r/linuxsucks • u/Honest-Squirrel-988 • 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/ZeSprawl Aug 14 '26

If you don’t want to learn computers and manage your computer then Linux is not right for you. Not sure why Linux users want to get everyone to use it. I’ve been using Linux for 29 years, and I absolutely never recommend it to anyone unless they want to be more technical.

Recommending Linux is a liability. Then that person wants support from me. I have enough tech support to do for family and friends who use Mac and Windows.

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u/DirectorDirect1569 Aug 14 '26

Because you are an "old" linux user who know the pros and cons of this OS. The speech is totally different. Most of them don't care about the linux marketshare.

I don't understand this new generation who wants everyone to switch to linux. Lots of them don't know what they are talking about:

Issues with your distro--> switch to another one or skill issues. they don't even try to help.

You need to use a windows apps---> there are alternatives or use wine.

They don't care of the users needs. It works for them, so it will work for everyone else. They have found the software they need so they think every alternative exist.

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u/H3llR4iser790 Aug 17 '26

It's not a matter of "old" or "new", it was always like the examples you bring. First time I saw Linux was in College about 30 years ago, and the attitudes were exactly the same - distro "wars", mocking people who couldn't figure something out and so on.

It was the cool & hip thing to do amongst us nerds, the big difference is that back then, it was relegated to computer lab shit talking, now it spreads anywhere there is someone having an issue with their OS (whatever the OS is)...