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.

  • Fierro@piefed.socialEnglish
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    7 days ago
    • 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

  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
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    18 days ago

    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.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I miss start menu ads, intrusive bing searches, copilot upselling, MSN news, and uninstallable things I’ll never use on my PC like Xbox.

  • GhostOfHoxha@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    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.

  • Nalincah@feddit.org
    0·
    18 days ago

    Leaving Standby. Can’t count the times I’ve opened my laptop to just see a black screen. Hard reset was the only option

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 days ago

      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 -1 to 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.

  • JAALU@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    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

      • JAALU@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        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).