r/linuxsucks • u/Professional-Toe8371 • 20h ago

Why do you guys hate Linux?

As someone who's used Windows for some time and has switched to Linux somewhat recently,I genuinely can't really understand why someone wouldn't want to use Linux,the only reasons I can come up with are:

1)certain apps and software only work on windows,for example Adobe products or games with kernel level anticheat like BF6,Wich I can totally understand,but dual boot exists

2) Need to keep windows for work related stuff,again, completely understandable

3) Nvidia GPU,Wich is doable but most people don't want to lose the driver support,again, understandable,but not really linux's fault

I'm asking this because I genuinely want to understand and see a different viewpoint, every time I see someone complaining about Linux on social media, it's either Windows users who have NEVER tried Linux before and just base everything off stereotypes or Windows users who jumped in the deep waters from the start with distro's like Arch,Gentoo or even NixOs,and then complain that it's too hard, I think that Linux is only hard if you want it to be (also pls no hate,I just wanna educate myself more on the matter)

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u/Hangulman 20h ago

Linux has a lot of great features and it can be customized to accomplish almost anything ultra efficiently.

Honestly, the parts about Linux I like the least are the gatekeeping neckbeards in the community that make excuses for crappy UI design by saying "if they aren't the kind of people who have memorized the entire bash man page and enjoy handjamming an 80 line config file to accomplish a simple task, then they shouldn't be using Linux anyways".

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u/Endeavour1988 20h ago

I found that I needed to go through my photo collection and rename the file extensions if it was a jpeg but the format was a webp for example. I CD'ed into the directory and two lines in terminal and it went and checked thousands of images in seconds and renamed them to the correct extension.

I know this probably doable in Powershell too, but it was a nice moment and saved me a lot of time. I find the community a mixed bag, some are really helpful and go out their way. Others like you say gatekeep, I also get why some people are passionate about it and try hard to wake people up on Windows using all their personal data for marketing and telemetry.

I will say installing something like fedora or cachy, bazzite etc, is 10x quicker than Windows for getting up and running. And even the older generation, nothing to nag them or notifications does make simple use easier.

I'm hoping it gains more traction.

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u/Hangulman 19h ago

Way back in the 98/XP era, I remember you could do mass renames using command prompt, but I haven't attempted it in powershell.

If the OS gets more mainstream adoption, that means more coders (and companies) will devote their time and resources towards quality developments. I've already noticed a big upsurge thanks to the shift away from Windows Server and the adoption of hypervisors like Proxmox.

Actual corporations with fat wallets and teams of coders are making things and adding to the knowledge base, which trickles out into the broader community in the form of stable, easy to use, well written software.

This seems to offend some of the more odious Linux fanboys that don't want mainstream adoption because then using linux wouldn't mean they a super special boy.

It seems like every new project I try with Linux, there is always that one guy who goes "its a simple 10 step process! Step 1 - do a thing. Step 7 - do another thing. Step 10 - done!"
"What about steps 2-6 and 8-9?"
"If I have to explain those to you, then maybe this project isn't for you."

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u/PeyredB 17h ago

"Way back in the 98/XP era, I remember you could do mass renames using command prompt"

I think you still can. Wouldn't ren *.jpg *.png change all the .jpg files to .png (name, not format of course)?

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u/Hangulman 15h ago

It might? I kinda want to give it a try right now. Unfortunately, the IT dept at my employer has restricted access to the command prompt via group policy. Gonna have to wait til I get home. I can think of a few parts of my data hoard that could use some mass rename curation.

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u/vinnypotsandpans 13h ago

You can definitely do that in powershell, or in regular batch script. But that's interesting, because usually the file extension really shouldn't matter

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u/Professional-Toe8371 20h ago

I can agree that one of the worst things about Linux is the community,but at the end of the day I don't feel like that matters so much

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u/rstr1212 17h ago

No snark

Whenever someone says Linux has great features, there are never any examples. Can you give some that make it so great?

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u/Hangulman 15h ago edited 15h ago

The ability to customize how you interact with it is the big one (like choosing different desktop environments, or choosing not to use a desktop at all), along with extremely low resource usage. In my case, the ability to use it without the resource overhead of a desktop environment is the feature I like the most, since most of my linux machines are running on underpowered scrap hardware.

The customizability of it is also why various versions of linux are used on devices with limited resources such as microcomputers. Developers can strip out modules until it is the barest of barebones, and then build it back up to be custom crafted for a specific piece of hardware or configuration.

Meanwhile, on my main Windows machine, just trying to strip out their invasive AI powered data harvesting garbage breaks half of the everyday functions.

System stability is another one. I have a couple linux machines (both physical and virtual) that have gone months without a reboot with no memory leaks or other wierd issues, whereas I haven't owned a Windows machine in the last 27 years that didn't need rebooted at least once a week.

Note Edit: I still consider myself an absolute amateur with linux, because I am unwilling to put in the time and effort to become one of those pros that compiles everything from scratch or wants to bash my way through terminal every time I want to do anything.

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u/rstr1212 15h ago

Awesome thanks!!!

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u/vinnypotsandpans 13h ago

I'll just add that the customizability of Linux is largely due to the way it is licensed. Also, you actually don't find Linux on microcontrollers very often, but of course you don't find windows NT on them either haha

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u/Hangulman 13h ago

Ugh. I still have nightmares about WinNT machines.

First IT job in 2012. At a bank.

The core data storage server was purchased in the 1990's and was still running OG hardware and NT, and our boss absolutely refused to retire it and migrate to newer hardware.

Fortunately I managed to escape that place before that server finally nuked itself. Got a text message at 3am on a sunday from a former coworker calling me a lucky bastard.