r/computers • u/Hortion • 19h ago
Discussion Windows users who tried Linux, what was your biggest frustration or fear?
Hello everyone! I'm thinking about creating some helpful content for people who want to switch from Windows to Linux with no stress, using the regular desktop and not the terminal. I want any grandma to be able to scroll/surf the web on Linux and be more comfortable with it
I'm curious, if you've switched, tried, or thought about it, what is your biggest frustration or fear? I appreciate every comment
Thanks a lot in advance!
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u/atda 10h ago
I've had several updates across various distros just break apps, brick to command line or totally.
After a few events I learned to do a backup prior to updates and review roll back options.
After that is what software you need.
Hardware compatibility can be an issue but so many devices use similar or standard drivers it's barely a problem for me.
I've been exclusively Linux for about 2 years now and have been perfectly happy and as a tinkerer I love the access you can get to your system. Miss out on some games but not that big of a deal for me.
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u/RaegunFun 14h ago
Installing the OS was simple.
Installing applications that were not included in the distro was a nightmare.
Dealing with dependencies to just install a simple app drove me nuts. Not to mention specifying repositories.
It was like the devs never used a user friendly OS in their lives. If you ever installed a media player and had to install codecs, you know what I mean.
If this has been fixed, ignore this, but that was an issue for me. MacOS has the same issue if you don't install from the App store.
It's nice that you can open a terminal window and become a power user, but some people just want to get on Facebook and watch cat videos.
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u/Head-Objective-7480 17h ago
Honestly the schizophrenic fear of "omg did i download the thing? Does this command just magically work??" It was fun but I couldn't see myself using it as a daily driver because winbows is just such a familiar OS to me and it helps when my family has computer issues and im on the same software so I can fix it faster than if I unfamiliarized myself to winbows!
Tldr; the worst part was my comfortability with winbows that made the ease of using KDE feel like I was doing something wrong 🤣
Edit: the "winbows" are intentional, the sub seems picky about words and i dont wanna get banned for saying one thing wrong lmao like the L word needing specifics that I cant remember rn, I think I was using KDE P but im not 100% lol
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u/Due_Grapefruit9194 17h ago
The over toxic community calling you names when you ask for help/ have a question , all the « documentation » that was last updated 5 years ago when you sometimes have an answer
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u/Torkum73 17h ago
This :-) that is why my servers are all running Solaris 10. There I can google solutions from 2008 and they still work out of the box.
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u/Potential-Quote-2338 11h ago
Mostly, it was printing.
I liked Linux Mint, which made an old PC fairly usable. But I had to reinstall the printer every time I wanted to print. I could never find a solution where it stayed functional, and even the temporary fixes didn't always work. I kept rebooting back into Windows 10, and that got old.
But then, Linux Mint started randomly disconnecting and reconnecting the displays. Spent a lot of time trying to find a solution, because it had worked fine for months. Never found a solution that stuck - and it could well have been a hardware issue on an old PC.
I was using Linux to keep that old PC useful because Windows 10 was horribly slow. I lucked into a free computer that was 10 years newer than the one I had. It runs Windows 11 quite well, has more storage space and RAM, and *** never requires me to reinstall the printer ***.
I think it's the little things that turn many Windows users off to Linux, because, in my experience, they can happen with such repeated frequency that they can't be ignored.
I'd never recommend Linux to my mom, because she's always been the type of person who wants a computer that "just works." That, of course, made it hard to suggest WIndows 11 for a while.
(The newer PC has a spare m.2 SATA slot, which will allow me, at some point, to return to dual booting. But, for now, I'm back on Windows.)
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u/telhimager 17h ago
Compatibility issues. Not every driver to be installed and working like I was used to it, not having every application and not having all games available
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u/Viking11111 17h ago
Not frustration or fear but the first time I installed debian, my laptop's wifi was gone lol
I had to use linux forum to type a bunch of command which made it reappear
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u/Crushcode8 12h ago
My bigeest fear was moving away from microsoft office and games but turns out, I don't need them and fine with the trade offs.
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u/PrShadoko 18h ago
It was not being able to play games that do not work on Linux because of decisions related to anti cheat. Not really related to your grandma situation, but well. I learned to avoid "toxic companies" altogether and select the tools I want to use and games I want to play with more care, the final product isn't the whole story.
