cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100

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.

  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de
    10·
    8 days ago

    Been using it for a couple years, my main ones currently are:

    • VR. SteamVR is a broken mess, Monado is pretty much functional, but I haven’t switched yet. Mesa or the kernel sometimes forget about VR and break it in an update.
    • QT5 to QT6 transition for my favorite Matrix client, Nheko. Scrolling is a pain, and the clipboard randomly stops working.
    • Wayland freedom and featureset is nowhere close to X11. I can’t choose a window manager without locking myself in to a specific featureset on my display server. Stuff like global hotkeys isn’t supported in most applications. I’m still on the godawful GNOME desktop portals, which is most annoying for file picking. I have no HDR support because my window manager isn’t from KDE or GNOME.
    • GTK4 apps looking like shit (there are patches luckily), I try to avoid them just because of libadwaita and GNOME’s awful design.

    On the note of Wayland, I have switched, and for good reason. Besides unimplemented features, things “just work” a lot better than X11. Still wish I could have effectively bspwm window management with kwin featureset though. (Plugins for tiling are not the same experience)

    • lastweakness@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 days ago

      GTK4 apps and libadwaita apps are different though. You can theme both as well.

      Regarding Wayland, I wonder why features still vary so wildly, even with projects like wlroots. Do WMs just not care enough?

      Scrolling in Qt apps in general isn’t great. Still no inertial scrolling for example.