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.
Thermaltake Riing fan controller needs special python software. It worked fine from RPM in Fedora 42, but it hasn’t been updated for Fedora 43 yet. Tried installing with pip, and creating a systemd service, but it didn’t work immediately, and haven’t had time to fuss with it again. Probably just going to get new fans I can control through mobo.
Was using default Fedora gnome, but it started getting into hibernation loops. Swapped to KDE, but I’m not sure I cleaned up the gnome install perfectly.
When my PC goes into sleep or hibernate, my keyboard won’t work after it wakes up. I have to unplug and reconnect my keyboard every… single… time…
Except for this issue, my PC works perfectly fine and better than Windows in nearly every way.
Struggling to get my dev environment setup on nixos. A bit of a tutorial gap for LEAN4 and sagemath in particular.
No autohotkey style automation, in particular I miss hotkeys that would move the mouse. Kmonad has done a ok job of rebinding keys, though it doesn’t convert a held key into multiple inputs afaik.
Some VR games on steam are also a bit rough, possibly a graphics driver problem? (Though I would be just as happy for a Linux optimized resonite competitor.)
I have an issue with my laptop on my school’s network, which is likely an issue with the way the network is configured, because I’ve never had the issue on other computers or networks elsewhere, but sometimes my laptop(Linux Mint ThinkPad T490) will stay connected to the network, but say ‘authentication required’ and have no internet access until I reconnect. It also sometimes pops up a password box and asks me to reauthenticate to the network which I do, still using the same saved password. This gets annoying while writing tests that use browser window monitoring software. Like I said, it’s probably an issue with the network but none of the windows or Mac users seem to have this issue so maybe someone has come across something similar or knows how to fix it.
Off the wall idea, but what if you apply a static IP on that network? Then you’ll only have issues when the DHCP server happens to hand out the same IP which you can simply change the IP and have a decent chance of getting a free one
That’s actually a good simple fix which hadn’t occurred to me, hopefully it helps with whatever shitty routing problems theyve got going on. I don’t think there’s even an IT guy employed by the school so…
Just submitted a bug report to KDE for Discover where
apt updatefailed behind the scenes due to Synaptics changing some value in their repo. It just needed a confirmation [y/n] to continue, figured someone would want to do it.When the update process feel so perilous that I pray every time that my system reboots to the desktop safely, because the pain of troubleshooting the issue for 4 or more hours still haunts me (Nobara linux).
And I’m not new to linux, but because it works as expected 95% of the time, that 5% where it doesn’t work stands out so much more.
I recently experienced a failed update on my laptop running arch, where the laptop lost power for some unknown reason, and bricked my system. I was so tired of this shit that I just downloaded cachy OS and wiped the disk, installed the OS and called it a day.
I know not everything is the fault of linux, but man . . . . There’s too many small problems to count . . . The fragmentation of application UI frameworks, GNOME this, QT that, GTK there, wlroots here, wxWidgets over there . . . . KWin randomly crashing, scripts that should just be a part of the WM instead of breaking with every update, lack of standardization of UI menu structures, wayland being great but still not good enough for production environments, THE UTTER LACK OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS FOR AUDIO PRODUCTION ON LINUX, WHYYYYYYYYYYYY
Briefly:
My ThinkPad and it’s snapdragon 5G modem. *ubuntu is the only distro where it works, and it only works because I am using the fcc unlock scripts that are no longer functioning automatically/by default. The docs for this are abysmal and atrocious.
On my desktop, my creative sound blaster cards (two of them, AE-5 and Z) when set to surround/5.1 - FL and FR are correct, no other channel is. After days of research and tinkering, I achieved no progress and it has been a known issue for like 8+ years, according to forum posts. Stereo/2.0 is fine.
My desktop is thus stuck on W10 (there are additional hurdles but that is a blocker), while the TP is for niche use cases. I do more server stuff than desktop/workstation.
I wish my Mint wouldn’t freeze so hard it blocks out all input.
100% agreed. Why is this even possible
I find it very difficult to run windows programs that don’t have an automatic steam/lutris compatibility setup but require manual configuration. Havent had any luck getting stuff like game/map editors or obscure modding tools to run so far.
Aside from that i am pretty fine, excluding the keyring app. Wish there was an alternative because it never works for saving or providing login data any more.
That’s odd because I’ve had a ton of luck adding random crap to Lutris including obscure model railroad software
Could you elaborate on your process/give me a link to the guide you use(d)?
I would love to be able to mod certain games again.
I generally prefer to manually install and update my own mods so I’ve never tried running a mod manager in Lutris, but generally the thing you want to be mindful of is if you have everything running in the same wine prefix that needs to interact with each other. Each wine prefix is kinda isolated from another, so when you change which wine version (and therefore prefix) launches a given software, it loses all of its stored data from the appdata folder because that was left in the old prefix
I always use protontricks if I need to install something additional to a Steam game or Heroic Games manager, it can run arbitrary .exe files in a wine/proton prefix.
