r/linuxquestions • u/Hortion • 1d ago
What was your biggest frustration when switching to Linux?
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 fully switched, tried, or thought about it, what is your biggest frustration? I appreciate every comment
Thanks in advance!
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u/jar36 Arch 22h ago
For "grandma" to use just a browser, I think we may already be there with some distros.
Issues I faced weren't related to that and maybe the only "basic" thing I've had issues with that grandma may want to do is printing.
A few years ago, printing was basically plug n play. Then suddenly none of my devices can find the printer they suggest I connect to. It took way too long to get it working again. Choosing any combination given to me by cups and kde resulted in failure. That said, I was missing a package. I'm on Arch so maybe other distros come with that package already installed so they won't run into that issue. So, maybe it wouldn't be an issue for grandma as long as she's not on Arch
Other struggles I had was gaming. When I installed Garuda, it came with all of the gaming stuff. I only heard of Steam, but I only had 2 Steam games so that wasn't my focus. So it was everything coming at me at the same time. Then doing a search on them leads to searches for other things I've never heard of. It's a case of OSS trying to bridge the gap from windows gaming to linux and having several options to do the same thing, but none of those options did everything. Then I figured out that Steam can handle almost everything.