cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
I have a Thinkpad with integrated graphics I basically use as a launcher for Firefox and Steam.
Attached to a docking station with an external monitor connected via HDMI. Nothing fancy.
In several different distros, I can’t play my Steam games on Gnome with Wayland, because the game window won’t open properly.
It’s either bigger than the screen so I only see part of it, or smaller and windowed. A lot of the time it will just show a black screen inside the window.
Tried all available Proton versions, laptop lid open or closed, laptop monitor active or deactivated. Makes no difference.
It works fine on Xfce (X11), KDE 5 (X11) and Plasma (Wayland), so I’m not too bothered.
I’d prefer Gnome, though.
Other issues that don’t bother me much: I had to disable the fingerprint reader in BIOS to get rid of error message spam during boot, and the monitor configuration isn’t applied on the login screen so I have to type my password in blindly.
What bothers me more is that the laptop doesn’t receive an IP address from my DHCP server over WiFi, while my wife’s Windows PC and my phone do. But that’s more likely due to a misconfigured DHCP server than the OS.
Do you have static DHCP IPs being handed out or do you mean it’s just not getting an IP from the DHCP pool? Because for static IPs with machines that sometimes connect via hardwire and sometimes connect via WiFi I always make sure to provision two separate IPs with the MAC addresses for ethernet and WiFi each assigned to the different IPs.
It’s supposed to get an IP from the pool.
But I have a wonky setup with a WiFi repeater that combines 2 SSIDs from the router (for 2G and 5G) into one.
If I connect directly to the router’s WiFi I have no issues.
That sounds less like misconfigured DHCP and more like the wonky setup is preventing DHCP handshakes happening consistently, but could be several different issues, really.