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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 9 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

I had a problem with Unity games on Steam freezing the PC due to fractional scaling. In that case not even the terminal would show up. Also, if I switch away from a fullscreen application, I won't have it available to be terminated using xkill, right?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    In case you haven't tried it, you can run Steam games in native Wayland mode, and get a more stable experience. Especially with fractional scaling. There are two steps:

    1. Install a GE-Proton runner, and configure the game to use it.
    2. Set game launch options to, env DISPLAY="" PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command%
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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    If you can't see the terminal, then that's pretty bad so idk -> if everything goes unresponsive I just slap my monitor in impotent fury and reboot

    If you can see the terminal but not the window, idk if xkill would work. Then you'd need to find the process id and kill it with pkill.

    Like say you're playing age of empires 2: pgrep aoe (should return all running processes called aoe with their pids > process: aoe2 pid: 69420 ...or something like that) then: pkill 69420 > ded

    https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/pgrep.1.html

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