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I have to agree with the post that explains areas of improvement. I have been an ArchLinux/Gnome user for 1.5 years on my home laptop but I am pondering switch
by bengalister 6y ago
I have to agree with the post that explains areas of improvement.
I have been an ArchLinux/Gnome user for 1.5 years on my home laptop but I am pondering switching back to Windows since WSL2 support. I am currently writing this message from Windows10 partition. Windows10 has also its painpoints like Telemetry, default apps that I don't want, not following Unix philosophy (configuration with simple text files) and ability to customize but it is improving also.
For me the remaining painpoints for Linux on the desktop even if it improved a lot over the years are:
* bluetooth/pulseaudio not snappy and reliable. Sometimes my bluetooth headset connects instantly, sometimes it takes 30s to 1mn, sometimes it never connects automatically and I have to do it manually. I did not have that issue on Mac OS X/W10. Also I have yet not figured out why an audio profile is added with gnome bluetooth but not when I use sway as desktop environment
* resume from suspend reliably. Sometimes my network connectivity is broken after resume and cannot be recovered easily. I need to reboot.
* Graphic drivers support even if not running Nvidia simplifies it a little bit. For Intel IGpu, it is ok but it seems still less performant than on Windows/Mac
* lack of full featured drivers and software for some hardware especially for printers, scanners or fingerprint readers, the available ones lack proprietary features but it is obviously not Linux's fault.
* lack of default video acceleration for browsers. Even if it is now possible with Firefox on Wayland with some configuration and Chromium but with community managed VAAPI support
* Multiple screen and especially switching from Hidpi and low dpi. It is a really mess here due to different GUI toolkits being used and lack of standard. GTK has its own way, you can do with X or Wayland fractional (but blurry) scaling too. For instance what I do now on Gnome wayland is not doing any fractional (blurry) scaling but text scaling of 1.22 by default and using systemd udev revert to 1.0 when I plug my external display...
as for Gnome I like it, I find it to be a MacOS GUI clone with a lack of customization that can be circumvented with extensions except for performance (still laggy even if it improved also a lot).
- arronax 6y ago> bluetooth/pulseaudio not snappy and reliable Without patching of pulseaudio, microphone on a bluetooth headset doesn't work anyway. I'd take not snappy but working any day, really. Maybe in Pulseaudio 14 this will get resolved, there are a couple of proposals/drafts already.