Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.
I am disappointed we still don’t have a solid FOSS smartphone OS that can compete with the 2 monopolies who have cornered the market.
I don"t want ro sell my soul to Google or Apple just to use my bank (even on my computer thanks to mandatory 2fa apps) or to renew my government issued ID or to buy a train ticket on European public transport.
That disappointment isn’t with Linux
depends on where you draw the line.
in the past, i’ve been mildly dissapointed by the drama-queen-esque antics of the kernel developers; but i most recently DEEPLY disappointed by how thoroughly the kernel developers to caved to the us gov’t’s demand to kick out russian developers instead of complying maliciously like others do.
both are separate from linux, but linux can’t exist without them.
postmarketOS, LineageOS, GrapheneOS?
I know they have limited hardware support but that’s only a matter of involvement at the end of the day
I wanted GrapheneOS but all Pixel phones have this huge ass camera house on the back.
Pixel 10a is flat.
Gestures vaguely at Ubuntu…
I’m ubuntu show you some of the dumbest decisions a distro has made
Sorry mate, want to try that sentence again?
No man he tried. That’s what Ubuntu does to a mother f*****
Yes because Linux encourages you to make it your OS by customizing it, but it’s not easy as it should to create a backup of all that work so that you can easily deploy it on another computer.
I know that Clonezilla works in some situations or that NixOS coulb be a solution, but it’s not should be easier.
More the people behind it than the distro, but CachyOS. Aside from the performance improvements only being marginal, I was happy with the convenience after a decade of using Vanilla Arch. It was the first distro ever to tempt me away in that decade. I was really, really disappointed by the response to the age verification bs. The mods did a terrible job with discussion on the forums and the devs never made a formal response. The upside is I learned more about Systemd and now happily using Artix. So at least some good came out of my disappointment.
The best way to learn something new is to be upset by something old.
Worse case you learn something new! Best case you find a better option for yourself.
For years…every time I needed to configure a printer. Sometimes when I needed to find drivers for a wifi card. These days…it just works.
During the early days of Pulse Audio. Sound sometimes would stop working for inexplicable reasons.
Not with Linux per si but surely I have with the LKML and Linux Foundation guys. With Linus and Greg. RH, Canonical, Gnome. And so on…
I get it with Canonical and Red Hat, but why Linus? What is he doing recently?
It’s more what he’s not doing: blocking MIT licensed drivers in the kernel.
Also there was that thing with banning Russia from the LKML. He stressed over he was a Finn at that opportunity. Don’t ask what the Finns were doing at the WWII. And he’s a pro status quo kind of guy.
God forbid a fascist authoritarian government known for cyberwarfare be banned from working on the Linux kernel.
Do you mean the USA? UK? France? ISRAEL???
You NATO removed are ridiculous. And the true enemy of the humankind.
user is from lemmy.ml
Yeah, that tracks
It would be one thing to ban a fascist government, but he didn’t ban the Russian government, he banned a whole country of people who have no control over or choice in who the government is or what it does. And worse was that he spouted what amounted to racist sentiment as a defence.
Nope, okay I fiddle more with complex scenarios than ever before with windows. But I never lost files/progress than I lost with windows bluescreens. And since everything is open source and documented. There is always a way to find a solution, even if its a reddit post 12 years ago.
It’s difficult to be disappointed with something that is free.
Actually, one shouldn’t be disappointed with things. Only people can disappoint you.
I was disappointed in the Debian crew when they standardized on systemd when it clearly wasn’t ready yet.
And I was disappointed in the people running some distros that made Wayland the standard when it clearly wasn’t ready yet (a few apps I rely on don’t support it or run poorly on Wayland even now).
Other than that, free software, free choice, and a lot of learning possibilities. You just have to adapt your expectations. Change hardware, change software, change distros, and learn.
Mostly before proton and wine got really good tbh. I also have a ton of the old free Ubuntu CDs and we can see where that went 😔
I’m also pretty disappointed with the security standards on Linux, flatpak next pls save us
While Linux is
imperfectperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experiencestraightforwardcomplicated./s
Not so much in Linux as in tools I want on Linux being Windows only (or X11).
- Microsoft’s Terminal App is my favourite console application, there are a ton of other applications to use but nothing hits just right in the way their application does.
- GOG Galaxy. There is Heroic which is an excellent application the integrates really well with GOG but (the last time I used it) cloud sync was Windows only, so you had to run proton/wine to get cloud sync support even though the game had native Linux support. In the end, I just wish GOG could if not port their client to Linux, at least help Heroic Launcher make cloud sync work with Linux.
- xdotool - I used it to automate hiding/showing my terminal window. I tried ydotool but could not get it to work.
Ydotools is one of the biggest failure and letdowns I’ve ever seen. It makes me sad every time.
During the HTML 4 days.
xdg-desktop-portal is the only thing that really gave me anger
2 times:
Recently an update broke something in flatpak and in consequence freecad would refuse to load completly. There was no way for me to know what actually happened and all the time i thought freecad was at fault.
The infamous gma500 driversupport condeming so many netbooks to become ewaste instead of having a second life with linux.
I’ve been using it professionally and personally for 30 odd years and sure there have been some issues from time to time but honestly they pale in comparison to the number of times it has blown me away with it’s awesomeness. :)
