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I’ve been using Linux primarily for 24 years and exclusively for like… 10-12. When I HAVE to use another OS (for work or something) I miss all my tools and feel powerless. It drives me nuts.
I do like that splash screen on Windows before login, where it shows me a different beautiful landscape each day.
I’m honestly surprised that nobody has said anything about MS Office, but it’s not like I expect anyone to miss the application itself, it’s just that if your work requires you to interface with it, there really is no alternative to running Windows or MacOS. Microsoft’s own Office Online versions of the apps do a worse job of maintaining DOC/PPT formatting consistency than the possible Russian spyware that is OnlyOffice, which also screws things up too often to be relied upon. LibreOffice is, let’s be honest, a total mess (with the exception of Calc, which also isn’t consistent with the current version of Excel, but can do some things that Excel no longer can do, so I appreciate it more as a complementary tool than as a replacement).
SoftMaker Office is what I’ve used on Linux for lots of years. Has served me well.
There was a lot more I missed when I switched, can’t think of anything now. I was going to joke that I miss being 19. But eh, I’m doing better now than I was then.
When I switched from Windows to Linux back in 2002, I never looked back. I missed absolutely nothing. Linux offered everything I needed and more, with unmatched freedom and flexibility. In late 2008, I bought a unibody MacBook, and while macOS wasn’t bad per se, it just didn’t feel like home. I missed Linux too much, so I wiped the MacBook and installed Debian. From that moment on, I’ve never switched again—Linux has always been home. I’m currently rocking Arch (btw) on my main desktop & Debian on my laptop…
I honestly loved some of the default Windows apps, like Notepad, Paint and believe it or not, the default file manager. I find that most file explorers on Linux can’t strike a good balance between simplicity and the amount of features.
Thankfully (or not, if you use Windows) they started enshittifying each and every one of them, so there’s nothing to miss any more.
For some reason my computer lags a lot but that might be because I have way too many tabs.
destiny 2
I miss targeted advertisements. It’s important that my OS tracks what my interests are, so that I can be served more relevant advertising.
Advertising that doesn’t know my interests doesn’t hold my interest, and having no ads means that I have no idea what I’m supposed to purchase next. It’s crazy.
I loved the constant pop-ups with offers for things I could purchase. If I don’t purchase something frequently enough I get sad so it’s nice to have an OS that cares about my well being.
Thanks for taking the downvotes for the team. I laughed anyway :)
If I have to list a single thing that most irritates me on Linux then it is easily copying files to a USB connected drive.
The progress bar passes 100% and I get notification the files were copied but they were in fact not copied yet, it still takes several more minutes until I can actually unplug the connected drive or I’ll lose the files.
Hokei, so. Usb “packets” are 12 bytes or something, and it’s not good for performance to stop the flow. The solution is, as always, to have a buffer. Problem is that some kernel geniuses decided that GIGABYTES is a good buffer size. This was all when spinning hdds were the standard and new fast usbs were comming, but still.
Oh, and for some reason the transfer bar sometimes works fine for me.
I run
udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdX#in the terminal. When it completes, it means the files have finished copying and the partition was unmounted.I’ll give that a try next time I’ll need to copy something, thanks
Games :(
At least that is something that is getting better and better. Though I do hope that if Steam OS and Proton keep pushing things at the rate we are seeing. Maybe Linux will get used enough to justify more devs to make real Linux releases of games instead of just Windows releases. Apple finally getting their stuff able to run things at similar levels of gaming PCs is also kind of helping with breaking out of Windows only code.
I’d say a Control Panel, I miss the plethora of authoritive knowledge and settings for every program, device, driver, network, user, and a dozen more things besides, all findable by browsing and not remembering dozens of commands. Of course I’d miss that either way, because Control Panel has been gutted every new version of windows since XP, but it was once nice.
The Start menu context menu, or SUPER+X, is still nice, although mostly for avoiding poor UI choices and slow menus. The fact that many useful options are guaranteed to be there on every windows machine is nice though.
And I would also say Event Viewer, despite how incredibly clunky it is to use. Having one place to check all system logs and track crashes of all kinds was quite useful.
Basically, windows at one point went out of it’s way to centralize settings and info, and that’s just not possible in Linux without a lot of setup.
As someone trapped using windows I also miss ye olde control panel, and they lob new pieces of it off with every feature update
Nexusmods.
They are working on a cross platform app now. I can click mod manager download on cyberpunk mods, and it will install them as easy as the windows version.
Currently takes a bit of tinkering to set up, but its promising.
Oooohhhh!
The ability to properly wake from sleep.
Not having to set my displayport version back to 2.1 upon every boot.
What kernel, distro, and gpu are you running?
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bazzite:stable
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Bazzite 41 (FROM Fedora Kinoite)
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Linux 6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64
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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (16) @ 5.01 GHz
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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX [Discrete]
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AMD Raphael [Integrated]
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6.31 GiB / 62.01 GiB (10%)
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447.25 GiB / 1.82 TiB (24%) - btrfs [Read-only]
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7680x2160 @ 240 Hz (as 5120x1440) in 57" [External]
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KDE Plasma 6.2.3
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KWin (Wayland)
What’s
sudo lsmod | grep amd && sudo dmesg | grep VGA
Return?
Also is KDE the standard DE for bazzite?
Full output of that command:
amd_atl 69632 1 edac_mce_amd 40960 0 kvm_amd 249856 0 kvm 1449984 1 kvm_amd gpio_amdpt 16384 0 gpio_generic 20480 1 gpio_amdpt amdgpu 20111360 70 amdxcp 12288 1 amdgpu drm_exec 12288 1 amdgpu gpu_sched 65536 1 amdgpu drm_buddy 24576 1 amdgpu i2c_algo_bit 20480 1 amdgpu drm_suballoc_helper 16384 1 amdgpu drm_display_helper 290816 1 amdgpu drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 amdgpu ttm 114688 2 amdgpu,drm_ttm_helper video 81920 3 asus_wmi,amdgpu,asus_nb_wmi [ 0.330346] pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: setting as boot VGA device [ 0.330346] pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added: decodes=io+mem,owns=none,locks=none [ 0.330346] pci 0000:0e:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added: decodes=io+mem,owns=none,locks=none [ 2.202336] ACPI: video: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) [ 3.766492] amdgpu: vga_switcheroo: detected switching method \_SB_.PCI0.GP17.VGA_.ATPX handleAnd yes, KDE is standard. If I wanted Gnome, that’s a different download entirely and is based on Fedora Silverblue.
Ok so it’s not on the OS level. Might be a wake setting in the bios. Allow wake from USB might fix it.
Power management requires coordination between vendor firmware and linux, so new kernels may require updated vendor firmware. The ACPI open standard tells linux how to discover and configure the hardware. Some vendors support acpi_osi=linux on the kernel command line, others may need system-dependent entries.
From https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/issues-with-amd-gpu/135241
That’s all I got sorry. Good luck
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