Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2021 edition
This is a detailed, depressing and really damning view of the current state of the world. Some general thoughts:<p>1. Some things are clearly not Linux&#x27;s fault, like proper support from NVidia;<p>2. The decision to make device drivers part of the kernel (as modules or otherwise) is really showing itself to be a problem. Interestingly, this was one of the drivers behind Fuchsia since device drivers are a huge pain point.<p>3. Some of these were news to me just because I hadn&#x27;t attempted to use them (eg the 10 bit color depth issues). That one&#x27;s kinda sad because it doesn&#x27;t seem to even require such hardware to expose those issues. Just set your color depth in xorg.conf and watch the world burn (apparently).<p>4. Further to (3) it seems like a lot of issues remain unresolved just because they don&#x27;t affect or aren&#x27;t prioritized by the devs. Possibly they might require large architectural changes. Whatever the case, this is the negative of not having central product direction. Of course there are benefits to that too but this is a list of issues;<p>5. The Wayland list is damning as it reads like serious architectural errors were made for something that was meant to learn from X; and<p>6. PulseAudio continues to be the answer to the question nobody asked.<p>This should be sobering to anyone this with even a modicum of objectivity because it reads like a list that will never be solved.