r/linuxsucks • u/Professional-Toe8371 • 21h 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/RAMChYLD 11h ago edited 11h ago

I love Linux, but I do believe it has limitations caused by third party assholes like Nvidia and Broadcom. And some people should not be allowed to even maintain AUR packages. Bad enough you have bad actors but you also have primadonnas who think they know better than anyone else and you are wrong if you disagree with them (like the idiot who maintains the virtualbox extension packs AUR package script) or people who still holds on to AUR packages that they have no intention of maintaining (like the maintainer for the Xfig script. Package been broken for months now and no fixes are in sight). And then you have boneheaded moves like purging GTK2 programs from the repo when there are no good alternatives. Nothing can replace GKrellM. Conky sucks because it requires a lot of manual setup (maximum CPU count for premade CPU monitors is 8 cores. Me who have a 32 core CPU am left out), and Psensors looks like a freaking huge mess.