Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux.

For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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Support for auto cloud sync from vendors, or just auto cloud sync of setting between devices.
DE stability. I keep a Mac around for times when Gnome is kind of broken.
cmd shortcuts which don’t interfere with app shortcuts.
Powerful desktop Arm chips.
Gui to manage services.
Gui to manage firewall.
Easy fleet management tools.
A real terminal services and Remote Desktop solution.
Desktop icons.
Tighter userland security.
Tighter OS security. Mostly dm-verify and fs-verify.
Tiling support. (There are extensions, but I need to experiment.)
Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade.
Base and extras being cleanly separated.
- Easy fleet management tools
  Linux is the king of fleet management tools.
  
  That would be Windows.
  For server config management there are lots of tools. FreeIPA and Ansible will do quite a bit, but when getting into stuff to manage Linux desktops fleets there isn’t a lot of endpoint management out there.
  Fleet Commander is the main effort out there, and then Red Canary.
- gnome is broken but there are better DEs imo
  
  There really isn’t.
  It’s only every so often with extensions, and every release reduces the number of extensions I use.
- Gui to manage firewall.
  which one? did you try firewalld or opensnitch?
  Desktop icons.
  you mean the specific icons of an other OS, or something else?
  Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade.
  manually, or even automatically? if it's the first, check out DKMS
  
  Gui to manage firewall. which one? did you try firewalld or opensnitch?
  Which which one?
  I use firewalld regularly. Firewalld isn’t a GUI, and it’s a wrapper around Nftables and/or iptables depending on the distribution.
  I haven’t tried opensnitch.
  Desktop icons. you mean the specific icons of an other OS, or something else?
  Not having to use a Gnome extension to get desktop icons. 🙂 Although, other DEs aren’t much better.
  Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade. manually, or even automatically? if it's the first, check out DKMS
  DKMS is setup, and I still have to plan my kernel upgrades due to the compilation time.
  
  Which which one?
  netfilter, iptables, or one that is based on them
  Firewalld isn’t a GUI
  that's right, but it has an official GUI: https://firewalld.org/documentation/utilities/firewall-config.html
  I haven’t tried opensnitch.
  it has per-app rules, and can show a popup for programs that don't yet have a rule. you can also limit the access by time, destination, and port
  DKMS is setup, and I still have to plan my kernel upgrades due to the compilation time.
  in my experience every kind of update requires planning and a reboot because incompatibilities between new libs and already running older programs will cause problems. but DKMS may help in making it less of a work

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