every single person i know who switched to linux
- likes it more then windows
- has one baffling bug that makes no sense they have no idea how to fix and cannot find info about online (partially cause of the death of google search)
and yes, this includes me
you WILL find love again and it will only come at the cost of going "wait why does my window resize every time i alt tab?? that's so annoying. but like, within acceptable ranges annoying. ugh" or something like that.
mine is "firefox stops having buttons in the top bar work after a time"
Jul 22, 2026, 4:09 PM@junebug i had this a while back, iirc it seemed to be related to having vscode open, somehow?
@Ember i don't usually ahve vscode open? but i'll try uninstalling vscode
@junebug mine are "changing display resolution/frame rate NOT through settings app sets built-in display to 200% scaling" and "when steam is open mouse cursor is always visible unless over steam game"
Jul 22, 2026, 7:56 PM@junebug for some time i had to change a setting for my dock extension *every time* i opened my laptop. and then it magically fixed itself
Jul 22, 2026, 9:09 PM@junebug Mine is "WiFi disconnects very occasionally and i have to tear down a chunk of the network stack to fix this." And it has pursued me across like 6 different machines.
@junebug Mine is some bug in the compositor and/or AMD GPU driver that causes miniature views and tooltips to go blank sometimes, and the only way to fix it is to restart X11. It only happens after the system has gone without reboot for a couple of weeks (it's always running because it's on the PC which doubles as a small server).
@junebug only on some of my systems the chipset audio does not work. On the actual installed OS. On the live usb-stick for the same distro's installer the audio does work. Tried looking it up for a bit, then simply plugged my headphones into a cheap USB audio adapter and moved on. But I've been Linux (and a teensy bit BSD for one box, I should run that again) since the early 00s. So, yeah, pattern holds.
@LilFluff this is how it works. every linux person has 1 bug. it is their special bug. it will never be solved.
Jul 22, 2026, 9:06 PM
@junebug Me too. Well, the one bug I can't fix, anyway (file sharing between Linux and Windows). In consequence of which I haven't been able to use Linux on the desktop - the machine hasn't been switched on for months now - so don't know whether I like it more than Windows.
@TimWardCam @junebug
Could be the Windows are not using high enough level security. By default SAMBA lower levels of MS security are disabled.
Or DNS. Add name & IP of Linux server to the Windows host file.
@raymaccarthy @junebug Two problems:
(1) The Mint GUI does not seem to know about the Windows share. The Windows share *is* more generally readable by Linux boxes because I have a Raspberry Pi that has no trouble accessing it.
(2) [deleted: I was confused by something else]
@raymaccarthy @junebug Note that this is an experiment in whether I can replace Windows by Linux on the desktop for non-techie household members, so any solutions requiring command line or editing of config files are out. (I do have decades of driving Linux on the server using such things, but that's not the point of this exercise.)
@TimWardCam @junebug
Add the Placebar GUI Widget: "Connect to a remote computer or shared disk". The icon is an Earth globe.
It adds a bookmark to caja Filemanager.
I use it to connect to real Windows Shares, or Samba.
I thought you were trying to connect a Windows to a Linux share.
Windows was never 100% GUI. Sometime on it you have to use a console command.
The Net command creating a local account!
@TimWardCam @junebug
Then using GUI Software Manager I added grsync, a GUI to rsync.
Once the bookmark in caja is clicked, then Grsync can be used to sync files with share. Much easier than rsync in the console.
Remember the trailing / on the source or it creates an extra level.
@TimWardCam @raymaccarthy @junebug
Works for me. Linux mint v20, Mate desktop.
I also have file server run with an old Pi. Best accessed from Linux via sftp but samba works too.
Your problem not a firewall one?
I suggest you switch to the distro I use, which replaces your impenetrable problem with a new impenetrable problem.
@eestileib @junebug oh, my distro works great on these computers, but hangs indefinitely on shutdown on the kiddo’s laptop. Could I debug that? Maybe. They run Debian and it doesn’t hang on shutdown, for them, on that laptop.
@junebug i want to try linux so badly but the few friends that i have had try it tell me it becomes impossible to play certain games. what distro are you using? any recommendations?
@ausvak if you wanna play big name multiplayer games like cod or whatever you're shit outta luck. if you don't play that, use any big name non-arch distro. i'm on debian
@junebug @ausvak yeah Steam has done a lot of work over the past 5-10 years increasing compatibility for linux users, so there aren't that many games I simply can't play on Linux Mint (which is Ubuntu under the hood). Occasionally there are still minor tweaks involved but nothing like it used to be.
Jul 22, 2026, 7:31 PM@itsmeholland @junebug @ausvak
I’m on Arch and haven’t had much trouble with Steam games. Granted, I don’t play much AAA.
