Linux

I ran Arch on my rig in 2023 and didn't use it for a few months. The next update broke a ton of shit including KDE.

Next time I might go with Bazzite. Or Manjaro and just take better care of it.

Been in a bunch of situations where the best available software is 0.x and hella buggy. (Which I discovered after building the software and its dozen dependencies from source because of course no one had packaged it.) But I'm not mad, I'm just "oh well, the situation will improve in the future, I hope".

I first used it in the '90s so a resounding yes.

More recently, trying to get video editing software to work properly and not break as soon as I upgrade was the one. Also I couldn't get a bunch of HAM stuff working properly on Mint and I just don't have time to throw at it.

Sure, I wanted nanokernels for massively parallel small-memory hardware since 1990s.

back in the bad old days yes all the time

not any more

Been using linux for more than 10 years as a less technical user, and yeah pretty regularly.

Its still my OS of choice, but theres a fair bit of jank around the corners you interact with less and places where the GUI methods for things just kinda fall short.

But I like having an OS that shows me tech treating me with dignity and respect is possible. So many problems in this world are hard to know how we might solve, but technology that treats me justly is a thing I can have today, and given its actually able to meet my needs, thats pretty cool ☺️❤️

Never. Sometimes it's a pain, but I can live with that.

Just a little bit with the direction of GTK and Gnome. Yes, I'm still salty about that. I miss GTK2 and Gnome 2 where everything could be customized and there were thousands of different themes. Of course, I switched to MATE and I'm still using it, but all my favourite GTK2 themes eventually stopped working and now my desktop looks very generic, like all the others.

Again, I know I'm free to be nostalgic as I want and install any project that wants to try to revive or keep GTK2 alive. There's apparently a few. But I'm just a bit disappointed that it went this way. I switched to Linux more than 25 years ago because I could customize it to look like I wanted, and the more time passes, the more those features are getting hidden or removed and now everything looks the same.

The amount of issues I've had with sound on Linux, I'm currently running Cachy and I'm still not getting it through my laptop speakers. Bluetooth on Arch is tempermental at the best of times too...

Never. Very disappointed in the general software companies not wanting to make their software work on Linux though. That will be mandatory once I become king.

And a blanket ban on using noreply@ addresses.

Trying to find the path of a mounted USB stick is painful as well. Is it at /mnt, /media or /run? Who the fuck knows.

At least with windows you just have drive letters

Hardware acceleration sometimes makes videos play at low frame rates.

But overall much better than every other OS I've tried

Disappointed at linux directly? No.

Disappointed at linux indirectly? Absolutely.

• Nvidia's linux support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
• Ubuntu
  • ~~Unity~~ (at least it's gone from main installs now)
  • Snaps
• ~~KDE~~
  • ~~Version 4~~ (at least it's good now)
• ~~Fedora~~
  • ~~Forcing their own broken version of OBS that didn't work~~ (they finally removed it)
• Wayland
  • ~~Not supporting screenshare~~ (fixed with portals)
  • Not supporting global shortcuts (currently being investigated)
  • Accessibility (currently being investigated)
• Gnome
  • Not supporting system trays
    • Most people don't want their background apps (discord, teams, docker/podman, OBS, etc...) to be filling up the foreground.
  • Not supporting server side decorations
    • Literally the stupidest decision ever made
    • Not supporting it forces all other developers to spend their time integrating their own client side decorations just so users can move/close a window in someone else's desktop environment. (example: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408#%3A%7E%3Atext=Client-side+window+decorations)
    • Not supporting it means every developer has to deal with issues being reported to them that aren't their fault.
    • Not supporting it means every developer now has less time to work on their own applications.
    • Not supporting it means that humanity has wasted a stupid amount of time reimplementing the same thing over and over again instead of just once.
    • Gnome saying that: "it's not part of the standard"
      • Buddy, you're the only one holding it back from being standardised.
        • Cosmic: Supported
        • Hyprland: Supported
        • KDE (Kwin): Supported
        • Unity (Mir): Supported
        • Niri: Supported
        • Sway: Supported
        • etc...: Supported
        • Gnome (Mutter, and those downstream like Muffin): Not Supported
        • It has... by all metrics... become... THE defacto standard.
      • "It's not in the official wayland standard"
        • Buddy, wayland needs to support more than just the desktop metaphor. It also needs to support things like phones, handhelds, kiosk machines, car infotainment systems, etc... where having a window on a screen doesn't make sense. You are a desktop environment using the desktop metaphor, you need to support the basic functionality of moving windows that pop up on the screen, and you are the only one failing, and not only failing but failing so hard you're negatively affecting all those around you, and not only that but you're also not being accountable to how your actions are negatively affecting others.

Yes. Bluetooth has never worked correctly for me, NEVER.

Across multiple distros and multiple adapters, I've gotten various problems. Right now on NixOS, reconnecting a peripheral never works, I get an error that br-create-socket failed, and the only solutions are to restart the computer or forget and re-pair the device. I've gotten this error on two completely different Bluetooth adapters.

My Bluetooth works perfectly on Windows. I don't know why Linux is so finnicky about it.

People complain at something not working are missing the point.

It's open source. You spot something you don't like, change it.

Learn to code, contribute, fix things.

There is very little stopping you.

If you're not disappointed at something with Linux, you're lying to yourself.

And I love Linux and wouldn't use anything but.

I'm disappointed by the number of packages that aren't signed by developers.

Or that go with less secure package managers like flatpak instead of just working with Debian devs to add it to the official repos, because apt is actually secure.

Overall Linux has shifted over the past 10 years to be more of a dangerous place to download software. So more like Windows and Apple.

Yeah, it's usually quality of life misses. An example: if I mount a network drive (mine auto-mounts upon login) and then that NAS goes down for whatever reason, if I open Dolphin it'll hang trying to connect to the offline network drive and never timeout. I can restart my NAS and then as soon as it's online again, my file manager will open 😅.

I'd have to manually unmount in terminal if that NAS became non-functional. Windows just times out and marks it as offline so File Explorer still works.

No.

I've only even been disappointed at myself.

And Nvidia.