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 miss start menu ads, intrusive bing searches, copilot upselling, MSN news, and uninstallable things I’ll never use on my PC like Xbox.
Jarvis, I’m low on karma. Make a quirky comment about windows 11.
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It is probably because I am a moron and just took a long time to figure it out, but its always harder to set up network shares with my linux desktop than any other machine in my house. At this point I know how to do it pretty well, but its a LOT more involved because none of the GUI tools seem to really work right.
Like I will share a folder from my server (also running linux BTW) and its instantly viewable on my windows laptop and even my streaming devices, but to discover it on my other linux machine is always a chore that involves editing a few config files and just kinda randomly poking around until it works.
- Obs uses more cpu in cachyos than linux mint, no idea why or what I can do about it, experienced the same difference between manjaro and mint (might be something to do with kde)
- audio breaks, when I boot I have to switch to output devices to fix it. No idea why
- sometimes it logs out of the desktop and when logging in it freezes
Having said all that I’m having the time of my life with cachyos, everything works great and better than it ever has in my experience running an nvidia GPU. I did do some tweaks of my own, wizh I didn’t have to but it’s not bad at all
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.
Peripherals…
• A document scanner with pretty great Windows software that has features that are not nearly as easy to do with FOSS Linux software (splitting documents, auto cropping and alignment, OCR, etc)
• A 3D printer that doesn’t have Linux software, so I can’t easily send prints to it from Linux
• A webcam that supports device-level configuration (zoom, cropping, etc) but doesn’t have Linux software to control it
Out of interest, which printer? Anycubic Kobra by any chance?
Regarding the camera: you could probably script this with ffmpeg and let it output the cropped stream as a virtual camera but I am nog going to pretend this sounds very appealing to most people.
Regarding scanning. Maybe you can scan to PDF and then use this: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf . does seem to do OCR also but havent tried it myself.
Printer: FlashForge AD5X (more in this comment)
Camera and scanning: Yes, I could put together some sort of solution, but “you can get it working by spending time putting a solution together that entails more manual steps (or scripting or whatever) and/or requires the CPU/GPU to do more of the work” is something I’d prefer to not have to do. And this makes it less compelling to advocate to others if they also have any such peripherals or workflows.
Definitely not a fix but have you tried this? https://winboat.app/
I have a KVM/qemu VM (which doesn’t work for some things because of the lack of an easy way to do bridged networking over wifi) and I’ve tried WINE (which appears to not support a DLL that FlashForge’s Orca Slicer needs to work). WinBoat is on my list to try, but my guess is that it also won’t support bridged networking over wifi, and I’ve already spent too many days on this problem.
Just confirmed that Winboat (like Docker, KVM/qemu, and other container/VM solutions) can’t do bridged networking over wifi. At least one Windows app that I’d like to be able to use (FlashForge’s Orca Slicer) needs to be on the same LAN as the printer in order to work (in LAN mode so it can be used from more than one computer).
The 3D printer doesn’t support a plain serial interface via USB? I believe most can accept g-code over it and most slicers can serve it? Been a while since I was using non-Klipper printers though
FlashForge AD5X using FF’s Orca Slicer, which has better support for their IFS, and for which there isn’t a Linux build. The printer is in a different room, so running a dedicated cable isn’t a viable option (and would regardless still fall into the “inconvenience or compromise of using Linux”)
Things have gotten A LOT better since I started using it, but here’s a list of things I hate after using Arch with KDE as my main OS for almost 7 years:
- Not having an archive manager as good as 7-zip was on Windows. Ark is a good replacement but it supports less formats, has less options when compressing, and most importantly if you close the archive while extracting it silently fails (reported in 2019, still not fixed)
- You can’t make an account without a password (yes, I know I can configure the sudoers file and polkit to skip password prompts, but that’s not user friendly). For the average user, having to type the password after login is incredibly annoying, I would like to have something like the UAC prompt in Windows
- Wayland: it was made mainstream waaaay too early, causing a lot of issues with both Qt and GTK applications, some of which persist to this day, especially with fractional scaling and HDR
- Developers seem to think that I enjoy using the terminal: I don’t, I hate it. Why isn’t there a GUI for pacman supports the AUR and doesn’t suck?
- Random broken commits being pushed to stable. I’m talking about “how the f did you not notice this?” kind of bugs, like how I had to rename files twice in Dolphin before it would actually rename them. It was fixed quickly but how did this get into stable in the first place?
- Flatpak having its old ass version of mesa in the runtime, causing all sorts of issues if you have a newly released GPU. I stopped using it because of this
Running Arch when you hate the terminal and want stability is quite the mood.
Leaving Standby. Can’t count the times I’ve opened my laptop to just see a black screen. Hard reset was the only option
I’m going to be honest, as a long time Linux user I also think this is one of those issues that is more common than it should be. It’s incredibly annoying and really pushes you away from using it as your daily driver.
Btw, check your last boot’s log with
sudo journalctl -e -b -1to see what its dying words were. If you’re lucky it’s dying when coming back up and spitting the related errors in red, but sometimes it will just be “Reached target sleep” in which case it’s a bit of a bitch to troubleshoot. You can look through the logs to see if any error might be related, but if you’re not well versed in Linux it might as well be an alien language. Common suspects: Nvidia, Bluetooth, encrypted swap or RAM, ACPI bugs, BIOS needs an update.
I cannot for the life of me, get hibernate to work with nvidia
I believe most people have kinda given up on hibernation :p
so its not just a skill issue?
Afaik: no
Been on it permanently for years now. Only complaint is that I found XFS to be better than BTRFS, though most people probably wouldn’t notice.
Only other “complaint” is Fedora doesn’t have a lot of support for embedded arm devices, so you’re on your own if you want an RPM style distro on something like an Orange Pi.
Been on it permanently for years now
Haha we can tell by the fact your complaint is about filesystem differences. Thats such a linux user complaint.
A recent update added 104ms to my boot time and I am SEETHING and will get to the bottom of this and make those responsible pay dearly.
Hmm, wonder what changed. What are you running?
Remote desktop to windows PCs, using multiple monitors is terrible. I work in home office alotnow and I cant use my Ubuntu desktop fulltime because the remote desktop options on Linux suck. They either dont work or have severe lag problems. I have Windows for this only.
I have no experience using it with multiple monitors, but I’m using Remote Desktop Manager from Devolutions as we use that at work. They have a pretty capable free version and actually makes a Linux version too. Just a hopeful suggestion.
Remmina doesnt work for you? Or does it suck with multimonitor servers specifically?
Bluetooth headsets. Still can’t have sound and microphone at the same time, which isn’t great.
That’s a limitation of Bluetooth itself afaik, when bidirectional audio is active and the headset goes into “hands-free mode” you get a shit bitrate. Windows behaves the same, not sure about AirPods on Mac
