@nixCraft Magnifiers not being good enough / cumbersome to use on most DE's / WM's.

@nixCraft The year of.

@nixCraft that not all software works on every distro. I know it would be nearly impossible to achieve that, but still

That was a reason for me to not use OpenSUSE tumbleweed for a long time, and now that most I need works I can't use LACT because there are some errors I can't find anything about online, even with the OpenSUSE rpm

@nixCraft That I'm not able to simply drag and drop icons in any start menu as easily as in pre-8 Windows.

@nixCraft Security. Just security.

@nixCraft nvidia drivers and figuring out compatible interfaces to use with 3D software. Wtf is this session and an entire gui going bye bye just because what, a driver/graphics issue? Pick one session. develop to it. Don’t make this entire experience harder than it needs to be.

@nixCraft lack of rl support. No computer store ‘nerd herd’ would support Linux for the average user if they had a problem. If you use Linux it’s expected you’re ok fixing your own problem just doing your own searches online.

This isn’t scalable to other types of non tech users who would require specialists.

Hence it will remain an exclusive niche group who use it.

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Terrible UI

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Missing standardization

"THE Linux desktop"
is something that simply doesn't exist.

And that is the biggest hurdle to get more users into Linux in my opinion.

@nixCraft I had it break more than once after doing an upgrade. Manjaro is especially susceptible to this. Looking for suggestions for more stable Linux alternatives. Ubuntu or Debian?

@nixCraft Open source, not only free.

community-driven.

@nixCraft that I still need to live in windows for basically every engineering cad package out there...but really applications not knowing what monitor to return to when plugging my dock back in

@nixCraft Just one: Still waiting on a final, correct fix on the libmateweather issue that keeps the weather from working on my task bar!

@nixCraft the disagreement wayland and my legacy nvidia gpu have

@nixCraft the stupid hardware. My wifi card is a bastard, my old Nvidia GPU is full of gremlins and my motherboard is full of bloatware.
Gods please, I'll do my nerd penance in the terminal all day but give me a laptop that is open all the way down.

Overpowered. Struggles with multi-tasking.

@nixCraft So more in keeping with the spirit of the exercise -
The fact that I had to do no tweaking at all to get it installed on 3 mini PCs and 2 laptops in my household without ever looking at any hardware compatibility lists or anything.

It's just much too easy for newbies to get started without requiring permission from the greybeards.

@nixCraft Serious answer -
The press pretending it's so difficult.
"Even Ubuntu is 200x harder to install than anything you've ever done on Windows".

If you've installed software before, you can handle most modern Linux installers. The defaults are reasonable even when the options "sound scary" so there's really no justification for it.

Commodity hardware is 99.9% supported now. The average "I just bought an all-in-one/laptop from a major vendor" machine is going to work perfectly.

@nixCraft my biggest problem with the Linux desktop? I get too much done too quickly

@nixCraft The press pretending it's so difficult.
"Even Ubuntu is 200x harder to install than anything you've ever done on Windows".

If you've installed software before, you can handle most modern Linux installers. The defaults are reasonable even when the options "sound scary" so there's really no justification for it.

Commodity hardware is 99.9% supported now. The average "I just bought an all-in-one/laptop from a major vendor" machine is going to work perfectly.

@nixCraft nvidia drivers

@nixCraft Printing. To be fair, this complaint is not limited to Linux desktops.

@nixCraft The insane defaults.

I wish there were more mobile OS options. I'm going to try the Ubuntu on a galaxy 3, but I wish there were more options

@nixCraft systemd in most desktop pc's like come on runit is so much better.

@nixCraft gnome and its awful ecosystem