I've tried numerous distros. Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Arch. But every time I get so much technical problems that are hard and time-hungry to resolve. I wonder if i'm the only one experiencing this (on different devices). In that state, I can't really recommend linux for any desktop usage. I'm a developer and I already installed linux servers multiples time without any problems. Here are the issues I had during my multiples explorations of linux in the desktop.
- Debian with KDE with my desktop computer. Had a hard time making the Nvidia drivers works. Then I got an issue while logging-in into my session where KDE (or any other package) could not load. I got back into the login screen after each logins. Had to startx everytime using CTRL+Shift+F3. Could not get my audio driver to work (I had audio, but the KDE audio controller had no options). Lost 4 hours the last 2 days with this set of issues.
- Arch with KDE with my desktop computer. Had a better time with Nvidia drivers and KDE loading. The audio drivers worked but this time the sound was way too low. Increasing the volume to 150% made the audio added saturation to the sound. Not pleasant. Had hard time to make another bootable USB with KDE image burned, had to use DD for that instead. Could not make Spotify to work without a +10 seconds of lags to play any music (worked great on other distros).
- Mint with my personal laptop. I could connect my laptop with my TV using HDMI cable, but the TV could not get the sound of the video played.
- Ubuntu with my personal laptop. This time connecting my laptop with my TV using HDMI recognized the sound. But I had trouble selecting the display option (single shared screen, double screen, etc). The option popped up and kept selecting all options in a fast "for loop" without any way to select the one I wanted.
- Ubuntu with my work laptop. I'm used to press "CapsLock" when I want to use my AZERTY keyboard. Linux systems don't allow that to print special characters. I'm forced to use Shift instead. Not really a big deal. But for an OS where you can custom everything, I could not force this to work even after 3 hours trying to find a solution.
I really wanted to use Linux as my everyday OS as a developer. It is faster and less memory hungry that Windows on WSL for my usual work tasks. But common, why is it so hard to have a descent working system ? But if I want to do other things that troubleshoot my OS everyday, I have to stick to windows... Am I the only one getting much troubles with Linux ?
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