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Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss (discuss.online)
submitted 5 days ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100

Thought I'd create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people's pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.

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[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Things have gotten A LOT better since I started using it, but here's a list of things I hate after using Arch with KDE as my main OS for almost 7 years:

  • Not having an archive manager as good as 7-zip was on Windows. Ark is a good replacement but it supports less formats, has less options when compressing, and most importantly if you close the archive while extracting it silently fails (reported in 2019, still not fixed)
  • You can't make an account without a password (yes, I know I can configure the sudoers file and polkit to skip password prompts, but that's not user friendly). For the average user, having to type the password after login is incredibly annoying, I would like to have something like the UAC prompt in Windows
  • Wayland: it was made mainstream waaaay too early, causing a lot of issues with both Qt and GTK applications, some of which persist to this day, especially with fractional scaling and HDR
  • Developers seem to think that I enjoy using the terminal: I don't, I hate it. Why isn't there a GUI for pacman supports the AUR and doesn't suck?
  • Random broken commits being pushed to stable. I'm talking about "how the f did you not notice this?" kind of bugs, like how I had to rename files twice in Dolphin before it would actually rename them. It was fixed quickly but how did this get into stable in the first place?
  • Flatpak having its old ass version of mesa in the runtime, causing all sorts of issues if you have a newly released GPU. I stopped using it because of this
[–] mech@feddit.org 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Running Arch when you hate the terminal and want stability is quite the mood.

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 2 points 4 days ago

What can I say, I'm a sucker for punishment 😂

I like having the latest (or at least recent) hardware so having the latest kernel and mesa is a must.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Developers don't think you enjoy using the terminal. It's just the option that works with the most systems with the least explanation. They can just give you a command to copy/paste instead of a tutorial on what buttons to click, assuming you even have that.

There are GUIs for package managers. I haven't used one, because I feel like there's no need, but they do exist. I don't know if they support the AUR and pacman though. That probably exists, but you'll have to look it up.

[–] ashx64@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

7-zip does have a linux CLI, which works well.

The most basic command you need to use is 7zz x archive-name to extract an archive. Building a GUI around it doesn't seem like it would be too much trouble honestly, wonder if anyone has done that.