that’s hard. Whenever I use Windows it’s like, gross, I have to use MSIs again? I can’t just apt install git curl wget screen lua? And on macOS I can install brew but a lot of apps use that funny pattern where you drag it into the Applications folder, and then you must remember to unmount the disk image, and also some apps aren’t in the Applications folder.

    I actually love systemd and everyone can fight me on this. Systemd is really nice.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I wouldn’t recommend Ubuntu to any new users now.

      Same. I also have a hard time recommending Mint as an alternative because of major hardware support problems the last time I tried to test drive it (which was a few weeks ago). I always come back to Fedora, but OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is also wonderful, and I’d happily recommend either to newcomers. I did try CachyOS recently and stuck with it for a couple weeks, but recently went back to Fedora because of the constant AUR security issues.

      I refer most new users to Bazzite if they just want to game and do normal things. For more technical users, I recommend flipping a coin over Fedora or Tumbleweed. Flatpak is the great uniting force in Linux right now, and I wish more developers would directly support it since community versions make me uncomfortable unless I thoroughly review them first, and I really don’t enjoy that. The prevalence of Ubuntu-first packages is a major problem as Ubuntu rapidly enshittifies while Fedora and Arch communities are left to pick up the slack themselves. Pure Debian is fine, but release cycles are far too slow for my tastes.

  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Having to install apps manually and figure out dependencies myself because a popular piece of software only officially supports Ubuntu and Debian. No normal human would ever do this. They would go back to Windows. Hell, I still haven’t even gotten one piece of software to work on my new OpenSUSE system yet: Beyond Compare 4. [UPDATE: I got it from work. Either I was blind or they just added OpenSUSE instructions. ]

    Why are there so many package managers with such different syntaxes? And why does one repo maintainer decide to call a package “package” and another calls it “package4”? Or some entirely different name! It’s maddening. I’ve had to create empty proxy packages that translate package names just to install some RPM file. Again, the average person is not going to do this.

    In KDE plasma, the first thing most people do is set up Wi-Fi on their computer, but you need to set up KWallet first or else the password gets stored in some other dimension. I accidentally typed my Wi-Fi password wrong, and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to clear it out and make it ask me for the proper password when I try to connect. I even went into network manager and switched the network to say, “ask me every time”. It wouldn’t! It would just sit there and hang on “authenticating”. I never did figure it out. I ended up forgetting to encrypt my system partition, so I simply reinstalled the OS.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      And it’s not only obscure software on obscure distros.

      The Arduino IDE doesn’t run on Fedora 42. It just doesn’t work.

      I personally don’t need it, I use ESP-IDF on Platformio, but Arduino is an incredibly common piece of software and one I would have expected to work flawlessly on Linux.

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    15 days ago

    We have awesome distributed systems like Kubernetes (rke2, or k3s as easy distro examples) BUT no desktop usage.

    I want a distributed desktop dang it. My phone, my smart tv (media PC), my gaming computer, my SOs gaming computer, my router, my home lab, etc, etc should theoretically all be one computer with multiple users, and multiple interfaces.

  • cute_noker@feddit.dkEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I hate that nobody recognizes Linux as a legit OS. But that is the same with many FOSS projects like LibreOffice. The format is not recognized in a lot of places, which is insane. Microsoft really have their marketing prefected

    • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      The problem with Libreoffice is that they are satisfied with being a second-rate clone of the baroque mess that is Office 2007.

      Google Docs is the last thing to push the Word Processor forward, kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

      I’m pretty sure there’s a viable solution in the git +markdown+latex space but no one has quite found it yet. LyX is close-ish but misses the mark.