2022 and 2023 I made multiple decent attempts to go Linux and I’ve finally ragequit back to Windows where things finally just work. Currently using WSL for my Linux needs.
So many frustrating hours.
- Unresolvable sound issues
- Multi monitor issues
- Size scaling issues
- Couldn’t get my games working even for Gold rated proton games
- Don’t think I ever got nvidia drivers working correctly
- Really struggled on some distros to find the correct packages for some things because they were named differently?
- Couldn’t find how to set a desktop background that filled my entire screen in Gnome. It kept repeating to fill the screen instead of just “zooming”
- Got 100% CPU usage in KDE just doing nothing
- Didn’t even want to start figuring how to run my Windows-only apps because by that time I was a bundle of stress and just wanted to use my pc without fighting it every step
Conclusion for me: Windows is best DE, so use Windows+WSL
I’m a bit sad about it because I’m getting more and more frustrated with Windows 11 direction. It seems each update brings a new configuration or “feature” that makes things more difficult for me.
I do feel I am being pushed out of Windows.
For about the last 10 years I try going Linux roughly every 3 years. So I’ll give it another shot in a couple of years.
I fully understand for some people it just works. But it is not yet my personal Year Of Linux Desktop
Thanks for your reply.
I’ve heard many people mentioning EndevourOS and I think that’s based on Arch?
EndevourOS was top of my list to try next time I’m willing to give Linux another shot.
The most interesting distro I tried was MicroOS (opensuse immutable). I really liked the immutable concept, keeping the base OS clean and mess around inside containers. Very cool