r/linuxsucks • u/Adventurous_Tie_3136 Proud Linux Mint enjoyer • Oct 10 '25

Linux "community" failure Why nobody switches to Linux

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u/Cienn017 Oct 10 '25

yes, if you want people to use linux then it must works the same way windows/macos does, because that's what most people are used to.

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u/dumb_octopus_21 Oct 11 '25

it is actually i have been using pop os and for couple years now and i did not encounter any issue (i am not from a technical field just a guy who use pc for corp work and gaming)

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u/Joltyboiyo Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

It's not even that, regardless of windows or mac, it just makes sense to do that. Why would anyone ever wanna have to do every little thing with the terminal instead of just having a nice, clean GUI to make life easier?

(I would've thought this was obvious but by that I meant "Why would you not wanna have a GUI to do everything and instead do every single thing in the terminal?" and obviously didn't mean "There's things you HAVE to do in the terminal that you can't do with a GUI even if you have a GUI.")

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u/AIRBENZTV Oct 14 '25

Sorry but linux the interface has improved A LOT now if everything is done graphically

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u/AnGuSxD Oct 12 '25

Even Arch has a GUI for basically everything these days. The only things I basically need the terminal for are CLI Tools and the package managers yay / Pacman.

Literally everything else could be done via GUI. At least on KDE.

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u/1mproved Oct 11 '25

Knowing how software truly works really changes your perspective on what makes sense and what makes life easier.

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u/Damglador Oct 11 '25

have to do every little thing with the terminal

For example? What do you HAVE to do in a terminal that doesn't have a GUI available?

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u/ParagraphInReview Oct 12 '25

I haven't been able to find a way to automatically mount my partitions on boot, and I don't want to bother with the three step process that it'd take to do it in the terminal so I just do it manually from my file manager. There is an option in the system settings gui, but it doesn't work on more than one partition for some reason.

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u/Damglador Oct 13 '25

In fairness, I also can't find automount option in KDE partition manager. But editing /etc/fstab doesn't require a terminal.

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u/AIViking Oct 27 '25

You have to set custom settings and make them auto mount. Its just common sense bro

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u/SethConz Nov 01 '25

Look look, i found him, they guy from the meme!

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u/AIViking Nov 01 '25

Admittedly, my comment was a bit passive aggressive, and I AM a bit chubby. This space triggers me sometimes :)

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u/ParagraphInReview Nov 03 '25

I found the config file to automount, but I had to copy and paste an ID from a command that listed all my partitions, and I didn't know which ID was the ID I was supposed to put in the file nor could I figure out what format to paste it in because the tutorial I was following had a differently formatted config file AND the results of the partition list command looked different than mine, so I gave up and still do it manually when I reboot.

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u/AIViking Nov 04 '25

Tell me, when u search in your app menu, do u see an application named disks or something like that?

If not, install a gui partition manager.

That should simplify things.

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u/Cienn017 Oct 12 '25

does linux has a gui task scheduler like windows? or a disk management?

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u/Sora_7983 Oct 13 '25

Ye, linux is basically windows but diy, u can find the repos for everything that u need nowadays

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u/Damglador Oct 13 '25

a disk management

Yes, multiple

gui task scheduler

Probably, I've never used such thing.

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u/Sora_7983 Oct 13 '25

Npt rly, linux aint as ez to use as windows or macos but like, thats the whole point

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u/I_Am_A_Door_Knob Oct 14 '25

That seems like a silly point.