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Linux still doesn't have smooth scrolling. There is little visual consistency or shared UX patterns across apps. I had to hunt down a good font because the one that came installed with Pop and Ubuntu was terrible. Spent a day getting drivers for a wifi card to work. Had graphical flickers due to a bug in picom/nvidia that I had to go in and fix. Don't even get me started on the app ecosystem - Mac/win has stuff like omnifocus, 1password, Alfred, photoshop etc etc. Linux mostly you hope there's a web app.

There is strong opposition to the idea of paid app stores on Linux but almost all the best software I use is paid, because it takes teams of people working hard to build it. This is actually the most critical issue imo.

Linux has come a long way but I think they are understandably reluctant to hear bad news that it's still not good enough compared to the alternatives, even if it's much much better than it was.



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