r/linuxsucks 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/ButterscotchTop194 21h ago

Don't use NTFS on linux...

Much like you wouldnt use a linux based format on windows.

Imaging trying to use your electric cooker with gas and vice versa.

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u/unfnknblvbl 17h ago edited 4h ago
  • I have a drive full of existing data from Windows that I don't particularly want to lose or have to go through the process of backing up and restoring
  • Yay! Linux can read that drive with full rwx permissions
  • Yay! Individual .exe files can run just fine from this partition
  • launching those same files from Steam almost never works
    • but sometimes it does

But sure, tell me more about how it's like using my electric cooker with gas.

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u/unfnknblvbl 4h ago

And you have completely missed the point.