Not rage-baiting, just wanted to share my experience, would switch back to Linux Desktop in a heartbeat if it worked out of the box like Windows;
So i tried Ubuntu 24 LTS as a daily driver for 2 days. These are the issues i encountered that made me go back:
* Locking the screen on Gnome turns off monitors and they never turn back on until restart. This is specific to Wayland and Gnome, KUbuntu seems to work fine (at least for lock screen which doesn't turn off the displays to begin with)
I fixed this by upgrading kernel to 6.14 mainline, but i understand this is frowned upon and a HWE kernel by Canonical is recommended. Unfortunately i did not see 6.14 HWE version when searching with apt.
Spent 6+ hours tracing this down.
* Audio and microphone issues with Soundcore Q45 Bluetooth Headphones. I use Google Meet and Zoom on a regular basis so this is a massive issue. Finally fixed it by downloading some kind of a GUI from the 20th century that allowed setting different codecs for headphones
Spent 4+ hours tracing this down
* Fractional scaling in Wayland results in blurry apps
Didn't even notice this at first until i started getting headaches and switched back to Windows temporarily
* Folder previews don't seem to work in Gnome e.q. a folder with videos showing thumbnails of contents inside the folder icon.
Dolphin supports this so i planned on using that as my second file explorer, but after some time, folder previews stopped working there as well for no apparent reason.
Also the Dolphin file explorer didn't pick up the dark theme at system level for some reason, so every time i opened it up it felt like i got flashbanged in Counter Strike.
After another 5+ hours I couldn't be bothered to spend more time on this as i just needed to get back to work. Will probably try again in 5 years or just get a Mac at this point.
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