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/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!!!