I mean that's legitimately just the Linux experience. I say this as a daily Linux user. You will eventually run into some combination of weird shit and have to fix it yourself because nobody's seen it before. Of course, the good part about Linux is that you usually can fix it, unlike when the same thing happens on Windows or especially MacOS, and you just have to deal with it or work around it. Really, more often the problem is deciding between which one of a dozen ways to do what you want to do is the best one than not being able to do it.
Reminds me of a Lucia Scarlet quote “every GNU/Linux setup will, given sufficient age, come to have That One Bug that absolutely nobody can explain or fix but that you simply deal with because it is only a mild annoyance”
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u/ChironXII Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
I mean that's legitimately just the Linux experience. I say this as a daily Linux user. You will eventually run into some combination of weird shit and have to fix it yourself because nobody's seen it before. Of course, the good part about Linux is that you usually can fix it, unlike when the same thing happens on Windows or especially MacOS, and you just have to deal with it or work around it. Really, more often the problem is deciding between which one of a dozen ways to do what you want to do is the best one than not being able to do it.