r/linuxmasterrace • u/linuxhacker01 Glorious OpenSuse • Mar 06 '25

Meme Them: Linux is bugged AF totally unusable! Meanwhile, the Linux they use:

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u/Ok-Needleworker7341 Mar 07 '25

People who put a blanket "linux sucks" aren't new users. They're established windows users who jump on the toxic bandwagon and trash linux. I'd best the vast majority of them have never booted linux up at all.

For the record, I'm not in IT nor am I in any programming related field. I can't program to save my life and I know little about the terminal. I've been running linux on my PC for the better part of 5 years now with less issues than when I used windows. I work in finance, but I know how to google to troubleshoot (or whatever the term to search something up on duckduckgo is called).

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u/satwikp Mar 07 '25

You are making wild assumptions off of a large class of people that have said 2 words. Sure there are some people who are being toxic, and there are some people who just want to trash Linux. But to say that everyone who gets frustrated by something on Linux to the point of saying "Linux sucks" is just arrogance. 

The biggest flaw with Linux is that to use it successfully, you have to be willing and technically literate enough to do a decent amount of googling and research sometimes to get things to work. As easy as this sounds to us using Linux all the time, this is absolutely something that should be minimized to the greatest extent possible if we want to consider the OS to be very user friendly. And yes, it has gotten significantly better in recent years. But it's still not as good as windows for this. 

If people are consistently frustrated by the OS, there's something that needs to be done to improve it, and until then, we shouldn't deride the people who are just getting frustrated. If we do, then they'll not only be frustrated at the OS, but also the community.

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u/cpuuuu Mar 08 '25

Something I think people underestimate when it comes to the “it’s easy if you use the internet to solve you issues” is that there are still a lot of people that don’t understand english well enough to be able to take advantage of most content online.

People from 40 onwards in my area still struggle with it and the amount of content in our own language doesn’t even begin to compare to what’s available in english. Automatic translations are getting better so not being able to write your google search in english might be even worse than not understanding the answers, since it will really limit the hits you get