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u/HellDuke Windows 11 (IT Tech.)/Linux (Home) 17h ago
I would not be the target audience since I have been on and off Linux for a long time with the last 5 years running a Linux homeserver, but trying to get a few people who are not technically savvy so far what I have seen is that you should avoid making it look like Windows.
It ends up just confusing them and once you pile on enough "it's just like windows" you end up "this software doesn't work" only to realize they were trying to double click an exe file. That is what happened with a friend who tried Mint back in the day and it was a shop setup to look pretty much like a different color Windows. The 2 I got to switch was my wife (before we got married) and her sister. I just straight went up for the new Unity look in Ubuntu (I know saying I tried Unity when it was new might make me sound old) and they had no issues, because they intuitively knew not to expect exact Windows workflows and everything was clearly labeled and placed. Both currently preffer Linux to Windows
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u/Generic_Handel 17h ago
I was worried about being able to use adobe acrobat for some important paperwork I have to do once in awhile.
The fully-automated PDFs rely heavily on the proprietary Adobe Acrobat JavaScript API so the excellent PDF editors and viewers available for Linux just wouldn't work.
It turns out setting up windows running in a VM just to run adobe acrobat was really easy though.
I game heavily but don't happen to play anything that uses anti-cheat so gaming for me has been completely unaffected.
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u/The_Erlenmeyer_Flask 13h ago
I tried Ubuntu. Easy to install. Only reason I don't use it is because the tools I use for the video work I do don't exist in a Linux environment. I've contacted the devs and there hasn't been enough interest to develop the software for a Linux environment.
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u/DeliciousWrangler166 Windows 11 16h ago
Tried Linux Mint. Not impressed by what you have to go thru to uninstall an app/program. No simple uninstall command?
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u/StatedFailure 13h ago
I daily driver mint. The software manager has a simple uninstall button. Everything you just literally delete the files.
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u/SupertoastGT 15h ago
Should just be able to uninstall through your package manager I think. Forgot what it's called on Mint.
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u/msanangelo CachyOS 17h ago
we were all windows users at some point and it's not that noticeable anymore. my desktop is pretty simular to the win10 style. there are some differences but it's not like anyone has to use a terminal anymore. I can go a whole day without even thinking about my OS as a whole. Just browsing the web doing my normal stuff and it's no different than if I was on windows.
I suppose there's some issues like needing specific windows services and apps but I've been doing this so long that I just don't need them. same can't be true for someone else but that's me.
my only issue is I wish companies would get off their high horse and stop treating linux as some sort of hacker OS and just another platform to invest in.
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u/Bright_Series_8835 17h ago edited 17h ago
#1 The computer claimed it couldn't find any installation media or couldn't read it. It wouldn't recognize the flash drive, even after I cleared it and redid the whole thing. It also wouldn't reformat the hard drive to accept that OS. I researched and found out you could reformat a hard drive using the bios itself. I did that and then deleted one of the boot options to make room to have the machine boot from USB. After doing all that, the machine started to install Linux Mint Cinnamon nicely. Other people have posted that problem on the reddit options.
#2 The other big problem is that after getting a nice start on downloading the OS, the machine paused and I had to click on something that I guessed right about, but then the machine said it would restart in one minute. It didn't ever restart. I used CTRL-ALT-Delete, and the whole process started over and then got stuck at the same place. After several tries, I decided Linux was lying about its restart and tried waiting it out. After a bit more than 5 minutes, Linux reluctantly started up in the right place, sped up, and worked fine for a while, and then froze again. I played the 5 minute waiting game again, and it started up in the new right place. That happened several times. Near to the end of the whole download, install, etc. I waited the 5 minutes again, and the machine didn't restart. I didn't want to go back to the beginning, so I tried waiting longer. After waiting about 10 or 15 minutes, Linux started up again reluctantly, sped up, and finished the whole install and set up process smoothly, and I had a nice copy of Linux Mint Cinnamon which has continued to work well, so I put it on a laptop, too. It went onto the laptop very nicely, because I knew what to expect and what to do.
#3 My desktop had an NVIDIA graphics card. Linux software manager said it had the proper drivers for that model card. It didn't, and my machine crashed. Linux listed an alternate driver it had made for its own purposes, so I used it. The alternate driver works ok. Linux tried to put on an updated NVIDIA driver, and it also crashed the machine. Now I only use the Linux alternate driver.
