I am starting this to be a thread to voice complaints of Linux you may have.
I have been using Linux solely since 2019.
What is bad and what hopefully should/could be improved.
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One thing is people complain about windows all the time. I thought it is fair to have a Linux complaint thread.
Here are a short list of my overall list.
Gaming is still a pretty bad experience if you want to have a wide selections of games.
Too Many distros and too much fragmentation.
Simple things on Mac and windows are extremely convoluted and require much googling and headache. Setting up a network share via smb or nfs can be problematic and is not really built into the system in a intuitive manner. Mac and windows it is. You have to either manually mount after each launch or you have to add to fstab for each mount which is a text file.
Having basic stuff like hwinfo or hwmonitor often does not work or has very little statistics and information of actual hw temps, fan speeds, etc.
VM is not a real solution to gaming on windows, as kernel level anti cheat does not work. Dual boot is primarily only option for gaming.
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Gaming => lower expectations, since 95% of games were built with no linux in mind,
Distros, I agree: there are only 3 avalible for me, arch,debian,rhel
Simple things: Linux wasn’t built with intention to appeal to regular “dumm” people therefore some brain req. even tho it’s trying to reach that lvl of dummness with more “modern” ui-s and stuff,
use lm-sensors
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Gaming not being built for Linux is partly true but doesn’t mean people can’t complain about it.
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All of you that claim not built for dumm people are also the same people calling for the year of Linux. Which means dumm people have to use it for market share to go up. You can’t eliminate 90% of the population and hope for larger market share.
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nahh, year of linux is cope for ppl who are delusional, it will never happen, also smb/nfs is pretty ez to do, if you wan’t to challenge yourself try running pxe boot of random distro, without net-ventoy 
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Nfs and smb ez after doing it. But requires googling initially when new to Linux.
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Indeed, therefore I’d suggest to people to use https://wiki.archlinux.org/ instead of google, since if article is there, 99% of chance the information is correct & applicable
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Majority of new people use Ubuntu or something like popos when entering Linux fray. At some point they usually distro hop.
Off-topic, I’m pretty much sad that nowdays, people are not even having a single clue how do their devices work, pc/phones/etc with most of stuff being build to require no brain usage, therefore people get used to it quickly, I admire to people from '80 where they knew how machines operated and were curious enough to experiment, unlike today.
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I’m running a ton of VMs trying to choose which distro I want to go with before ditching Windows. I thought that I wanted Mint LMDE, but I may need some packages from Debian Testing and don’t want to break it. 
I know how to do it, but the possibility of it bugging out at some point because of one testing package is annoying.
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Here is another complaint. I often find myself switching distros because I get frustrated when distro maintainers break something with an update. For instance my 6900xt is broken on popos, but not on Ubuntu. And software that worked on popos doesnt work on Ubuntu stream line.
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True, also only reason why people don’t ever switch, because they are afraid of change, also thinking sometimes is required as well, they rather stay stuck to current decision, which in my opinion isn’t really good, but who am I to blame them?
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If you want “good” experience with “recent” gpus try rolling releases, otherwise, using vms is not “real” solution
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Semi-rolling can be good, too, it just depends.
Also what is a “distro” you shall investigate the meaning behind that term, for me it’s “base”+x,z,y packages, therefore I’d rather grab “base” and install packages that I need
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Here is another complaint a gazillion package managers. Apt, aptitude, flatpak, snap, etc. to get all the software you likely have to figure out what is what. Ubuntu uses snap by default which is dog doodoo, popos uses native apps through Apt but also flatpak installs.
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I think “base”+, as well. Sometimes the added packages from certain repos can be nice if you have something you just want to get up and running, THEN do poking around.
I’d say there is big difference between native and “snap/flatpack/appimages” and I understand idea but it “bloats” the system with unwanted duplicate dependencies, also “…” seems to have questionable packages uploaded + if you care about looks, window theming is crap.
I don’t agree with this at all anymore. Maybe if you’re specifically looking for Linux native games (good luck), but not when you’re willing to run Windows games.
Sure some Anticheat games don’t work but the vast majority of games runs just fine on Linux these days, even Day 1.
That’s kind of true but also kinda of not. There’s only a handful of “base” distros and the rest is all derivatives with not a whole lot of differences.
I know Mint has this “beginner” aura around it but from sitting in various support discords, I can absolutely 100% not recommend Mint to anyone (especially not beginners). The packages are ancient even for Ubuntu/Debian standards, they take forever to update from one release to the next and there is really no benefit I can see to running Mint. If you just happen to like Cinnamon (I don’t), there are plenty of options.
I feel like any time it requires you to replace base packages, the whole point of running a distro falls flat.
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