5 Things Linux Could Do Better (2024)

If DaVinci Resolve just shipped a flatpak it would be so much easier.

We also NEED A BETTER BLUETOOTH, it's really tiring not being able to use something because the bt connection is dogwater

Linux is ALMOST perfect. For me. Very few issues. Especially compared to the certain other OS that is generally shoved down our throats.

The audio problem also exists in Windows when you have multiple inputs and outputs. At my company we using a lot Teams and even Skype, and every time is someone hawing problem with microphone or headset which is not working. From about 20 computers in my group which is the same model and same age it was one that took several weeks to fix because it always switched to Line in on the back for audio input.

If you are open to disabling the audio on the webcam, you can do that by disabling the ALSA device via a custom udev rule or WirePlumber config file. That way, PipeWire can never use the device since it cannot see it.

Makes sense; people have computers with different OSs for specific uses, getting things done efficiently.

Audio with Bluetooth is definitely need of improvement. I discovered a new bug/frustration that when I'm using me Bluetooth 1More S50 earbuds and pair the DualSense controller. The audio goes from fine to every couple of seconds, it fades in and out of both earbud individually. So the audio gets incredibly inconsistent when I have the Dualsense controller paired.. much sad.

Kdenlive is the one piece of Linux software that drove me NUTS. I had the same issues where it would work, and then break. At this point it's just freezing for me and I have given up on it totally. Resolve NEVER seems to work either. I switched to OpenShot and have had much better luck. But, for me anyway, my editing needs are pretty simple.

Linux has its flaws yes linux can do better its only as good as the people who manage their packages. Linux is a better alternative than to having your privacy taken away like window's

Definitely agree with points 1, 2, 4 and 5. I only somewhat agree with point 3, but I think Dolphin is a pretty good file manager and it does have tabs and works fairly well. Regarding point one, I've not heard from anyone else that really uses virtual desktops the way I do. Since I use KDE and can change any shortcut I've got shortcuts setup to move things to specific desktops and to navigate instantly myself, as well as the ability to tab through them forwards and backwards. I use 12 virtual desktops and I keep things open for weeks, if not months. I've got a media player open on desktop 12 permanently. I've even made sure it's the only program which listens for the media keys. I've done things that way for 25-ish years, as long as I've been using KDE. Also, regarding point 5, I think a good video editor is a key piece of software that we need if we hope to attract more users. Whether anyone necessarily cares for Linux to have more users, I think it could improve things because it could bring more funding for development.

Informative take on Linux. Thank you. Just one remark, instead of buying a Windows Box straight away, you could have tried a different Linux distro with the Video editing SW that you couldn't get to run so far, as it seems (you said as much) it is working ok on Rocky-Linux.

I have what seems like a trivial audio setup, just digital audio out via some DP/HDMI ports. The names of the monitors is stable and unique (DP-1 etc.), why in tarnation can't pipewire just use those names instead of randoming which output is named what? We may never know, because it usually seems to but the sometimes decides DP-1 should be "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output 3". Also, all it needs to do it resample and mux audio, then send it out as a digital signal. It fails at that on a daily basis which gets worse with longer uptime, so I end up rebooting up to several times per day because just restarting the user service isn't enough.

maybe it would be interesting to make a poll to see how many people actually have more than one maximized window shown often enough that they would consider more or less complicated window management to be important. It could be that clicking on the panel to switch between the apps (or pressing super+numbers) is all it takes to do all that 95% of people need and it's a good enough default. Opening a text editor and a web browser side by side sometimes is the only case for this I personally have and it's not worth configuring anything over it, nor am I really interested in random terminal windows I temporarily open being tiled. I still assign all of my apps to workspaces even on plasma but this may just be that I got used to it too much on gnome, I sometimes open overview and I can't stand to have more than a few windows per workspace, and they're grouped semantically, like a workspace for messaging apps for instance. But realistically when I'm usually switching between a messenger and a text editor or browser, I'm not really using workspaces

What's your issue with pcman fm?

Audio on Linux just sucks.... :( Are any of you guys using an equalizer over pipewire? I just want to stream Spotify and make it actually sound good, should not be a major deal, right?!? I've been using JamesDSP for a while but now it just doesn't work anymore on my setup... advice on good alternatives appreciated, thanks !

Matt, 2 questions: - out of curiosity, have you tried DavinciResolve while you were on Gentoo ? - isn't Blender also a pretty capable video editor ? I know it's main thing is 3D editing, but I remember people using it just as a video editor. And it is FOSS. And probably more stable than Kdenlive. Probably has pretty limited features though

A thing with file managers is there never seem to be an option to show the folders size on the size column rather than the 4KB block size (without checking the properties), which I’m not interested about

Dolphin is life

when openSUSE changes its name will you keep it

what file manager are you using now Matt? I've stopped using Krusader and went to dolphin but it's not the same...