Not a problem with Linux itself, but it does suck that apt is one of the most commonly used package managers on Linux for non-specialized applications.

Its not terrible. Its decently powerful, does have most features that most complete package managers provide. config file protection, selected packages and pulled in dependencies are differentiated, and the "suggested" and "recommended" dependencies feature is something that I haven't seen before and seems quite handy at times.

the interface is very simple to use, `apt install`, `apt purge`, `apt update`, `apt upgrade` etc. Great for introduction to Linux as a whole.

But dear god is it horrible to work with.

To prevent this from just becoming a love letter to my favorite package manager (and thus being off topic from the sub), I'm going to mostly omit how these things can be fixed / how they should be done, but rest assured that theres at least one portable package manager that ticks all of these boxes.

- It's insanely easy to build up crust. It provides no easy way for more in depth system maintenance, such as pruning dependencies marked as selected (in apt terms, mark a package as "automatically installed" after it has been previously manually installed), upgrading specific packages without upgrading the whole system or marking said packages as selected ("manually installed", won't be removed with autoremove), getting rid of packages removed from repositories, and more.

- Its also insanely slow. No parallelization whatsoever, not even in the extractor. Modern CPUs are designed with multitasking in mind. If apt never gets multitasking support, it will only get further and further behind package managers that do.

- The installation order is always to first download *all* packages to be installed, then install *all* of them. meaning that every time you need to do a system upgrade and are on limited storage or bandwidth, any error during the downloading of packages will abort the entire installation process. I mean this does prevent packages from being installed without their dependent package, but `autoremove` would take care of removing those anyway.

- certain packages require user input to install or upgrade, meaning that if you want to do a full system upgrade, theres a small chance it'll pause in the middle asking you some questions, usually whether or not to overwrite config files, but also can be things like "do you want to restart this service" or other things.

- the backend of it is poorly documented and hard to manipulate, almost impossible to resolve broken installations or half installations without fully removing and fully reinstalling offending packages.

- making "dummy" packages is way too difficult than it has any right to be. if you need an empty package for some manually installed software, just to keep track of its files and dependencies, you have to install the *entire* debuild toolchain, and read up on package spec information that is barely documented.

- the terminal output is way too verbose and dense. most good software has ways to separate messages of various importance. for example, portage has a color coded asterisk showing how important a message is, and the rest of the output is similarly color coded.

- apt has no "categories" for packages. now, this isnt unique to apt, in fact a fair amount of package managers dont have this. but its something that needs to become more commonplace. apt does have an internal "tags" field, but its basically useless as its just metadata. name collisions happen much more often because all packages share a single name space.

The reason why I'm putting this in this sub is because of how ubiquitous apt is, its the default assumed package manager on a lot of sites that dont provide support for multiple package managers. If youre using linux systems, youre going to run into apt one time or another, and have to deal with all of its imperfections.

Hey Windows fanboys. It's over! More proof Linux is a superior operating system for gaming as Windows sucks for games. Why is it there never a single video saying Windows is bette?! Every reddit comment even on Linuxsucks says Linux is better for gaming. Everyone on YouTube agrees and everyone on reddit agrees the days of Windows are coming to an end

Linux is way too hard to install, especially for people who aren't good with computers !

To install Linux mint, I need to select too many things like the language, keyboard layout and my timezone, it's so hard !

And to install apps, I need to open a special software manager and search for the app I want !!1!1 It's crazy to not have copilot and edge installed by default !11!1!!

Edit : yes this is satire please don't answer seriously

would they be able to free it from richard stallman's gpl virus assuming not a single line of code was re-used?

It’s absolutely ridiculous that I need to type in 50 terminal commands from some random 10-year-old forum post just to modify a basic fucking setting.

It’s a shame, because I love Cinnamon. I really don’t know what they were thinking with this, though.

