Things currently stopping "YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP"
These but to a lesser degree
Music production software RIP. Not to mention the Lovecraftian horrors of the Linux audio stack. It’s gotten so much better with REAPER and there are many great VSTs but there’s still a long way to go.
It's so frustrating that I can't run office software. But why is adobe a problem?
Adobe has a huge presence in the creative industry. Lots of professionals (read majority) can't use a FOSS graphics suite because Adobe is an industry standard. And Adobe cannot run on anything except Windows because (I forgot the exact article) certain portions of Adobe are highly entangled with Windows, and porting it to Linux makes no financial sense.
Before others talk about the alternatives, Adobe still has huge inertia. It will be years before they are dethroned, assuming they continue to fuckup.
Good summary.
I’ve been working a while and think the latter things combined with the unfamiliarity of MDM/IT management tools in Linux has stopped much wider adoption.
So many industries just MUST run a few key apps that were designed and battle tested in windows long ago, as in wet lab science, manufacturing, and medicine to name a few I’ve seen.
Also stability (sorry but it’s hard to beat a MacBook).
I feel like most industries didn't run Mac books as standard.
am still using my GTX 1650 till it breaks
I never understood GPU naming schemes but I'm still rocking my 1050TI lol
Just put Fedora on my desktop with an RTX 5060 a couple weeks ago. The Nvidia drivers were easy to install but they borked a bit later and it took me an hour or two to fix unfortunately. And sleep doesn't work at all.
Still, the Nvidia driver issues are secondary to the WiFi issues that I've spent so many hours trying to get work, and every time I think it works for good, it breaks again. I'm buying a dongle with a Mediatek MT7601U and hopefully this fixes the WiFi issues for good.
My solution was to pick a distro that came with Nvidia drivers set up already (pop os) and have had zero problems with it.
PopOS today is a beta version. Apps sometimes crash. They just switched over to a brand new desktop environment and although it used to be a good recommendation for first time users that's not the case at present. Once they polish the new cosmic DE fix all the bugs, it would be back to its former glory IMO.
I had it before the new DE and my PC didn't switch over to it. I agree it's a bit rough right now and might switch to cachy or something when I have time to fool with it.
For me, on CachyOS, there does appear to be some fork of the drivers that the OS maintainers have kept up; I haven't really had any complaints. In my case I don't use ultrawide monitors or any unusual features, but maybe others with specific use cases would struggle more.
Me too, Bazzite. That doesn't solve that it runs 15-25% slower than windows in heavy games. Thank god I play mostly indie games.
That doesn't improve the quality of the drivers though... But you seem to not have had issues yet... Are you on wayland though?
There's always a new issue. One time I can't resume of suspending (I think this is still an issue...). Then shutting off a monitor leads to a crash of the driver-stack. I could go on. Just the fact that Nvidia took so long to support GBM properly is a tragedy.
To be fair the windows driver situation isn't much better. last time I started windows on a computer I cared about, it tried to find a new driver for my mouse for some reason and in the process deleted all the profiles I had configured on the mouse
That is so ridiculously accurate. And sad. And infuriating. And then funny again because I am reuglarly going mad with those fucking drivers since I have to work with them on Linux professionally. I hate it. It is funny and tragic. Just like life.
I'm on endeavouros (arch) with an rtx 3060 and haven't had any issues whatsoever in a few years, are people having more nvidia problems lately or something?
I had a similar setup (Endeavour OS + 3080). While most daily tasks worked fine I had some large annoyances.
I am sure I missed some more minor ones, but there were the main reasons I got an AMD card
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