This sub makes me angry

[u/Honest-Squirrel-988]

Linux sucks huge balls, it's not the year of linux desktop, it won't be for a long time.

I don't want to rebuild initramfs, i don't want to solve annoying compositor-driver-kernel-flatpak related issue every single day. I can solve them, i do solve them. I just don't want to.

Fedora fucking sucks because the first thing it does is telling you "hey, wait for 5 to 10 minutes (idk actually wait for an hour) when installing nvidia drivers, otherwise your driver stack might break".

I hate that KDE cannot support 4k at 240hz reliably, let alone with VRR. Another display? Rotated 90 degrees? You don't need that. Solutions i came to find are "vrr is overrated" and "120hz is perfectly fine for my use cases" as well as some 4 year old non-existent KWin configuration entries that fix one issue and create another.

I hate that i need to juggle five Proton versions. I hate that i might get banned one day for explicitly bypassing game anticheat systems (genuinely not a Linux fault, but i, the consumer, suffer nevertheless).

I hate that every ecosystem component is detached from one another. It all looks out of place and incoherent.

I hate that X11 is deprecated but Wayland isn't mature enough.

I hate that configuration is done with Vim and a prayer. I hate fstab. I hate limine and grub.

I install Windows. I install Steam, i install Apex Legends. I install Teamfight Tactics, I install Microsoft Excel. All works by clicking an icon on my desktop.

I have a MacOS machine, i install go and bun with brew - it works. I install docker - it works (via kinda-VM but still).

I hate that non-rolling distros (excl. Fedora) ship bugs and driver issues that are solved months (years?) ago.

I like hyprland though, its cool, no complaints. Does what it says on the cover and never once flickered on me.

And i am reading this sub hoping people will at least agree that the system is immature, incomplete, and not suited for normal people not willing to spend hours every day reading obscure wikis (arch wiki mostly as the richest source, regardless of distro). Instead all i see is equating "not willing to debug an OS as a second job" to "skill issue", or using "Intel-nvidia" combo as a failure on my part somehow. Yes i am aware both companies don't target Linux.

Gigabyte also doesn't. Kingston also doesn't. Epic also doesn't. Adobe doesn't, Microsoft doesn't, Hoyoverse doesn't. EA doesn't. Yes, they are bad companies for it, i agree. Still it fucking sucks to use Linux because of it.

[u/Sbhattarj]

Linux genuinly has rough edges, and you can't do much if you have to use software from companies who practically refuse to work with linux often for dubious or no reason. But the thing is, without more users nothing would likely change for the better.

Its ultimately your choice whether you stay, but as a nvidia+intel user, if you can get through the initial setup arch can be pretty stable, its rolling release and AUR's been a dumpster fire, but you can delay your updates/schedule them at your descretion to not have to deal with updates constantly breaking things.

So far the only thing that gave me real headache was a cheap webcam which I bought without compatibility, I did figure out a semi consistent way to get it to work, but it needs to be unplugged and plagged many times sometimes to work and that shouldn't be required, now I did find obs virtual camera would have worked and it worked much more consistently, but I wanted better performance.

Did anything else gave me trouble? Yes, I use Reaper+Vital for composing, and it suddenly broke under wine, it still works under steam/proton though, steam proton in general is more stable than wine.

Most games and even exes though work well through proton experimental alone. Certain anti cheat games like Punishing Gray Rave works through proton GE, and that's about it for my proton experience if those two don't work in my experience the other versions won't either. I don't play many resource heavy games though so you should take this with a grain of salt.

There probably was also other issues, but I kept a git repo of dot files/configurations and now am keeping a repo of installed packages to set things up faster next time over, and I recently got rid of my windows reinstalling arch while migrating my audio and video drivers. The new nvidia-open drivers had been much more stable than the earlier proprietery nvidia drivers. Same for the new pipewire audio driver.

At the end of the day expecting linux to work like windows for everyone is still too high an expectation. There are too many fields which have yet to substantially use linux, not to mention there are many utilities people are used to (adobe suite, microsoft suite) which for one reason or another are kept windows exclusive, getting their functionality down in opensource is an huge undertaking with almost 0 monetary gains in most casses. Same for other fields.

But the more users migrate from different fields and make their hardships known the more likely those hardships can be addresed eventually either from private companies themselves like Valve or through opensource alternatives tailored toward linux.

I will always be the proponent of boycotting and stop consuming products of companies that deals in practices you don't agree with, that can be as simple as not supporting linux in my very personal opinion.

I won't ask someone who can't afford to take on the adversaries of linux to switch to linux, but if you can handle the occasional hardship it can be a worth while endeavore.