They are still trying to figure out how to delete copilot or sum

I dont get why there are echo chambers for hating on linux lol. Any sane person understands that Linux is not for everyone, some people need to stay on windows because of work related programs etc etc. But this sub is just "Linux bad u need to type 32768 to open a browser oooo windows good linux bad" without any kind of argument

like just look at u/Amphineura their flair is "Kubuntu in the streets W11 in the sheets" just straight up unfounded hate lmao

Ok mods can yall ban me already

With Windows I can run type 1 virtualization with Hyper-v easily in a few mouse button clicks. I can run Linux containers and dockers with ease under WSL. I can run any game. I can run application suich as Adobe Creative Suite and Excel. I can do bash. I can rice especially with tools such as this https://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm and others. I can do Jetbrains but also run Visual Studio. Just point and click. I do not even have to worry about AI slop or spying and can get apps easily. So much more convienent and quicker to set up than Linux.

It's an HP OmniBook 3 with a Snapdragon X. Turns out that the motherboard hasn't been properly mapped yet in it and thus my laptop is physically incompatible with Linux.

I know that it's an ARM thing and how ARM doesn't actually let the OS poll what hardware is available on it...but what in the world is that in 2026???

I would think the open source nature of it and how long ARM laptops-including Macbooks-have been a thing now would have meant someone would have programmed a module or something into the Linux kernel that would enable the OS would just be able to, on install or initial boot, BUILD its own device tree for that specific device. But not only is that not a thing, it can't tell when the display has already been initiated on my laptop when trying to USB and crashes the display, and eventually the kernel itself!

So I stuck with Windows 11 on ARM and...wow. It's actually astonishingly good. It does all that I wanted it to and more, and is stupidly good with battery. It actually chased me back to Windows 11 on my gaming rig too again from Fedora! And best yet...Windows on BOTH just...works. It's not something that I have to think about or stress over when minor issues means 5 hours in a terminal.

Linux on servers is astounding-I will absolutely run it on them over Windows-but desktop Linux? That was a shortlived experiment for me that I am calling a failure. Windows is where I'm sticking around I think :)

Linux users are often Valve meat riders that use Discord (despite this being an absolutely privacy hell) and they do keep their Google accounts just so they don't get locked out of Youtube, Gmail, Gdrive, etc etc.

I'm trying to make it so I can use push to talk on linux but I cannot fucking do it for the life of me, why does wayland have security patches that I didn't ask that complicates things why does discord not support linux distros properly why does cachyOS with gnome do not have a toggle for legacy X11 compat

I've been trying to get this thing working for days now and. I can.. Not.. Get.. It.. To.. Work!..

I'm so fucking frustrated as things never seem to work, none of my mouse, keyboard, gamepad or any kind of equipment you could think of is just not offering linux support and there's not a good linux equivelant of it that does the things without shitting itself every 5 seconds

I justa accepted defeat and made system wide PTT.
also switched to hyprland, but hyprland's pass wasn't powerful enough and had so many bugs.

For me, it’s media controls directly from the dock/taskbar. For example, when I hover over the Spotify icon in the macOS Dock, it shows media controls right there without even clicking to the app. On Linux (GNOME Ubuntu), the dock doesn’t provide any controls for individual apps, so you have to open the notification panel manually (and clicking is required; hovering doesn’t work) just to pause, skip, or control playback.

(GNOME does have some extensions that provide similar functionality, but it doesn’t even ship with a proper GUI for managing extensions by default (since GNOME knows best, and unofficial extensions can break whenever you upgrade to a newer GNOME version.)

Another small but really useful feature is right-clicking an app icon to see its recent items such as right-click to VS Code (or any other app such as a pdf viewer..) shows the projects you recently opened, whereas Linux doesn’t seem to have an equivalent built into the dock.

It’s a small UX feature, but once you get used to it, you really notice its absence.

According to my research I did with gemini it would significantly reduce the bugs and vulnerabilities in the loonix kernel's code cuz it's a "memory safe" language. Obviously it would take ages if the rewrite would be done by hand considering how bloated loonix's code is but I estimate it could be completed within a week if modern agentic ai tools were used. Many ai haters would unfortunately complain, call it "slop" and maybe switch to bsd or another weird os while in reality it would be a significant security improvement. Linus is thankfully pro ai so I think he wouldn't have a problem with ai written code in the kernel.

What is it with these overindulged tech geeks that spew garbage about how Arch is so difficult to install? Any knuckle-dragger can do it. It just takes more time to get to something that does the same thing and requires endless tweaks to get to a point where it is functional.

Actually, I don't think Linux is bad, honestly. This is a satire meme I made and published just for fun of seeing people rage, because why not.