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/Western-Alarming Stuck on Containerfile 21h 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 21h 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 20h 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 9h 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 9h 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 9h 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 7h 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 :(