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Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss (libretechni.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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Thought I'd create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people's pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.

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[-] Sunspear@piefed.social 27 points 3 months ago

I'm using Fedora KDE, and for the first time in my life, an upgrade (42 to 43) completely borked the system, in a way that I couldn't boot to anything else other than a kernel panic.

I had to boot up a live USB, mount and chroot into the old system, and manually fix each duplicated / corrupted package. And it still caused every now and then some weird issue with dnf, so in the end I just reinstalled the entire OS.

I feel like updates "offered" via a nice and convenient gui shouldn't really do this out of nowhere - and I wasn't the only one to report this in the past half year.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I found on the 42->43 upgrade, Wine 32-bit was removed, and the upgrader errors out instead of fixing it. What I did to fix was immediately, manually (via dnf) uninstall wine*, then immediately run the upgrade again, and it fixed itself, finishing the upgrade with 64-bit Wine installed.

[-] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Sure would be nice if they caught and fixed that before pushing the update and requiring users to do it themselves.

[-] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

I ran into the same issue with errors every time I tried to update. This fix worked perfectly, thank you for taking the time to comment!

[-] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Sorry you had to go through with that.

Point-release distros like to tout stability, but they face all the same problems as rolling-release distros when upgrading between versions.

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