ezra 
i feel like everyone who uses linux has like 4 or 5 issues they just live with and don't care enough to try to fix. and no two people have any issues in common.
the one person who blobfoxsignno reacted this be like
There are no bugs on GNU/Linux.
this post was not about windows. but sure. let's include windows in the picture.
if there's an issue on windows for something it claims to support, it's either borked on just about everyone's windows machine and gets patched pretty quick, or it's because windows randomly ate part of itself, which it has a habit of doing for whatever reason. dism sfc and on rare occasion a registry cleaner can usually take care of that. the user generally does not get blamed for this.
if there's an issue on linux for something it claims to support, most of the time it's due to a misconfiguration the user never even knew they had to take care of. or a bug with a workaround. if these are documented they're buried in a wiki somewhere, forum comments, git issues or a reddit thread, often deleted. generally the user gets blamed for not finding this.
Zind@ezra I don't mean to be all "erm, my distro fixes this" but I think that the ostree/bootc distros like bazzite have managed to take a large step in the right direction. Effectively your entire "state" is either in your home folder or /etc and changes to etc are tracked and diff-able with the base image. I think that with some more ux-friendly utilities like a factory reset, almost all of the ux gap could be closed.
Shrimp@ezra when I first installed linux mint about a year ago, i experienced this. firefox was stuttering like crazy. i scoured the forums, i scoured reddit, I asked... why is it lagging?? "did you enable video acceleration" "did you enable graphics acceleration"... nothing fixed it. flatpak, native deb version, nothing worked.
then I installed endeavourOS. That fixed it. i use fedora now, firefox still works fine there. to this day, i still have zero clue why firefox specifically was so bad on mint.
and whenever someone recommends mint to a newcomer, I always roll my eyes because trying to fix that issue was 100x more complicated than the other options.
Amber 
@ezra my current issue is that my desktop works too well so im scared it's gonna explode and i keep on adding complexity to it so that i cause it to explode and i can complain
@ezra i will say out of all the gentoo installs i have had this has got to be the tamest, most error-free one yet. even including the 5+ hours of debugging dracut. all of my $die ebuilds have been due to things like chrome expecting a minimum of 64gb of memory or the openjdks refusing to compile with ccache enabled. very easy fixes.
shroomfie 
Alexia 
ava (eepy kitty)@ezra i think my only issue with my pc right now is that kde’s tiling manager doesn’t remember my custom zones on restart, so basically a non-issue
now my windows install on the other hand…
now my windows install on the other hand…
Maypop the Dragonstartx every time.
Amber 
(aka kemona_halftau)@ezra i almost guarantee not a single being in this universe has ever encountered any combination of at least 2 of the issues i faced when i was on gentoo 
Comfortably Numb@ezra I must be an edge case, I don't seem to have any issues.
John Maxwell@ezra Yeah. And then there's the computer stuff too.
Patrick Lam 
@ezra just fixed one!
Andrew Zonenberg@ezra my most recent one is a single Debian box that i configured just like all of my others.
But for whatever reason it doesn't spawn a window manager automatically when you log in. I have to open a terminal and manually "(xfwm4 --replace &)" and then I'm good to go until next time I log out.
@ezra meanwhile my work laptop spawns two screen locker instances or something like that. Every time i log in i enter my password and it takes me back to the login screen, then the second unlock works.
That's annoying enough I want to actually spend some time chasing it.
Sorro@ezra on desktop (debian 12), sometimes the screen locker freezes after waking up from sleep, so i have to ctrl-alt-F5, kill kscreenlock with htop, ctrl-alt-f6, kscreenlock restarts by itself and now it works again
on laptop (debian 13), audio sometimes making weird and uncomfortable noises when playing a windows game through proton
the screen lock problem has happened a few times and requires so little steps to fix that i almost got muscle memory for it, and the audio problems happen rarely, like, for 3 seconds every 4 hours of gameplay, so i dont really care that much about neither 
Victoria🏳️⚧️@ezra GNOME is treating me nice nowadays, i dont really have anything to complain about. Well except Fedora and their flamed SELinux configuration, but oh well.
Niki
insane 