Linux

Drivers for the Tobii eye tracker do not officially exist.

Just want to turn my laptop on and not have to wonder if everything will work.

Not have to perpetually debug small issues like “why is there no sound? Oh it’s playing out of a different audio device”

Not have to worry about installing software and where it comes from, and in which format.

I just want shit to work, day in, day out. And I’m fully aware that I’d probably have these issues, plus others, with osx or windows.

Some games don't run (runs badly) on Linux.

I have to work on a windows computer so I'm regularly reminded of the horrors that is W11.

Video editing softwares definetely, kdenlive is nothing compared to stuff like sony vegas.

I am dualbooting but booting to windows fucks up my Bluetooth but I wanna boot to windows to play cyberpunk (I get almost half the fps on linux for that game spesifically), to play modded skyrim and fallout and last but not least run my ai chatbot for text adventures through koboldcpp (too difficult to build from scratch on linux) and oh fortnite, oh also roblox because I somehow fucked up grapejuice on linux and it crashes, if someone would.like to help me troubleshoot that hit me up. Other than that linux is awesome tho. Recently got.my openmw mods working. It is a treat.

Minor compatibilities aside, Nothing that Windows itself has to offer, maybe some wallpapers I can just get online anyways lol

I'm having weird issues with my Wifi where it will just suddenly stop working (Plasma will show "no available connections") and I have to hard reset the machine because Linux won't shut down otherwise. It's not a hardware issue since it doesn't happen on Windows.

@ani honestly temple os just does what I need my computer to do nothing else can come close to it. I have tryed everything.

Game Maker is still only in beta for Linux. They warn against working on serious projects on it because it can just randomly break them.

Sometimes not feeling like being part of the online friend group. But I won't switch to Windows, it's just too bad.

I tried to daily Linux on my laptop but gave up after about 6 months. The two major issues for me were the speakers amp and the fingerprint reader not being supported. The speakers wasn't that big of a problem because audio still worked so I could use headphones or Bluetooth. The fingerprint reader not working grew to be a major annoyance though, it's so much more convenient to use than typing out a password.

Compatibility, though it's usually forced, like the Xbox controller with a drm chip that you need a workaround for

I only play two games and cant for the life of me get them to run properly on linux, and i only start the computer when i want to play so windows it is.

Bro, i upgraded to 64 bit.

https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS

There occasional hiccups with Linux that are sometimes by design, like Flatpaks not having access to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. This makes some things need minor workarounds where they wouldn't otherwise, because there aren't enough people on Linux to make these workarounds the norm. I don't really mind, but it is nice not having to do anything like that on macOS (although there are other issues there, like not having access to /usr/bin in the first place :P)

At the end of the day, though, the development workarounds necessary on Windows are absolutely insane. Even as well documented as they are, I am very glad I don't need to touch Windows ever again because they still suck.

Brain damage

Ever since I tried windows 11 on a laptop given to me I've been using Linux exclusively. It's been about a year now and I thought I would have issues with games, but every game I actually play runs just fine, and usually better than on Windows.

I don't see myself going back at all. Even for my college classes for windows exclusive software (just requirements for degree) I use the provided cloud vm from the school. Every time I go into the VM it just reminds me more how I don't want to go back to Windows.

At least on pretty much all distros, you can customize your desktop however you want. Can't even move the taskbar anymore on Windows 11.

Edit - this addition:

I've even built my latest PC with the express goal of never running Windows and I'm extremely happy with it.