Installing Ubuntu was a pain. First attempt created a black screen, second was the same. Had to dig up several tutorials which involved tinkering with command line. Turns out some Nvidia drivers problem. Another challenge is a limiting nature of GNOME desktop environment. Never got used to popups moving literally an entire parent window stack with itself (???).
getting steam/VR up and running... each kernel upgrade. Got it in first place working with: Option "AllowHMD" "yes" Serval Updates later, games says 'no vr device'... new driver, no more AllowHMD..
snap packages: firefox runs in a container... kerberos ticket not found... Lxd keeps updating, lxd.sock service could not be executed, os wasn't upgraded...
snap is a nice idea, but not thought through to the end.
I think the biggest problem is to change the own workflows for the system as well as for many programs. Second thing is to have a very new (maybe special) hardware and Linux doesn't know the drivers yet. Third problem is administration in a company environment: as long as MS AD/AAD is set, it's hard to fight for Linux usage there.
I once had to bring my whole desktop to university for a project because the assembly code I had written would only run on #Linux and they didn't have it installed
Was literally just helping my friend switch last night and the desktop screen and app launcher were just replaced with a massive error screen. Was researching for like 20 minutes on how to fix and in the end just updating everything using dnf that fixed it lol
I switched in January and have had alot of challenges, but nothing impossible. Tried to install Linux Mint on my HP laptop and it couldn't even start after the installation. Tried Fedora Cinnamon instead and since then no (big) problems. On my small, old, slow, Lenovo miix, (Fedora xfce) almost everything had to be tweaked after installation. The screen was rotated in the wrong direction, standby didn't work and so on. I've learned a lot and I've never been happier with my computers.
Well, back then, wifi drivers were a lot more finicky. Sometimes it was a several hour long endeavour to get the wifi drivers working on some new piece of hardware.
Fortunately, things have gotten better since then and a newer kernel usually fixes it, but USB wifi dongles still sometimes require building a custom driver. Since then though, documentation has gotten better, but it could just be that I'm more comfortable now I'm a dev myself.
It was along time ago... Late 90s... I really didn't run into any serious problems. There was some sound hardware I couldn't get to work... but as long as I paid attention to the "known working hardware" lists when setting up new machines, or buying new boards... it all pretty-much worked. To this day I have not had any success setting up advanced audio hardware or any kind of DAW on Linux, but other than that... it's been great.
windows стабильный, если удалить программу вручную это никак повлияет на остальные программы в системе, отключение света не повредит систему, в общем отказоустойчивая система чем Linux. В Linux мног... show more
windows стабильный, если удалить программу вручную это никак повлияет на остальные программы в системе, отключение света не повредит систему, в общем отказоустойчивая система чем Linux. В Linux много способов установить программу, если установить вручную это потом никак не удалить полностью из системы, чтобы при установке новой версии не было проблем. И пр. "особенности" Linux
Biggest issue I had when I switched to Linux about 12 years ago, were WIFi drivers and crashes after updates. I don't remember the distro I started with, just that it was Ubuntu based, but I quickly switched to Arch based distro - Manjaro, slow, bloated and crashed literally every 2 days! Now I am using Garuda with KDE, but I must admit I am playing around with QTile and if we ever have WM with Wayland compositor based on it, I am definitely switching.
a lot of cool foss programs that don't have graphical interface and works only from command line + some interface and settings (such sending shortcuts to desktop)
My biggest problem has mostly just been gaming. WINE (or especially Wine-GE and Proton) has gotten better than it used to be, but it's still a hot mess. Especially trying to get prerequisites installed for some stuff (winetricks is such a PITA. It fusses at you over and over and a lot of functions fail to download or extract then just cancel the entire operation. I wish it were legal to just distribute pre-configured prefixes.) A few games still fail to work right or at all.
WOW so many but thanks to AI now I can get quicker solutions not having to read so long like it was before AI chatbots. The first obstacle is how not to ruin the boot and loose Windows along with all the information stored in its partitions. It was a big blocker for me who retained from installing linux.
Michal 🇨🇿
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Laiv Salocin
in reply to It's FOSS • • •dev.php
in reply to It's FOSS • • •getting steam/VR up and running... each kernel upgrade. Got it in first place working with:
Option "AllowHMD" "yes"
Serval Updates later, games says 'no vr device'... new driver, no more AllowHMD..
snap packages:
firefox runs in a container... kerberos ticket not found...
Lxd keeps updating, lxd.sock service could not be executed, os wasn't upgraded...
snap is a nice idea, but not thought through to the end.
Café-Junkie
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Second thing is to have a very new (maybe special) hardware and Linux doesn't know the drivers yet.
Third problem is administration in a company environment: as long as MS AD/AAD is set, it's hard to fight for Linux usage there.
Germán Enríquez
in reply to It's FOSS • • •It's FOSS
in reply to Germán Enríquez • • •El Pirrata
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Having to deal with the intense Linux fandom. Furthermore: dealing with the several extra intense distro fans.
Now that I think of it... that never ended 🤔
loowiz
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Unknown parent • • •LeonLucas
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Well, back then, wifi drivers were a lot more finicky. Sometimes it was a several hour long endeavour to get the wifi drivers working on some new piece of hardware.
Fortunately, things have gotten better since then and a newer kernel usually fixes it, but USB wifi dongles still sometimes require building a custom driver. Since then though, documentation has gotten better, but it could just be that I'm more comfortable now I'm a dev myself.
Cenbe
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •When I was switching to Linux I gave myself the challenge to "do everything I do in Windows but in Linux".
Took a while (this was early-mid 2000s) but I can say that just about everything (or an equivalent) I have achieved (and more) since then.
Like I was programming in ASP and ASP.NET at work, but did PHP on LAMP at home.
My needs, though, changed like my son got me into games that don't run well enough in Linux (on this hardware).
Back To Analog
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •The first obstacle is how not to ruin the boot and loose Windows along with all the information stored in its partitions. It was a big blocker for me who retained from installing linux.