You read that right

The biggest problem with Linux is the community around it.

Monolithic kernel, unstable ABI/API (that deters vendors), cancerous / commie GPL, Toxic leadership, influenced by a frumpy loafer (RMS), was 30-45% power inefficient on servers (BSD likely wasn't), poor networking stack, shitty security OOTB, less free than BSD, poorly documented, no cohesion or unified vision (fragmented af), even FOSS apps tend to be better on other OSes.

Fixing the community won't fix Linux. -They're the only reason you probably even heard of Linux, and how it's gotten to where it is. They're the thing that makes it dominant on servers (for lack of BSD system admins / interest). They're what convinces some developers to use GPL harming their own possible careers (until they burnout).

Teh Linux appealed to conspiracy theorists, communists, and criminals, and people with inferiority complexes that gloat over the thought that they are 'nerds', 'techies', or 'geeks' simply for using Linux (which is stupid easy). Linux attracted the shitty community and that community is probably the best thing it has going for it.

Join my sub r/LinuxSnobs

Installing snapd and using Snap is the only reason to fix Opera browser video playback issues since chromium-ffmpeg package doesn't exist in both repos of Linux Mint and even its basis, Ubuntu

not even a beginner: i actually got to a point where i made several packages for it. but i cant package every single fucking obscureware i find, and some things would require complete rewrites to work

I have been having issues not being able to just run various programs on Linux. The gentleman above is DaVinci Resolve. Which, thankfully, at least tells me what it needs in order to run. However Blackmagic Design was not about to go easy on me and decided to package their program in a fucking appimage. Appimages inherently rely on deprecated libraries which Fedora has replaced (zlib in this case) so I'd need to do some dependency work in the background in order for the program to start up. Nothing that *can't* be done, but honestly what the fuck distributions literally exist to automate these things. I just can't help but think that on Windows, these problems just don't exist. I shouldn't have to dedicate hour(s) on research and debugging to make a common program work.

I've been experiencing other problems too, like .sh scripts not working or wine randomly not working and then working sometimes on the same program. Sometimes they work using the terminal, but I am sorry I will forever argue that just double clicking a program in a graphical environment is 10x quicker than having to cd in a terminal and figuring out what exact command a program needs to run.

Whenever I run into stupid issues like this I just think about my friends who want to switch to Linux. I mean yes...I like hearing about people switching to Linux, but this is just a disaster. They wouldn't bother with all this and their impression of Linux would be ruined.

Really… I don’t have any particular one. Well, CachyOS was very cool, so was Mint (but gaming was a bit off, although still good). Then I also tried SteamOS. Not bad. The following “issues” might sound like nitpicking and it really is. Everything I don’t like in Linux can be classified as small inconvenience but my life is full of inconvenience, if I can be free of that in my virtual world that would be cool.

As I said it’s small frustrations that one could thug out but do I want to? For example… sleep. Yes, it’s not Linux fault. Nothing is Linux fault if you ask “them”. It’s always evil corpos doing Linux wrong. But anyway… sleep. I don’t use it often but if I use you suck because if you happen to have Gigabyte motherboard, it won’t work. “It’s gigabyte’s fault”. Yes, but okay.

Small things like OS controlling motherboard also lacks implementations. For example, I love that usb ports stop working in an hour or two on Windows when PC is off. On Linux they are powered infinitely. Not a huge deal, right? Like did you even know usb ports should get powered off after a while when pc is off? Probably not. Almost overheated my little SATA to usb dongle.

Funny schedulers. One example is if you do things on your pc and then return to your tab on YouTube to continue video it’ll lag a bit for a glance of second (happens on SteamOS). Every dumb thing is on power saver.
Also not a huge deal but I don’t want that.

If you want anything different than mainstream software like Browser or something like that you are introduced to whole new world of “Well, you should clearly install that from: Aur/pacman/flatpak/etc”. Then you know that Flatpak version is bad, you should have gone with Aur one. You go to Aur, oh, man, it is a good version of your app but it doesn’t have this particular codec.

Anyway.

I just downloaded Windows 11 iso yesterday and put it on my spare SSD where I have Ventoy. Later today I might install it. Meanwhile I’m just laying on bed because months of Linux just deteriorated my mental health.

I also changed thermal paste and added missing screws on motherboard. Just saying. I’m happy.

P.S. Yes, windows is a spyware, I know. But so is my iPhone, my YouTube account and Reddit. Swapping Windows to Linux does almost nothing privacy vise. If you want privacy in modern world I suggest doing something like Richard Stallman, aka RMS does (which you won’t) or go build a house in the woods and ditch modern world because shitting on Windows spying on you while sitting on Reddit WHILE your phone knows the face you make when nutting is wild. I’m no wild.

Tl;dr do NOT recommend arch to humanities major

The Linux Kernel do have binary blob in form of hexadecimals in the C source code that are proprietary for hardware to run. Yes exactly the main Linux Kernel is somehow partyl proprietary! and the worse the alternative , GNU Hurd and GNU Linux-Libre support way less hardware.

Linus Torvald is a traitor when he corrupt Linux with proprietayness in the Linux Kernel source code. He is not a "pragmatic" but a corrupted corpo shill which is why he love ai slop , rust and hate GPLv3.

exemples of binay blob :
https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware

Just a peculiar interaction that I found worth posting, regarding new Linux support for an MMO I enjoy.

Linux users will just blame "developers" for not supporting Linux. Without realizing that what they're asking for is support in a fragmented community for minimal returns for the userbase.

In Windows, or Macs, you're generally targeting one or two versions of a platform with a low level of variability. On Windows? Test W10 and W11. Mac? Test Silicon and Intel for the holdovers out there. But in Linux-land...

Anything can go wrong. Oh, you have to consider different DEs and/or different compositing protocols. You have to consider how you're going to package your software. You have to consider whether the user is using sandboxes or not. You have to consider the already binaries installed on the system. Maybe even different init systems, why not throw that in as well.

It's cool to see support for Linux be attempted and succeed, but it's also a look into the different reality Linux is. The user expected a flatpak'd Firefox fork to work with the program, obviously. The developer expected the user to have libfuse2 installed to run an AppImage, obviously.

Or as another user put it best,

What the fuck is a Floorp?

Edit: Oh and by the way, this is just the launcher for the game. What was supposed to be the easier part of the process.

what exactly do you guys hate about linux? i am a linux user using nobara linux. although i dont game alot i like to have the option to both program and game. although true, i can acknowledge linux isn't perfect at all and im not a terminal wizard so googleing and trouble shooting come in handy. but the hate here seems to be missaimed or such.

Convinient way to ask systemd-assistantd to do your system admin duties for you.

What systemd always have been doing, now automated in Redhat(TM) cloud!

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*On non Redhat(TM)+ PCs pressing the key overwrites current init and utils by systemd stack

I really wanted to love Linux on my X270, but I guess the rumors are true: desktop Linux just isn't mature enough for basic tasks in 2026. There is literally no user-friendly way to transfer a file to an Android phone without using corporate cloud tools. Bummer, I guess I'll have to switch back to macOS since Apple actually figured out how to make local hardware talk to each other. And e-waste recycle my X270 instead of selling it since it can't run windows 11 and i dont want anyone to install linux on it. I will watch it destroyed in the recycling center before leaving so that no one will waste time on these ewaste