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.
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.
Noob take.
Yes, I installed Fedora and everything was working OOTB. Nothing to tinker with, no issue with sound, WiFi, Bluetooth or external screens. Then I moved this SSD to a new AMD laptop and it worked perfectly. It even switched from Intel to AMD utils by itself.
So disappointing.
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.
During the early days of Pulse Audio. Sound sometimes would stop working for inexplicable reasons.
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
Oh sure, all the time.
A computer running public auditable software refined by some of history’s top computer scientists…is still just a computer.
We taught spicy electrified rocks how to help us fill out tax forms.
It’s going to fall short every so often.
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.
Isn’t everything in dot files in home? Create package lists and export them, add dot files.
Or keep home on a seperate partition or drive.
New installation, import package list.
This seems straight forward to me.
I’ve never tried it, even if I know people are using it.
Still it’s not an easy solution like the one people are using when upgrading from an old to a new iPhone.
I know Linux doesn’t have Apple behind, but it’s better than Windows/Mac in every other way, so why not try to improve this?
I am not sure whats to improve, it is just a situation where it is easy if you know how.
As for the iphone, the amount of trouble that process has caused me is not trivial. Things are not the same! I would put it as more complicated. People are just used to dealing with it. Part of the issue with the iphone is applications and Icloud crap.
Yes, but to folks accustomed to using SuperDuper to create bootable backups, it does not seem so straightforward.
That seems like a completely different issue, if you just want a clone then clonezilla, which is also easy.
Gestures vaguely at Ubuntu…
I am disappointed at professional application support, but not with Linux specifically. In my professional life I have needed to use products like Visio, Adobe Suite, Autodesk software, and others.
I am often forced to use Windows for my work computer because of these limitations, and while I realize its not the fault of Linux, the lack of install base demanding professional applications run on Linux is a community issue. While I always prefer FOSS over PROP software, sometimes I really do need to run PROP software on linux, and that means convincing enough people to demand that support from the developer.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.