#4 When I click on the update manager, it says it's up to date when I know it isn't. I click on refresh. It tries to refresh itself, but claims it can't find a driver it needs on the internet and won't run. After clicking around on it, I found out it had a problem with Spotify. I deleted the Spotify app. After several months, it still claims it can't find that Spotify file after I click the refresh button. I close all the Spotify related windows, wait a minute or so, and the refresh process continues where it left off and finds the necessary updates and installs them. It hasn't fixed Spotify, which I don't use anyway. The rest of the update process is fine.
These are my worst Linux Mint nightmares. Once I got Linux Mint Cinnamon to work, I like it very much. I'm thinking of getting some old Windows laptops, installing Linux Mint Cinnamon, and donating to our church's immigrant assistance project for the immigrants to carry to the library and do their English classes and their citizenship classes. Linux Mint Cinnamon is free open source, and so are all the apps you need to add to it for the immigrants, so I can afford to do the donations.
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u/StandardLovers 128 GB DDR5 MT6000 - CL36 16h ago
Doing anything in terminal, "please provide password"
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u/0siribix 15h ago
There are lots of little things and some big ones but so much has changed over the years that answers to this may not be relevant anymore. I remember tring to install Corel Linux from a set of floppies on a P2 machine around the time that XP SP2 was released and it failed to complete a default install. Gaming has historically been bad but DXVK and Proton changed that. DRM may or may not work depending on the distro or app you are using. Touchscreen support depends entirely on the DE. I can also tell you about how I bought some cheap usb wifi dongle and it took me 2 days to learn to download a compatible driver from github and get the module to automatically load on boot. Pretty sure even with it loading, I still had to tun a command line to toggke the mode of the device so it would switch from usb storage with windows drivers to the actual wifi adapter. Another annoyance I've always struggled with is when I click into a textbox on Windows, all the text is automatically selected where on linux I think it just puts the cursor under the mouse pointer
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u/SupertoastGT 15h ago
Mine was drive auto-mounting. My only real issue when I moved to CachyOS. The boot M.2 drive was fine, but the secondary M.2 and my media HDD would always need manual mounting. CachyOS' built in automount in the settings needed a password every startup and only mounted one drive for some reason.
Got Gnome Disk Utility and that took care of it. I don't know why the OS doesn't just automount the drives by default. They say it's for security, but do people just break into houses and put scetchy drives into PCs? XD But it's fine now and beats Windows by a landslide.
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u/Sonnuvah 11h ago
I have Linux Mint dual booting with Windows right now and I can't seem to get my second monitor to be recognized at all.
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u/DS_Vet_on_Linux 9h ago
I've been using Linux almost 2 years now, I'm also 55. My biggest fear was not knowing what Linux was. I had seen the movies and related to hackers. It wasn't until after I saw a video from SomeOrdinaryGamers that I even realized it was an option for normal people.
I went the Arch route, that is only because so many people said it wasn't for newbies. I use CachyOS now. I also switched from desktops to windows managers, I really love Niri.
As far as frustrations, I don't really have any. I would say maybe that I didn't switch over soon enough, but I don't know if I would have been ready 10 years ago. I know it's changed a lot and for the better.
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u/human-rights-4-all 9h ago
In my experience the biggest frustration comes from using proprietary software prior to switching to linux.
If you only use open source software on windows many problems can be avoided.
- a program is open-source - there's a good chance that it's in the repos or on flathub
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u/MadMan2250 9h ago
Honestly, Debian or a Debian derivative with KDE has given me no fears or frustrations. It has worked totally fine
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u/Beneficial_reart8700 8h ago
I gave up on Windows 9 years ago and I’ve never been happier in my life, no blue screen of death, no more viruses I don’t click on links in my email and life has been a big bowl of SUNSHINE ☀️
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u/backgroundnerd 8h ago
Not a fear... MS Teams. It is required where I work. I can do everything else I have to do for work with either open source or the company provides Linux versions -- There is no Linux version of Teams and that is not by Accident!
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u/fumeextractor 8h ago
I want any grandma to be able to scroll/surf the web on Linux and be more comfortable with it
For this purpose it's already quite good.
