Oh sure, all the time.

A computer running public auditable software refined by some of history's top computer scientists...is still just a computer.

We taught spicy electrified rocks how to help us fill out tax forms.

It's going to fall short every so often.

The moments I have been disappointed by Linux were the moments I learned most about hardware and software.

Linux made me switch the WiFi card of my computer, which is something I’ve never done before and would have deemed “impossible”.

Linux is like a teacher that sometimes slaps you on the hands, but who is always helping you to expand your knowledge.

I'm annoyed at modern Gnome's hostility towards user customisability. Their refusal to support server side decorations has trickled down to Cinnamon's Wayland compositor and it looks like it's going to be a barrier in Wayland Cinnamon.

Gestures vaguely at Ubuntu.......

I am disappointed at professional application support, but not with Linux specifically. In my professional life I have needed to use products like Visio, Adobe Suite, Autodesk software, and others.

I am often forced to use Windows for my work computer because of these limitations, and while I realize its not the fault of Linux, the lack of install base demanding professional applications run on Linux is a community issue. While I always prefer FOSS over PROP software, sometimes I really do need to run PROP software on linux, and that means convincing enough people to demand that support from the developer.

Yes because Linux encourages you to make it your OS by customizing it, but it’s not easy as it should to create a backup of all that work so that you can easily deploy it on another computer.

I know that Clonezilla works in some situations or that NixOS coulb be a solution, but it’s not should be easier.

Before Proton, I wasn't able to consider Linux as a viable solution for home computing at all. I could set up and manage a pihole, and salvage an old laptop to use for word processing and email, but couldn't run anything my family or non-techie friends were familiar with.

Sure Wine was a thing, but I think for most casual users it wasn't worth the hassle.

My first attempt with Ubuntu 15ish years ago was horrible; almost nothing worked, GPU support was trash, it was just an all around miserable experience.

With proton, stuff just works. It's like a whole new ecosystem now.

Edit: not the kernel or the GNU utilities themselves, but rather some people on the various affiliated forums. While most people have been kind and helpful, a handful of bad apples don't know how to behave. They are hostile to the point where one could easily lose the will to have anything to do with Linux.

I have only ever been positively surprised. Just a few of all the good habits that Linux has made me adopt:

1. RTFM
2. Reading logs
3. Keeping/reusing old hardware

All the time but then I remember it's my fault because it's open source and I am not fixing it either.

with windows i can just blame m$, but on linux it's my fault

During the early days of Pulse Audio. Sound sometimes would stop working for inexplicable reasons.

Yes, the packaging mess that Atomic distros cause.

I want a couple of functional things:

• To be able to safely upgrade my system silently, without interruptions, and rollback of necessary
• To know my system is not drifting away from upstream defaults and to restore it to a “factory” state
• To sandbox applications

I’d like to be able to do all that efficiently and cleanly too. Atomic systems generally fulfill those first two while traditional distros struggle, which is why I stick to Atomic distros.

But whereas you can use a single package manager on Arch and get everything (albeit without easy sandboxing), Atomics keep adding more and more. Here’s your rpm-ostree, flatpak, toolbox, homebrew, sysexts, etc.

I find sysexts particularly insulting because they regress so much on traditional packages for so little upside. Doesn’t even have dependency management.

I would wish we would stop creating so many package managers and just focus on improving existing ones.

In a more ideal world we would have something like

• Distro based on Freedesktop runtimes
• Flatpak that officially supports both GUI applications, CLI applications, and even daemons/services
• Flatpak would also be able to reuse the Freedesktop runtimes of the host system

For years...every time I needed to configure a printer. Sometimes when I needed to find drivers for a wifi card. These days...it just works.

The plasma drawing tablet calibration tool does the opposite of what its supposed to and it only has one job.

More the people behind it than the distro, but CachyOS. Aside from the performance improvements only being marginal, I was happy with the convenience after a decade of using Vanilla Arch. It was the first distro ever to tempt me away in that decade. I was really, really disappointed by the response to the age verification bs. The mods did a terrible job with discussion on the forums and the devs never made a formal response. The upside is I learned more about Systemd and now happily using Artix. So at least some good came out of my disappointment.

In the old days, lots, mostly around hardware support and until very recently the ability to run most games.

