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.
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.
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
yeah i aware I can install kde.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.