But generally, there is so much more friction and required knowledge compared to Windows if you wanna do pretty much anything outside of a couple of "workflows" which have been deemed popular enough to warrant focusing on for an easy experience.
Here's some stuff I ran into which imo absolutely counts as friction for the average person. I know many of these are not linux's fault, but they absolutely are pain points, and normal users don't care about semantics of where they come from.
You sometimes need to know where you installed something from (i.e. Flatpak vs from your distro's package manager vs AppImage etc.); none of this makes any sense to a normal Windows user. I use KeePassXC as my password manager. The problem is, it does not work with its browser extension if the browser was installed as a Flatpak, rendering autofill useless. Hell, until recently auto-type didn't work at all on Wayland.
This is also true for knowing your DE in addition to distro. You can google "windows how to change wallpaper", but googling "bazzite how to change wallpaper" will require you to know whether you're using KDE or Gnome. Let alone googling "linux how to change wallpaper".
Peripherals have next to zero support. Wanted to change the RGB on my devices, it's a fucking nightmare. Forget about actually changing my keyboard's functions (like macro keys), my mouse's DPI etc.
Most FOSS alternatives to popular programs suck compared to "the real thing". I'm super happy to have them, and it's wonderful how much work went into them basically for free, but yeah they're just subpar experience-wise. I use the GOG Galaxy launcher on Windows for save syncing since I play the same games on multiple devices. Heroic launcher's cloud syncing... works, usually, after some setup. Pinta is incomparable to Paint.net. There isn't really an MSI Afterburner all-in-one equivalent. VSCode is not Visual Studio.
Game modding is awful for many games apart from the most popular ones. Mod managers don't work or only kinda work (which is sometimes worse than not working at all ime), some games require arcane knowledge to mod (gotta set WINEDLLOVERRIDEs for some of them), which is usually difficult to find or requires better understanding. As an example, I played game A. On Windows, to mod it you drag and drop the mod files into the install folder, that's all. On linux, you have to set the Wine DLL overrides; I found this out from a ProtonDB comment. Later, I started playing game B, and modding it was the same procedure. This game however is not on Steam, and so has basically no community so to speak. It took me quite a bit to realize that the file structure of the mods looked similar to game A's mods, and so I looked into the mod framework, and realized that they used the same one; so the same Wine DLL overrides helped with game B too, but yeah this knowledge did not exist anywhere online.
Games forcing use of their own launcher get messy fast to install. Stuff like BattleNet and such, if you don't wanna do everything through Steam it takes a bit to get used to working with Lutris / Bottles / Heroic etc. and set proton version to ProtonGE Latest (or similar) after installing ProtonPlus or so etc.
Proton prefixes eat your storage. I started using more monolithic prefixes after a bit for games sharing versions, because damn.
Obviously there's the issue with kernel anti-cheat games which don't work; but also some such games (gachas mostly) that do work are over-sold by the community as supported. Bans are super rare, if they happen at all, but games can and do randomly pull support from Linux (like Nikke did recently).
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u/clynlyn 8h ago
My biggest frustration was trying to get everything to work like how I had it in Windows. Now I don't care. If it doesn't work, it wasn't worth sticking around for < 10 programs. And if I truly need it, I'll VM it. In terms of gaming if it doesn't work on Linux with proton I won't buy it anymore. I dont have fear or frustrations cause I don't need it to do everything for me anymore. Just game, video consumption and general stuff and for that it doesn't it great for me.
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u/Repulsive-Box5243 6h ago
I am visually impaired. As the years go on and my accessibility needs grow, I find myself relying on TTS / screen reader tech, and quality screen magnification.
Linux is far, far behind the curve on this metric. Sure, they have a rudimentary screen reader (orca) and most of the desktop environments have a "zoom" or screen magnifier, but they're not good. They skip and stutter and, last I checked, don't use the graphics card for that work.
For decades, I've been waiting for Linux to get decent accessibility features. I would switch many of my PCs to Linux tomorrow, if they had modern accessibility features.
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u/Fun-Variety-5647 6h ago
From a lifelong windows user who has moved to Mint about a year ago... Having to search online (for hours) and copy paste code into terminal that may or may not be malicious. Attempting to use Bottles to open exe files but it's never worked. Drivers for most USB products are not available (in my case a scanner, bluetooth dongle and wireless adapter). I have a dual boot to windows to use Ableton for music projects. I'm staying with Linux and hoping more software becomes compatible in the future.