Nowadays, I’m mostly disappointed with the desktop environments lacking features that BeOS had in 1997. This is honestly a kernel and filesystem issue since most of those features require that the kernel/filesystem fully support indexed, extensible attribute queries. xattrs aren’t nearly sufficient. The remainder are framework/UI threading model limitations, which aren’t really kernel related.

Nope, okay I fiddle more with complex scenarios than ever before with windows. But I never lost files/progress than I lost with windows bluescreens. And since everything is open source and documented. There is always a way to find a solution, even if its a reddit post 12 years ago.

It happens. But when I boot into Windows those disappointments ease up.

Not with Linux per si but surely I have with the LKML and Linux Foundation guys. With Linus and Greg. RH, Canonical, Gnome. And so on...

Yes, I installed Fedora and everything was working OOTB. Nothing to tinker with, no issue with sound, WiFi, Bluetooth or external screens. Then I moved this SSD to a new AMD laptop and it worked perfectly. It even switched from Intel to AMD utils by itself.

So disappointing.

Mostly before proton and wine got really good tbh. I also have a ton of the old free Ubuntu CDs and we can see where that went 😔

I'm also pretty disappointed with the security standards on Linux, flatpak next pls save us

While Linux is imperfect perfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward complicated.

/s

Not so much in Linux as in tools I want on Linux being Windows only (or X11).

1. Microsoft's Terminal App is my favourite console application, there are a ton of other applications to use but nothing hits just right in the way their application does.
2. GOG Galaxy. There is Heroic which is an excellent application the integrates really well with GOG but (the last time I used it) cloud sync was Windows only, so you had to run proton/wine to get cloud sync support even though the game had native Linux support. In the end, I just wish GOG could if not port their client to Linux, at least help Heroic Launcher make cloud sync work with Linux.
3. xdotool - I used it to automate hiding/showing my terminal window. I tried ydotool but could not get it to work.

I was a bit disappointed with desktop Linux during the late 90s and early 00s because many applications within the typical ecosystem weren't great or mature yet (I still shudder when thinking about the amount of time I spent trying to get audio to work nicely across OSS, alsa, artsd, esound, ... this was before pulseaudio or pipewire, obviously), and then I temporarily switched back to Windows as a primary OS just because of gaming compatibility. But since the mid-10s or so, Linux grew to become very capable for at least casual gaming as well. So there was no need for Windows anymore and I just wiped it off of every device, leaving Linux as the only OS. This was also during a time where Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and later 11 showed up and this really showed to me that Windows was doomed to die a long-winded death. The last decent version of Windows was 7.

After a recent update, I started getting prompts for using a having controller. I know there's a way to fix, it probably has to do with UDEF rules or something, but I just can't quite care enough to figure it out.

On the other hand, I know there's a fix. There's always a fix.

And nothing is ever added just to fuck with me. So, yes, but more on the level of "eh 🤷‍♂️"

It's difficult to be disappointed with something that is free.

Actually, one shouldn't be disappointed with things. Only people can disappoint you.

I was disappointed in the Debian crew when they standardized on systemd when it clearly wasn't ready yet.

And I was disappointed in the people running some distros that made Wayland the standard when it clearly wasn't ready yet (a few apps I rely on don't support it or run poorly on Wayland even now).

Other than that, free software, free choice, and a lot of learning possibilities. You just have to adapt your expectations. Change hardware, change software, change distros, and learn.

xdg-desktop-portal is the only thing that really gave me anger

I've been using it professionally and personally for 30 odd years and sure there have been some issues from time to time but honestly they pale in comparison to the number of times it has blown me away with it's awesomeness. :)

For me there are little quirks, but they pale in comparison to how broken Windows is

Linux isn't perfect, nothing is. But there's a thing people do after they spent years on Windows, they come to Linux and expect it to be absolutely perfect, and they're let down by the slightest inconveniences

Even though they spent years with literal spyware, they hold Linux to an insane high standard that no OS will ever live up to

The final straw for me was Windows uploading my files to OneDrive even though I never signed up to it, I kept dismissing that pop-up, until one day it just started uploading a folder

And they have the audacity to send me an email a year later showing me my "memories" from stuff "I uploaded" to OneDrive

No, I've never been disappointed.

Yes, when I first tried it out in 2005 I was kind of disappointed. Mostly because back then nothing worked as I expected. Since 2018 I'm running Linux full time and since then I haven't been disappointed a single time.

Noob take.