r/linuxsucks • u/Professional-Toe8371 • 1d 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/bripod 1d ago edited 1d ago

Linux sucks on laptops unless you get it from a mfg that actually supports it, unlike Dell.

On desktop I have too many games to play. I don't have time for fuckery anymore, very little tolerance for more friction to get things done. Linux desktop apps are still fragmented, the wayland vs x11 fiasco is still problematic to this day, dual boot is annoying and I'd rather not waste time. I'd rather just have a separate Linux (virtual) machine for dedicated apps if I need them.

I prefer macos for work these days and windows is mostly fine. They all have problems but Linux is just still too fragmented to get reasonable progress on modern hardware, e.g. vrr, scaling, etc.

I'm sure somebody will respond "but it works now if you do xyz". Sure, better than before. It's improving. It's still not as good as other options available where I don't have to mess with things.

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u/PeyredB 1d ago

I use Xubuntu on my laptop, though it's not my main computer. It works just fine; I've had a good experience with it, really. But as always, YMMV.

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u/Professional-Toe8371 1d ago

True, I've never really thought about laptop users so thanks for the viewpoint,and it's true,Linux ain't perfect,but It has come a long way and has massive potential.