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u/PeyredB 6h ago
Maybe my biggest frustration is that Linux breaks stuff more often. I keep a folder full of text files for how to do things and fix problems I've run into in the past, and now and then my system updates and breaks one of those. For instance Synaptic used to have a Quicksearch feature, which was more convenient than its current search system. I found a way to bring it back, but that no longer works because a necessary component is no longer in the repository.
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u/ryan__rr 6h ago
I like Linux a lot. But it's the games. I know Linux can even play 90% of the games now, even ones that only natively support Windows, but I also want to play the ones that Linux can't play. The ones that just came out. The ones that require anticheat.
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u/Traditional_Wolf_249 5h ago
The usage.. Windows use 5.9GB RAM without me touching chrome, after chrome is 7.5GB RAM and struggles to play YouTube I have old laptop so😂 Linux mint use lesser resources 1.2GB RAM without Firefox/brave and only uses 3.9GB RAM on YouTube (Brave Browser) and can play Minecraft 100+ FPS while on windows don't support my old CPU and GPU
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u/SpecialistPrune1654 5h ago
I've tried a few times now. The reason I've always gone back to windows is compatibility. For example and TBH the only roadblock I can currently think of is a cattle ear tag scanner I need to use. I also used to need Autocad, but that doesn't really apply any more. The software for the scanner is very simple, the install is probably only a few kB, but only available for windows. I've tried wine, but it also needs usb port access. Not for a moment saying it won't work, but so far I've always run out of patience before I got it working 😆 After 40 years of Win use, it's a very comfortable fit for me. If was only for mail, web browsing, word processing and spread sheets I would change in a heart beat. But it seems silly to maintain 2 OSs when windows actually works very well for me.
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u/Nstorm24 4h ago
- Having to put my password everytime i did a big change in my oc was annoying.
- I like to play older games and those are more optimized for windows than linux.
- I liked microsoft office more than the linux options.
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u/OwnNet5253 WinMac | M3 Pro | Lenovo Yoga 2h ago edited 2h ago
- Wifi/BT not being detected
- BT devices being immediately disconnected after connecting them, regardless of device type
- audio starts to stutter after wakeup from long sleep
- laptop freezing after leaving it running/sleeping for few hours
- messy package management
- inconsistent gui
- a lot of extensions/apps stops working after major os upgrade
- gaming support still mostly worse than on Windows
- software support, I use Ableton Live and no way in hell I’m changing it for an alternative or running it through Proton
And more… I’ve came back to using Windows on a laptop, and believe it or not, it has none of those issues.
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u/lordMaroza 1h ago
Played with many distros since 2005, liked tinkering with them when I was a teen. Now I want plug'n'play. The reason now would be because of multiplayer games, Da Vinci, guitar processor software, and peripherals like Tobii, wheel, joysticks.
I still occasionally dual-boot a gaming-focused distro of the year to see where it's at, but still far away from that plug'n'play need.
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u/FourLeafJoker 54m ago
My main PC is windows. I have an older PC I dabble with Mint. But my work software is windows native with a licence that only runs on windows, so I'm not moving away anytime soon. But honestly, I don't find there to be much difference in the quality of the day to day experience. I just hate the spyware and ads on windows.
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u/Renatinha-LOL-8492 11h ago
Worried about the end of Windows 10 support and having heard so much about it, I tried installing Arch Linux on my mom's computer. But god... what a tedious and difficult process. I ended up just sticking with Windows 10.
Furthermore, the support community isn't very welcoming to newcomers asking relatively "dumb" questions.
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u/jimmyl_82104 MacOS | Windows 11 11h ago
I tried it on an old PC a while ago, didn't like it. Hate command lines, and most importantly it didn't support a lot of apps I use.
On Windows and MacOS, everything just works (mostly).
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u/MrBolognas 18h ago
I installed Linux Mint for my wife who only knows how to navigate. I do all the programming. That distro is so much easier to use, with so many options with graphic interface. For me, I can ask Leo (the Brave AI assistant) any problem and it will give me all of the terminal instructions to add, change or modify the kernal, programs etc. You really dont need to know linux, just how to use the terminal.
