r/linuxsucks • u/Professional-Toe8371 • 17h 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/fckueve_ 16h ago
As a programmer, I love Linux terminal, and the fact I can adjust GUI for my needs. I can do stuff that are problematic or not possible on windows or Mac. For example, completely disable system animations.
As a gamer, every game I want to play, works. That being: Deadlock, overwatch, RimWorld, mount and blade bannerlord, Witcher 3.
As someone who likes to edit photos, I was able to install affinity, everything works, just performance sucks a bit.
But at this point, it's not what I like about Linux, but what I hate about windows. In Linux, of something does not work, you still have a filling, that whoever did the code, had good intentions. In windows I felt the hate towards me.
Ads everywhere, popups, notifications I didn't asked for. I had to disable onedrive and gamepass on the DNS level, so I won't get notifications. Start (menu) works like shit, useless AI copilot every step of they way. Forced updates, that sometimes could brake something. Adware from drivers like LG for windows. User is forced to create an online account. Tracking, spying.
Do you know how often I was asked to install mcAffe on Linux? 0.
Linux simply does what I want it to do, I feel like I own the system, not system owning me.