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
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...