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 have not really had anything. I do have a thing where my mouse goes wonky but I think its the my touchpad and not linux.
There’s nothing wrong with it. Quit trying to kick up fud.
Bah, got downvoted to hell because I accidentally responded to you instead of being a top level comment. Don’t even know how, hadn’t read your comment before.
For several years I daily drove PopOS and it was good. I liked their window management. It was unstable, especially with waking from sleep, which led to filesystem corruption sometimes, but timeshift always bailed me out.
Then I tried the Comic beta and loved the paradigm but it was even less stable.
Then I found Bread on Penguins on YouTube and got interested in how Steam was putting all this work into gaming on Linux, and how Wayland was supposed to be so much better for gaming.
So I tried Arch, but it was A LOT. The games did not run well. I feared I was missing a lot of crucial components.
I found the Asus RoG Linux site and switched to Cosmic+CachyOS. The games ran better if on the laptop screen only but Cosmic was still unstable.
I tried Niri but that created a ton of flickering when two monitors were plugged on, which is my typical setup.
I played around with nvidia drivers more as I had been doing the entire time but this time fucked my system up and my new setup of time shift didn’t save me.
So I clean installed CachyOS on Gnome. The games still run well enough on the laptop only. Two monitors works and is stable but the framerate is low in general and my mouse is choppy. I had to spend hours rewriting scripts because Gnome isn’t wlroots based and so doesn’t support fuzzel/rofi/et al. When waking from sleep it will fall back asleep like 4 times before staying up, so I’ve turned sleep off.
I feel pretty exhausted and defeated in all honesty.
When i start PC (mele go2) and forget to power on the screen, if i start it after boot PC, the sxreen stay black…
I’m running endevourOS with KDM and there are some major issues with bluetooth…I can’t get some devices to connect (e.g my keychrone Keyboard, and Cricut plotter)
I still have to disable my wireless mouse, when I hibernate, because I couldn’t be bothered to adapt the udev rules to disallow the mouse to trigger the pc to start
And finaly, I just got back into X4 Foundation and my HOTAS setup depends on which device is recognized first…either its correct, or the controls are swapped (stuff that should be on the joystick is on the thrustmaster and vice versa)…un- and replugging in the correct order fixes this, but one wod think that it would lock the controls to a fixed device identifier
- 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
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That’s a problem with the game producer not making it for Linux, not Linux’s problem. Take it up with the game producer and maybe with Steam’s Proton support.
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.
Thank you, I will give it a try.
Remmina doesnt work for you? Or does it suck with multimonitor servers specifically?
It sucks with multimonitor and is laggy as
My linux mint installation is frequently timing out on some part of the start up process. I’m half guessing it’s because the windows partition is fucking with things, because every time it happens and I switch to windows and back again, the problem resolves itself.
But I also don’t care to diagnose the issue any further, because I’m going to be doing a fresh install of everything soon.
This issue did not affect my previous laptop. However, under heavy load, my current laptop sometimes freezes and even REISUB sometimes failed to work. The only way is to force power off via button.
This persisted across all distros from Debian based to Fedora to current Void.
Other times, laptop will stutter to a near halt post some complex process and even after said process(like a Handbrake task) is closed, continues to act as if the resources were never freed.
I only used Windows 11 for a single month b/w 2016- current (other wise, distro hopping was default) and it was stable. I can’t pin point the actual root cause (driver issues, kernel level problem) but still persist with Linux (Windows has its own stuff of problems that we all are aware).
I wonder if maybe it’s a governor problem. Laptops are often super power limited, sometimes even more so thermally limited, so they rely on increasingly bonkers power profiles to try to balance it, but pegging the laptop at 100% utilization such as while transcoding can still cause it to fall over. Have you played with adjusting the power profile at all?
It is not a power profile problem since I have looked into that. Even under normal circumstances, simple stuff like having tons of tabs open cause it to creak. Yes the hardware is not cutting edge but my previous laptop was worse (4 GB Ram) and whilst Linux showed it’s limits then, it never came close to crashing ever. I don’t think my Debian install in the past ever freezed on older laptop.
But it is bonkers on this model.
My biggest challenge is really around Podman on Bazzite. It is just different enough from Docker to be annoying. I had the system lock up, and the Podman containers / pods (whatever you want to call them) would not launch. In fact, the system claimed they didn’t even exist. I was looking for the files and logs all over to try to figure it out. I ended up doing a clean shutdown and restart and then the container started without issue.
The second issue I have is also related to my Jellyfin container/pod. I have gone through all the recommended settings and troubleshooting, adding permissions exceptions, all the podman settings, and I still cannot get it to take advantage of the Nvidia acceleration unless I put SELinux in permissive mode, which the Internet says is a bad thing.
Other than, honestly Bazzite has been great as my daily driver for about 4 months now.
Docker is available for Linux.
I couldnt even get it to work on chrome ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Handful of Windows desktop apps that don’t work well on Wine - WeChat desktop, LINE app desktop. I do tons of copy pasting of mocked up screenshots and stuff. It just doest work as well as in windows.
Linux hobbiest for a couple decades, began daily driving a couple months ago. My workflows for graphic design have been extremely stunted without being able to use Illustrator.
I’ve been looking for a reasonable replacement since 2012. Reasonable meaning it can do everything I need it to do and without slowing down productivity. So, this pain point didn’t come as a surprise, it just is.
It’s a tradeoff I made willingly and with full knowledge of the ramifications. I have zero regrets, even if I’m handicapped on certain tasks.
Now that I’m daily driving, I’ve been able to learn much more than when I just had Linux on my gaming box. For instance, I friggin love how expandable Dolphin is. Batch resize and convert images with a couple clicks from a file browser? Hell yeah!
The terminal has also become a closer friend, but I still hate VIM. :p
That is a vendor problem, not a Linux problem. Take it up with Adobe.
