Mainly issues around music production. NI Maschine does not function. There’s an old attempt at a driver for a previous version that sort of works for a trivial part of the functionality on an older device, though not any of the bits I actually need to use if it did work. Unsupported either way. Pretty much simply undoable. (running virtual would not work as I’d need to do a very large install of libraries and keep it up to date and in sync during transition).
Guitar hardware is unsupported (helix). Official recommended suggestions is that a) it’s not supported and you’re on your own, and b) maybe try to run virtually or dual boot (defeating the purpose!)
Not having much luck with audio plugins (the DAW is easy - Reaper is great). NI Access only runs via wine on the old installer (insanity to put my lot in something not only unsupported, but official unsupported and sunsetting). I’ve had very little luck getting essential (to me) paid plugins to run. Have tried wine /bottles /yabridge/every combination of drivers/configs I can think of. No joy. Most plugins (not all) might have an answer, but after many days’ effort, I would categorize this as not doable simply. (unless one is lucky (or not unlucky) - and it’s still not actually supported).
Adobe Lightroom is a non-starter. Yes, darktable exists. It’s great, but not actually covering the use case that makes Adobe worth paying for - full integration across devices syncing both ways, and allowing to separately backup originals via my NAS onto Wasabi or wherever. Free software is fine, but I’m happy to pay for something like this.
Commercial support is what’s needed. I am happy to pay for stuff I use (and I believe others should as well) but my core use cases are not covered, and until companies see the business case for support, very little will change. I know Kilohearts was asked about Linux support recently - they said considered it, but it’s not worth their while. This is a great, newish, company that is not even burdened by technology debt constraining them to Win/Mac and it’s not worth it for them…
Apple is best in class for music, but ecosystem is so closed - plus you can’t easily upgrade HW! I am not a fan.
Windows works very well (yes - it’s quirky, but it works well for me). I am not happy with the direction it’s drifting though.
In meantime, I keep trying to make this stuff work in Linux - I actually do use it happily - but it’s not workable as my main machine.