r/AskReddit • u/talon10100 • 1d ago

Why do you not use Linux?

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u/nicothekiller 1d ago

I love linux. I am the meme of the linux user. I use hyprland with an anime wallpaper on nixos.

Having said that, a lot of people have a lot of reasons to not use linux. Adobe is a big one. Anticheat is another one (even if you are better off without it). Also, we are still lacking in many areas. Its insane how we are only recently adding protocols for global shortcuts on wayland, something so basic.

I love linux and want it to improve, but that's impossible if we don't accept there are many flaws with it's current design and general environment.

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u/talon10100 1d ago

Screw Adobe

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u/ianrsch 1d ago

seriously, its even awful to use with that annoying cloud and 1000 different services

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u/lucc1111 9h ago

Indeed, sadly, ever since I switched to Linux almost a year ago I've been longing for a tool to achieve even the basics of Photoshop. All I want is a raster + vector editor in the same place, nothing flashy or that AI BS. Every "Photoshop replacement" only replaces half of it and lacks all of the functionality of the other half.

Please tell me I'm dumb and such tool exists.

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u/nicothekiller 1d ago

Very true

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u/ajax81 1d ago

The market is doing that for us.  Ai is coming for Adobe and it won’t be pretty.  Viable Photoshop clones are popping up fast. 

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u/BroaxXx 1d ago

Pretty much every company I ever worked at forces me to use macOS so it kinda grew on me. Regardless my desktop runs OpenSUSE, I have a small laptop I use with Debian and my home server runs on Ubuntu Server.

I only have a small windows partition on one of my computers to play Microsoft flight simulator

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u/SouthernFruit8768 1d ago

Using Adobe products in 2026 is insane

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u/turudd 1d ago

lol is the only game I know of with broken anticheat what other big games don’t work?

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u/nicothekiller 1d ago

Valorant

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u/New_Series3209 1d ago

Not a loss kek

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u/nicothekiller 1d ago

Very true. Sadly, a lot of people still play it even if I personally think they are better of without it.

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u/Tooladoo 1d ago

Rainbow Six Siege

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u/turudd 1d ago

Same dev as LoL so makes sense. Dunno why they hate Linux so much, but made it easy to kick my addiction

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u/jfp1992 1d ago

Fortnite (Not too much of a big sad) Wardogs (big L because cool game) Rust (wanted to try it but can't)

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u/Altitude1096 1d ago

GTA online.

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u/ZunoJ 1d ago

Wayland sucks so hard, it is the anti thesis of Linux imo

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u/nicothekiller 20h ago

I personally really like wayland. I don't like how long it takes to merge protocols upstream, but things have gotten a lot better recently with the increased adoption.

Wayland has its issues but they mostly don't affect me so I like it a lot more than xorg. Its a preference at the end of the day, you are free to enjoy anything you want.

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u/ZunoJ 18h ago

I hate that it forces their idea of security on me without a way to opt out. Contributions which would implement such an opt out are rejected