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.

  • UntouchedWagons@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    23 days ago

    My desktop PC running Fedora 43 goes to sleep in a weird way. When I was running Windows and the computer went to sleep the power button would blink and I could wake the PC with my keyboard or mouse. On Fedora the power button doesn’t blink (no big deal) and I can’t wake the PC with my keyboard or mouse, only the power button works.

    Another issue is if I have the option to turn the monitor off after a certain amount of time I cannot get it to wake from sleep. If I turn the monitor off and on there’s no signal. If the monitor goes to sleep because the PC goes to sleep it’s fine.

    Something randomly causes Firefox to hoover up all my computer’s RAM. I can tell my system is going to lock up because the fan on the CPU cooler ramps up. When Firefox finally sucks up all the RAM the entire desktop is unresponsive. I had to enable the system rescue keys and I sometimes have to manually trigger the OOM killer.

    Raw photo editing on Linux sucks. I’ve tried DarkTable, RawTherapee and some other program and didn’t like any of them. The UI is incredibly complex or blurry.

    • GetAwayWithThis@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      I run F43 KDE on my desktop. I have an amd gpu and ryzen cpu. And I also experience weirdness with display connections.

      I used a KVM to switch between my work laptop and personal desktop but since I use Fedora, I can’t. I cannot switch back to my desktop. The screen remains blank no matter what I do. I could not figure out if the underlying system is responsive or not.

      When booting, it feels like there is a race condition between the gpu drivers maybe and something else. Sometimes I get no image after GRUB. The PW promt for LUKS would be the next step, but the monitor receives no signal and goes to sleep. Reboot fixes it, but sometimes 3 tries are needed.