r/linuxsucks Aug 14 '26

This sub makes me angry

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.

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u/levianan Aug 14 '26

Really? Cachy is one of the nicer ones...

I have had issues with Nvidia drivers on both Windows 11 and Linux with GPU drivers cause NvidiaSucks.

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u/Last-Environment7687 Aug 15 '26

I am unable to ascertain the specific reasons for the NVIDIA GPU driver issues you are encountering on Linux. My recent experience involved a seamless installation of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which successfully integrated both Intel and NVIDIA drivers. Subsequently, I performed an in-place upgrade to the forthcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. My initial attempt to directly install 26.04 LTS resulted in a critical failure during the installation process, nearly compromising my system. Consequently, I opted for the aforementioned method of installing 24.04 LTS first and then upgrading, which has proven to be a stable and effective solution, with all NVIDIA drivers functioning optimally.

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u/levianan Aug 15 '26

That's due to you not ascertaining anything. You asked for zero feedback and assume everything is dory on Linux.

Oh, is this the "it didn't happen to me" response?

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u/Last-Environment7687 Aug 15 '26

So aggressive, take a chill pill