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For me its the nuance of things.
Like quality of life settings. Turn Bluetooth on automatically at boot. Yeah, you can do it, but not by looking at settings and turning that option on. No, you need to recognize that's a problem then search for an answer, determine which of the 2 or 3 answers you find are right, then do it. Is it a deal breaker? Absolutely not. But I don't want to "solve problems" for every thing I want to do.
My other gripes would be lack of software support. As great as some apps are, others there are no support for Linux.
This stuff unfortunately depends by the desktop environment and because there are hundreds of them, it's inconsistent.
On gnome it remembers it correctly, although there are a handful of times where the gamepad doesn't connect automatically and I have to manually do that