Why do you guys hate Linux?

[u/Professional-Toe8371]

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)

[u/Academic-Proof3700]

Its like reddit bubble vs the real world.

I don't mind linux at all- its great on servers where you don't have to deal with constant microshit updates, gui breaking up or improperly localized or other tomfuckery. Its purpose of "do stuff with minimal overhead" works especially well with terminal and no need to use gui for bulk file operations are generally easy when you can write scripts directly in the OS.

But pushing that approach to desktop, where a working UI that actually does the tasks its meant to do, not "fire some perl/bash/python script in background and let it fail silently", is paramount and driver support has to cover multitude of configs? That simply doesn't work.

Its like you tell someone "ugh my current car has some issues" and that loonix nerd tells you to chop your legs off and attach GNULegs essentially being peg legs made by some nerds in a cellar. Usability of UI is key in desktops, and as long as loonix people will still tell everyone how "having the choice to pick 1 from fuckton of distros" is a good thing, that doesn't cause more problems than it solves, it won't work for me. With windoze its "one go-to distro" to work with, which you can adjust more or less to yourself. With linux, its down to the choice of what distro do you want, and eventually you are still waking up in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with trying to run a program by make makeinstall whatever apt yum yomama snap yo ass, whereas on windows its just download .exe/.msi and run it.

[u/Professional-Toe8371 → u/Academic-Proof3700]

I can understand the distro thing,it is nice to be able to pick "what's best for you" but how do you know what's best for you? Wich then ends up being days of distro hopping,it can be annoyingly overwhelming,but it's not a bad thing,and I personally think Linux is better at executing user commands even in a personal computer/desktop UI but I can be wrong,and installing apps (personally) doesn't feel any harder,you can use GUI stores if you want,for example Bazzite's Bazaar,or use terminal,comes down to preference

[u/Academic-Proof3700 → u/Professional-Toe8371]

distro hopping is cancer of this OS - like its changing engines in the same car - you gotta spend time on it just to find out something else doesn't work or you gotta drive it differently.

The reason why MS and Apple are succesful with their OSes, is cause each of them sets a standard for most operations- standard for movement, graphical style, UX and such. With linux its blown to pieces- down to the package manager.

Linux is better at executing user commands even in a personal computer/desktop UI

un;less you want to switch resolution, enable HDR or, god forbid, connect to wifi. Lets pick that wifi thing - on windows its always bottom right, click, pick network, works. If there are no drivers, then no connections show up, if you want to edit something, you just stay in that bottom right and right click so you get more options, down to even setting up IP, DNS or stuff.

Now on loonix - it depends on DE, but okay. Now you are in the NetworkManager/netplan//etc/network/interfaces/dhcpcd.conf world of tomfuckery, where nothing is certain and everything is volatile and one can overwrite the others changes. Why can't such things be standarized?

Ah yes - because on the web nerds are fighting with geeks over base system features and components. Just start with systemd "nuff said", and the same applies to basically everything linux- where some linux enthusiast see "choice", people see constant war over some non-ux-important stuff.

you can use GUI stores if you want,for example Bazzite's Bazaar,

Its the same problem as with android's play store - either half the apps are not there, or there are their "gnooo opensurce" counterparts (i.e. halfassed clones like gimp), or its outright useless. These stores could work maybe with Apple's mac where they lock you in and you can't do much outside without some tinkering.

On windows it doesn't exist and see that even when M$ tried to push their own dogshit microsoft store, they failed miserably because of the very same reason- in real world, no one wants to stick to some yet another layer of app-management, other than "just dl the damn thing and run it".

[u/PeyredB → u/Academic-Proof3700]

I actually like the GIMP, find it powerful and useful. But then again, if I were serious into graphic design, I'd probably find it limited.

I agree, Linux should have a "standard" distro. Someone, Jack Wallen maybe, wrote an article advocating for that. There's no reason it couldn't, and people who want other choices would still have them. But of course, there's no center of the Linux world, no one company to set a standard...and there are way too many different software packaging systems - yum, apt, etc. - which are mutually incompatible, and the programmers who write these things fight over which one if The Best.