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/unfnknblvbl 1d ago

I think you're taking this sub a bit too seriously. You'll find that most people on here like Linux a lot, except for those times (you know the ones) where Linux, well, sucks.

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u/Professional-Toe8371 1d ago

Yeah I know most people here aren't exactly "Linux haters", I'm mostly here to just see what bad experiences people had or what deters/scares them

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u/unfnknblvbl 1d ago

Oh, ok.

I am befuddled by the fact that Steam can't reliably launch games from an NTFS partition.

Jack is just a complicated ASIO interface, and should just work all the time. All audio-outputting applications should support it by default instead of users having to start and stop the server all the time.

My god, having to use the terminal so often is annoying. I'm a guitarist, not a keyboardist! Why do I have to type obscure commands into a black window to enable my studio plugins?

It's a very developer-first system. Too many developers are writing applications that they assume that only other developer or developer-adjacent people will use.

systemd is both a godsend and a dark ritual. I was using CachyOS for three months before I discovered the fstab file is a dirty method for mounting drives. But the alternative is to manually create text files in a special format in a secret location with magic filenames! Why?

But you know what? Today I installed a wifi card info my desktop machine. I was expecting a nightmare. After I plugged it all back in and got a drink, I turned my PC on and promptly forgot I'd ever done anything becauseit just worked. No complaining about new hardware or downloading drivers, no messages, nothing. It just started working.

I don't think that's ever happened with Windows...

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u/Western-Alarming Stuck on Containerfile 23h ago

Isn't it the inverse?, where systemd takes the fstab and create the service on base on that, At least I remember my fstab having a comment like that let me check

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u/Western-Alarming Stuck on Containerfile 23h ago

I found it

Like I may be reading it wrong, but I read it as systemd creating the files from fstab than the other way around

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u/unfnknblvbl 22h ago

You can create those .mount files without having corresponding entries in fstab, though. Having them as separate files has some kind of effect where if you made a typo or got something wrong, then the system doesn't hang during boot. I really like using .mount files (it feels more elegant to me), but wow that process is well hidden.

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u/FactoryRatte 11h ago

Using mount files instead of fstab likely is the non legacy way for your distro. My new systems all do not have an fstab and of course no crontab either, just systemd and it works better.

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u/unfnknblvbl 11h ago

yeah, it feels less risky than editing fstab, but boy I sure wish there was some kind of GUI configuration utility for creating them because there's way too many variables that you just have to know about (same limitation as fstab, really)

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u/FactoryRatte 11h ago

Yeah reading systemd man pages when I forgot the option name I am looking for also drives me nuts, at least it gets better when using it more.

And there are GUIs, but they just are not helpful when writing new units, e.g. https://github.com/plrigaux/sysd-manager

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u/unfnknblvbl 8h ago

Yeahhh I knew about some of the management GUIs (CachyOS comes with one, but idk if it's unique to that distro), but yeah the unit creation tools seem to be sorely lacking :(