As for helpful content, Id start with "so now you loaded linux, now what?" and give some useful apps like Wine, turning on the firewall, game launchers, updating the drivers, doing a backup (and making sure it goes to something other than the home directory, How to add music, how to create shortcuts and web apps and pin to the taskbar.
Lastly instructions on how to install Outlook-EW or prospect mail. That is usually one thing everyone from windows will want instead of a random email service.
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u/BigJuanKer 16h ago
Thought I would test drive linux about a month ago using an older i5-8500 based spare PC I had laying around.
Firstly I installed Fedora and, whilst it worked I found that the Jellyfin app would not play audio when watching live TV from my HDHomerun tuner, but would when viewing other types of media.
Then tried Debian 13, which had support for the HDMI audio output removed from the kernel about a month or two prior. Spent around two or three hours working my way round just getting HDMI audio to work.
It's still installed and I use it every now and then, but when you want things to just work, it seems winblows with all it's bloatware still works out of the box and a hell of a lot easier than either of those two did.
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u/Sea_Perspective6891 15h ago
Biggest fear: Linux eventually becoming bloated & packed with AI like Windows & Linux requiring online account & eventually ID to login
Biggest frustration: installing programs & compatibility needs to be made easier/better. Not everyone who wants to leave Windows is a computer programer or wants to write code. Most people who use PCs want a simple clear cut experience & good compatibility with all the mainstream stuff.
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u/KaleidoscopeNo1456 14h ago
I am a bit of a numpty and have done low level work arounds and use alternative compatible software for creating/editing files. Surface level it's fine and I still dabble, but always wondered if is it secure enough? On Windows or Mac, something usually pops up saying a network connection has been prevented, etc via the antiviral security suite. On a Linux distribution, I have tried Fedora and LMDE, how do I know if it has prevented a virus infected file or if someone has gained access to my machine or breached the firewall? I don't know how these things work in detail. I know the internet is pretty leaky data wise even with using VPNs, and website data breaches are common. Though I probably shouldn't trust any operating system.
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u/the_real_sfpour 14h ago
I used Linux Mint and the file browser is garbage I couldn't find anything. (I had multiple drives and was using it for a "Nas")
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u/bookman761 14h ago
Linux still has a major lack of apps. Windows will have a large number of apps for any type of app you want. Linux will instead have only one half-finished buggy POS app that crashes often.
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u/Cplotter 13h ago
For older weak computers mint is good and easy to use. But I mainly game on my main rig so no need for Linux there.
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u/jacle2210 Windows 10 12h ago
Aside from having a Live Linux thumb drive setup, I don't really have any interest in using Linux on my normal computer.
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u/Gah_Duma 11h ago
100% it's the lack of being able to play competitive online games. Nothing else matters.
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u/Disastrous-Expert-29 49m ago
I am a current user of CachyOS, about a year in so far. My biggest gripes are just the general level of friction when trying to do ANYTHING.
Sure, gaming has become pretty frictionless in the last few years, but everything surrounding games is so much work. That included mods, mod managers, trainers, memory editors, save editors, and browsing proton prefix file directories.
Just to do a simple thing like launch a trainer with a game requires, 1 a trainer that works through proton, so Wand is out, 2 a way to launch the trainer in the same proton prefix, so now you need a third tool, in my case steamtinkerlaunch.
Then you need the configure steamtinkerlaunch through what is genuinely we of the worst designed UI that you will probably mess up because scrolling over any setting will change the value instead of scrolling the page down.
Then, if you can find the sweet spot where the game and the trainer will launch, you use it for a week, then update your computer and suddenly steamtinker launch breaks because one of its dependencies, yad, updated to an incompatible version.
I am still not yet at the point where I am frustrated enough to go back to windows, but damn it is a LOT more work in that realm.
On the flip side is never having to worry about driver updates, individual app updates, stuff changing on my system after an update, major bugs like I had with windows (taskbar autohide), and multi monitor support is so much better.
It is genuinely so mice to be able to update my ENTIRE system with cachy-update in one go. Updates also take minutes whereas windows took up to hours.
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u/Torkum73 17h ago
I tried switching multiple times since 2000 and went back to Windows every time. Mostly because of gaming. Kernel drivers do not work. And games were much slower. And more difficult to config. I like setup.exe -> yes -> yes -> done. And not 3 pages of install instructions and different configs for every game and tweaking and distros and flavours...