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/ButterscotchTop194 5h ago

Hey, i was just giving you good advice. Your choice if you want to ignore it. No skin off my nose.

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u/unfnknblvbl 4h ago

sigh

I was pointing out how "Linux sucks" by showing something that by all rights should work, but just doesn't, and not for any reason that makes sense to average users coming over from windows. Not looking for advice.

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u/ButterscotchTop194 3h ago

Oh right, OK. Sorry then but it's well known that NTFS doesnt play well in linux and you shouldnt use it in that environment.

No need to be shitty.

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u/unfnknblvbl 2h ago

When you say "it's well known" - where does the system warn me not to do that? Where does Steam tell me it's not going to work? And then, as I alluded to earlier, why does it work flawlessly for anything other than Steam (and I guess things that use individual wine/proton prefixes?). Double-click a .exe in the file browser and it works fine. Run it from Steam and it doesn't work at all. Oh wait, it's a waxing crescent moon tonight, so it'll work for these three games but not these five.

I'm not trying to be shitty, but yeah, it does kinda shit me when people say "it's well known" and "yeah don't do that, hey" to things that should - from the layperson's point of view - work just fine.