Serious Discussion What Issues You Faced When You Used Linux, and What Did You Do to Fix It?

[lokamoka820]

When I start to use Linux the first issue I faced was screen tearing, my laptop has an integrated intel GPU, I tried to change the distro several times with no success, until I found the solution, all I needed was to enable "TearFree" rendering by creating or editing the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and adding the following lines:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

After saving the file, and reboot the system for the changes to take effect, everything works flawlessly.

Of course this problem was when using Xorg display server, I discovered later that Wayland doesn't have this problem at all.

Now, what problems you faced in your turn? And did you find a solution for it or still searching?

 

[nicolaasjan]

When I first started using Linux (almost 20 years ago), things went not as smooth as nowadays.
Indeed most issues were graphics related, but I got great support on the forums.

I face more challenges on my Windows VM's.