We love to praise linux constantly and tell everyone to change to it (they should) but what are your biggest annoyances ?

Mine would be, installing software (made even more complex by flatpaks being added, among the 5 other ways there already were to install software) and probably wifi power management issues.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I mean I wish games were just natively developed for it and besides that I have complaints about my distro. As much as I like it I wish it used kde instead of gnome as its supposed to emulate the windows look and feel and there are to many things missing with window management in gnome. I would also like appimage to keep settings in the image by default.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      That’s not a Linux thing, that’s just developers choosing the wider audience available. With Proton extensions, they have no reason to not put in the minor amount of work to build a simple compatibility layers though.

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Yeah I was trying to say I can’t think of specific linux things just things around linux. So the games and my distro and one project. Its hard to think of a complaint for the larger entity.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
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      8 days ago

      You can probably switch to KDE without changing distros. Although, if you never done it before I recommend a full backup of anything you don’t want to lose. That way if you endup nuking your system somehow you can just do a reinstall, possibly to a distros that does come with KDE.

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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        8 days ago

        I doubt it would nuke the system and I have thought about just adding it but the thing is the distro for me is all about one and done. Yeah I have added a few things to it but I would really like them to get more serious about the interface. The reason they don’t is im sure because it uses ubuntu lts as a base and while they add things to it I think they are not looking to change it all that much. Its just a laziness chain.

        • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          8 days ago

          For Ubuntu you just run sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop. Presumably it’s the same for the derivative you’re using.

          After that gnome will still be there, and you just toggle between the two at login.

          • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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            8 days ago

            yes i have used kdm and gdm in the past on systems. Im aware I could install it but I simply do not want to mess with my system more than necessary given its a minor concern. Its the same reason I use a distro that is out of box and based on lte ubuntu such that its behind it. I use it because I am up and running and going right after installation without making any changes much like windows which I replaced (actually better because of all the software it includes by default). Granted I made a few and even added compizconfig to get a bit of what I wanted which made me realize I should just add kde but again 100% don’t want to deal with any issues it might bring up. most things I have added are 100% not going to cause and issue like nettools, imagemagik, and screensavers. compizconfig was a bit of a risk and im not sure if I would have done it but I was pretty frustrated atm. Maybe if I get frustrated enough again I will pull the trigger on kde.

    • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Which distro? Chances are you can install KDE on it and then select the Plasma session next time you log in.

      On Debian-based systems, the package you would want to install is probably task-kde-desktop. More info here: https://wiki.debian.org/KDE