@junebug every copy of linux is personalized its where most their budget went
- carrie
@junebug previously it was my GPU hard crashing abd causing a bad systen power state when decoding video. that appears to have been fixed ever since i went and yelled at AMD for it. now it's Intel ax210 bluetooth firmware crashing when using my BLE mouse
@junebug the favorite thing for any wireless device to do in linux is have firmware crashes there are no exceptions
@junebug I had one bug where my bluetooth mouse didn´t work. The problem was an empty battery
@junebug 💯
I was you for the second point, but...
https://spacey.space/@mountdiscovery/116958752123961681
@junebug Some folks have already taken this as a prompt so:
There's a chance when I swap my audio output to HDMI I get a noisy echo of the signal.
Which is solved by starting or restarting Discord, somehow.
@junebug
A human-curated single domain of knowledge search facility is tempting.
Most people that I know have more than one baffling bug, to be honest.
I don't know what this fact has to do with Linux or Windows, however. 🤔
Jul 22, 2026, 8:06 PM@junebug Every once in a while when I unplug an HDMI cable the entire session crashes, particularly great when it happens in meetings or when giving talks and fiddling with the non-working beamer. It happens less when the HDMI is connected thrue a USB-C Adapter, but not never. Its been with me for years, no idea how to fix it. You learn to life with it, I barely get upset anymore.
@junebug sleep mode for laptops that just freezes the system like 50% of the time. For me this is the unfixable linux bug xD
@junebug I run several different desktop distros and I sync Firefox. I have auto-hiding, vertical tabs. Except, sometimes the tabs don't hide until I toggle the hide tabs button. Doesn't happen when I try to screen-capture it for a bug report.
Mine was "my WiFi card causes my CPU to detect voltage spikes that aren't there when it tries to sleep" but I actually found out how to fix it by deep diving into the ArchWiki for something entirely unrelated so now I don't think I have any. For now.
@junebug, no, I don't believe that it's a partial cause of Google search being bad (or dead).
@junebug mine is screen locking not being automatically disabled when a video is playing full screen on Firefox on I3 (it works with full screen videos on VLC and it used to work one or two Debian versions ago)
@junebug Since I had like a million windows problems on the client over the last thirty years, an annoying, persistent Linux error would not bother me, but there is simply none appearing. Boring. Linux is boring 😉😆
@junebug my bug is that my pc only finds the monitors if I switch them on first or only a very short time after turning the PC on. But I can't be sure that wiuldn't happen with windows too, I guess.
@junebug So relatable:)))))))))) my Macbook suddenly spins up its fans and shuts down after being on for about 5 days:))) i have no idea where this is coming from. the post was soooooo relaaaatable:)))))
@junebug
YOU probably already know this, Perfect B Angel, but with the enshittification of online search, probably one of the best ways to get accurate Linux help on line is to post your question with appropriate hashtags on the Fediverse.
Wishing you well.
#Linux #LinuxHelp
Jul 22, 2026, 9:40 PM@junebug put me in the screenshot, I'm the one with the Bluetooth headphones that I have to re-pair with the computer once every 2-3 weeks
@junebug Several. But the last one nuked the boot drive so had to start again with a Win10 install, as that was the original OS and then upgrade to Win11.
Plucking up the courage to install Mint again. Never got Logitech devices to work properly and Blender crashed constantly. Not a great first Linux experience if I'm honest.
@junebug One?! Lucky.
Jul 22, 2026, 10:16 PM@junebug I literally have a little flip notepad I have written solutions to weird Linux problems I have in because I can never find them when I need them or I need them on the PC that I saved them on digitally that I can't look at them on because of Problems
@junebug yes. That bug for me is occasional crackling audio on Bazzite ahen using my Bluetooth headphones. Yes, I tried every single guide available to me, without success.
Jul 22, 2026, 11:23 PM@junebug
for me it's my SSD sometimes not waking up from suspend
WHY DO XFCE SCREENSAVERS CRASH SO MUCH??? TELL ME!!!!!
I can’t automount on boot my NAS with part of my Steam library or Steam spins at the loading user data screen and never opens.
I have to boot, turn on Steam, and then mount the NAS.
Jul 23, 2026, 1:09 AM@junebug Linux user for 25+ years. This checks out.
Jul 23, 2026, 1:43 AM@junebug I really don't like Linux anymore. I also absolutely hate Windows and refuse to use it again.
@junebug I genuinely thought I was the exception to this rule until I found myself thinking “well, except for that one inscrutable UI bug, but that doesn’t count”
@junebug Mine is sometimes the computer doesn't fully shut down so I have to watch it during the (short) process. And sometimes, something break during boot and I have to force a restart.
Jul 23, 2026, 6:58 AM@junebug I had one mystery bug where some apps _sometimes_ crashed with no apparent reason and longer Rust compiles crashed midway, but completed if restarted a few times. Turned out one of the two 16 gig RAM sticks had developed a fault so the problems started when enough memory was used to start reserving the faulty area. Pretty much the last thing I checked.
New stick in and it's been rock solid since.