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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.

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[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] codr9@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] Banthex@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Dang what're they go a do? Send you to jail?

[–] Banthex@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago

Block account

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

I crossposted this from .ml (but text posts like these don't really crosspost well, which is why I tagged the original user instead for attribution) but it appears that the original user posted it themselves to like 3 other different comms, just on different instances so I didn't notice lol

[–] Mavytan@feddit.nl 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Are you running the native version or through Proton? When I played Civ VI the Linux native version performed worse than using Proton, ironically. Either way, maybe try switching?

Since you specified multiplayer I'm guessing it's not time to load from disk or anything.

[–] Mavytan@feddit.nl 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm running it through proton, didn't get the audio on the native version to work

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Mobile... I want a Linux phone 😭

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[–] 42beansinapod@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  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.
[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

When fingerprint or whatever is setup as a PAM module for login it can decrypt your home folder, so you can do the initial login with it

[–] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Sunspear@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm looking forward to the Steam Frame, hopefully it'll support SteamOS out of the box

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[–] v3r4@lemmy.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] pamphlet939@feddit.org 2 points 23 hours ago

For me it is missing good and easy setup software for trading. Yes some platforms run in browser, but the experience is not that great as native app. Maybe some find their setup that is OK for them, but for now I haven't figured this out for me as I want specific broker(EU) and broker with API access and some 2FA security. Not that many options as I'm used to on Mac or much more options on Windows. Maybe I've found that SaxoBank broker with TradingView integration might work for me, when trading on larger timeframes(hourly and more), but if I wanted to trade on low timeframes(3mins candlesticks etc.) then it's unusable for me as TradingView updates prices slowly and I need faster update of ticks and candles. TradingView is also american software, so I would rather not use that too as I'm trying to get rid of as much american software/goods as possible. I was having problem running Metatrader or cTrader through Wine, but it was some time ago and I might try that again. In some time it will settle and I'll find the proper setup for me, but not ideal for now.

[–] Sunspear@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I second this. I use Gimp, but it’s UI and UX is just the worst I’ve ever seen. (It has some great tiny features here and there, though.)

I hope this situation would improve over time, and I’d try to contribute as much as I can. So, fingers crossed. Otherwise, I’m quite happy with Linux being my primary OS for many years.

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks, I use it, but I could mention it, so it’s great you did! To me, Gimp became usable, I cannot stand its interface without it!

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago

I agree, GIMPs UI is pretty nasty. Same as LibreOffice Writer, but I still use them.

[–] slurp@programming.dev 22 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.)

[–] difficult@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

crypttab provides "password-echo" option, something related on archwiki here

that should fix it

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

for me the blinking cursor resets when i enter my luks key 😅 so when i see the cursor immediately disappear i know my keyboard is workin, but absolutely agree on that

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[–] MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 hours ago

When I log in to my desktop it sometimes freezes, sometimes crashes too and I have to either restart or go into terminal to restart the service. Happened in endeavourOS and now in cachyOS

And now in CachyOS on every start up my "open on start" applications open where my mouse is pointed instead of putting it where it was last on my monitors.

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