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Geniunely curious, what are these annoyances? I only started using Linux (Ubuntu) around 2013 so I might miss most of these issues. Tho I'm still dual-booting Windows cuz of an old game with anti-cheat that refuses to run on Wine.

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Two things: 1) missing apps. Recent examples are 1password having a browser extension but no desktop client and I use several browser profiles, which results in me having to enter my 1password over and over again. Claude and OpenAI desktop apps missing. There are other more esoteric/personal ones of course, but those were the most annoying. 2) installing stuff is still a disaster. I most recently used PopOS and a mainstream app like Slack suggested Snap install, and I didn't have the Snap store. So I installed that and Slack installed but didn't work. Ended up installing the rpm instead which worked, but then the Snap Slack instance started working. So now I have two Slacks running and no idea which is which.

Yes, I'm a "noob" but like I said I have been doing this for 20 years. Have been a fulltime CTO for most of those years. Do server side linux admin fairly regularly as well.

Use a tested distribution and not something odd like PopOS.

Exactly the Linux attitude. Blame the user (◔_◔)

Just converted a month ago from windows 10 to kbuntu 24lts The first thing is really weird bugs when dealing with multi-monitors in plasma/sddm (getting into UI locked states or xrandr settings not sticking for whatever reason). The second annoyance is not having first party support for peripherals like my mouse and webcam (looking at you Logitech) or generally thick client software that has windows/macos candidates but not Linux. Third is publishers with anticheat DRM being extremely hostile to VFIO gaming. EA announced Apex losing Linux support and recently they just blocked all their EAAC protected games from running on VM.

And even despite all that and more I am so happy to be rid of windows as a daily driver.

Same here. The only thing I do to avoid trouble is to stick to the average business laptop setting for laptops and tower servers for my desktops. I've been trouble free since the early 2000's.

> Geniunely curious, what are these annoyances?

For me, it is lack of business critical applications. For example I use Microsoft Teams to attend meetings multiples times a day. And there is no Teams client for Linux.

To me, most of the annoyances are with the unpolished UI. No matter what desktop environment you use, it’s still 15 years behind Windows.

I’ve found KDE Plasma to be quite stable. At least compared to Windows. I haven’t used macOS in quite a few years but AFAIC it’s pretty much impossible to beat that UI.

For as long as I used Windows it always had a bizarre strata of inconsistent and increasingly archaic GUI styles going all the way back to Windows 3.1. I'm a regular user of Ubuntu, Fedora, and PopOS, and they all look and feel better than Windows.

I have far more annoyances with Windows 11 than mint these days but that is a matter of opinion and use cases I suppose. I actually generally used to like the Windows UI, but it keeps getting less responsive. I wish they'd just stop.

Here's one: Why does the OneDrive option load 3-4 seconds AFTER the new right click context menu loads causing everything to move down and for me to click the wrong thing as it moves under my mouse cursor? I hated that on the web so they brought it to the desktop UI.

What I love about Windows Terminal is the ability to run shaders on the contents of the windows. This should be a feature of the whole Windows desktop.

You're saying it like it's a bad thing. This is one of the major reasons I use FOSS UNIX-like operating systems. (Not just linux, but FreeBSD too.) Because the desktop environment of my choice has stayed the same for more than 20 years without the need to relearn everything and adjust your workflow every time somebody in Microsoft needs a promotion. Scary to think how much time for bullshitting on internet forums has been saved over that period.

And, if you appreciate consistency that much, even CDE is available as an option (although I don't love it that much).

I guess there is no accounting for taste, but I really find Gnome Desktop to be the one that wastes me the least amount of time. Mac is a close second (even though some things are hidden in hard to find places, such as the user's Python environment).

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