In case anyone wants to point me in the right direction or give me some pointers, I’m a lifelong windows developer who switched to Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 lts) on my personal desktop and a laptop (I’m fully in on the switch) and it’s not great.
I think we need to accurately represent the shortcomings so people who switch aren’t surprised.
So far those are:
1. Laptop - Battery life is bad compared to windows. It’s about half.
2. Laptop - sleep doesn’t work.
3. All - multi-monitor setup with different pixel scaling doesn’t work for many applications.. unless you dig into all the Wayland options and issues and figure out how to launch all these apps under Wayland.
4. All - In general Wayland vs X issues. I can’t screen share with zoom.
5. All - Bluetooth driver issues - my Bluetooth headset won’t connect as an audio input and output device at the same time.
Now to be fair, I think all these are okay trade offs but they are a conscious choice. If you have anything outside a standard one monitor, wired peripherals setup you will probably hit issues you need to debug.
I started paying for Ubuntu pro to put my money into it, so I’m hopeful for these kinds of things in the long term.
I think we need to accurately represent the shortcomings so people who switch aren’t surprised.
So far those are:
Now to be fair, I think all these are okay trade offs but they are a conscious choice. If you have anything outside a standard one monitor, wired peripherals setup you will probably hit issues you need to debug.I started paying for Ubuntu pro to put my money into it, so I’m hopeful for these kinds of things in the long term.