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.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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.

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        16 hours ago

        Ah it was just a reference to how that backdoor was found. I don’t actually monitor my boot time, though maybe I should at least have a script comparing it vs historic instead of just hoping someone else would find that kind of thing.

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    5 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

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    5 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.

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    5 days ago

    I started playing Warframe again recently, after a many years break (something like five years). There’s an app that shows you the value of random rewards that open, so you know what to choose (WFInfo) I have not been able to get it to work. There’s also Linux alternatives, one of which I’ve been messing with trying to get it to run, and the other is much more limited.

    Other than this, I have no recent issues. I’ve been full-time Linux for like three years now, so I’ve got everything sorted, and I usually can get anything running that I need, even when people say it doesn’t work.

    Edit: for anyone who wants to help, I’m on Garuda (an Arch based distro). That probably won’t matter, but who knows.

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      3 days ago

      The last time I tried WFInfo, it wasn’t working for me on Windows either, so maybe not a Linux issue. But if you get any of the Linux alternatives running, I’d be interested too.

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        3 days ago

        Wfinfo-ng seems to work alright, but it’s only a terminal application and it only does fissure rewards. It sometimes fails to read, but so far it’s like 90% success, only using it today. The biggest feature I wanted was to check the value of stuff in my inventory to sell, because a lot is vaulted and pretty valuable, which this doesn’t do.

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    5 days ago

    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
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      5 days ago

      Running Arch when you hate the terminal and want stability is quite the mood.

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    5 days ago

    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.

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      4 days ago

      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.