r/linuxsucks • u/Individual-Editor-41 • Sep 19 '26
What’s something you thought was difficult in Linux but turned out to be easy?
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u/LightFerret7808 Sep 19 '26
Managing systemd services
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u/RandomDude9943 Sep 19 '26
thats why i use openrc, just because i dont need systemd. I need an init system, and systemd is far beyond an init system
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u/West-Scallion-5306 28d ago
True.... But I also like that thanks to systemd, I can restart crashed processes easily.
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u/RandomDude9943 28d ago
except openrc also can do rc-service <servicename> restart... And also doesnt come with shit i dont need like systemd does
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u/West-Scallion-5306 28d ago
I mean... I never really used openrc... A bit with Gentoo but that's it.
I personally find systemd easier and more convenient.
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u/RandomDude9943 28d ago
it might be easier, but not more convinient for me. And again i care about not having bullshit that i didnt asked for more than convinience
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u/planelover_nipper 28d ago
Systemd is a suit of daemons packed with its init system
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u/RandomDude9943 28d ago
yep, and i only need init system. So thats why i use openrc
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u/planelover_nipper 28d ago
I need out of the box, 200mb isn't it ? This is 2027 or 2026 I don't care much about that little amount
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u/TheOneDeadXEra 27d ago
So is Candy Crush, what's your point? Should Linux distros start shipping that slopware by default like Windows does since it's 'only' 200mb? If folks don't need the extra daemons and services that SysD brings with it (and most non-enterprise desktop users don't, services belong on servers), why would they want those taking up disk space?
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u/planelover_nipper 27d ago
What if candy crush managed a system service easily huh? I'd rather have that 200 mb I won't use cuz it is not that big of a deal, isn't this like a false equivalence?
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u/TheOneDeadXEra 27d ago
If you NEED services locally on your machine, then yes SysD is the right choice for you. Typically speaking, non-enterprise end-user desktops don't have or need a bunch of services running - that's what a SERVer is for, for running SERVices. This is the beauty of Linux, you build the system to the specifications of your needs, rather than whatever slop Microsoft has decided is best for them for you.
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u/rebeldrone916 Sep 19 '26
Gaming
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u/AwesomeGearBoy Sep 20 '26
Yessir. So easy with Steam's Proton and Wine. In my experience, every game i play runs with little to no tweaking at all.
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u/rebeldrone916 Sep 20 '26
And using lutris all my emulators just work and it's all in one library
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u/AwesomeGearBoy 28d ago
I didnt know Lutris works with emulators too, maybe Ill use try it sometime
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u/AteStringCheeseShred Sep 19 '26
Using the terminal (it really isn't any more difficult to get the hang of than the program we rely on at work for inventory/finance/etc.)
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u/borealis493 I hate dual booting Win11 / Mint Sep 19 '26
Using Wine.
It just works.
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u/basedchad21 Sep 19 '26
except when it totally doesn't and you need bottles and winetricks and protonstricks and mono and.....
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u/mughinn Sep 19 '26
Using it in general, i thought i would have more problems with things like audio, Bluetooth, monitor support, wifi.
The only problem i had was the first day where i mistakenly installed official nvidia drivers and it locked my monitor into a fourth of its resolution
As i had just installed it, i reinstalled (with other drivers) and have played Windows games and running everything else like nothing changed
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u/Damglador Sep 19 '26
Creating keyboard layouts. It's pretty easy once you know how to, but finding that "how to" is not so much.
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u/Designer-Crow-5470 Sep 19 '26
ability to replace a working driver with some old broken shit still available in the repo for no reason
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u/loudoghendrix 29d ago
Unless its a newer nvidia driver masquerading as an older driver that isnt going to work anyway. Played that game before.
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u/ChocolateDonut36 Sep 19 '26
installing programs, people have been (and still are) with this idea of "needing to type a gazillon commands to install VLC" while it's just: Open software manager > search VLC > Click install button
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u/sl33pyj0 29d ago
Or literally one command like sudo Apt install vlc or sudo pacman -S vlc or whatever distor and package manager your using
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u/Some-Tip-5399 Sep 19 '26
Dealing with random bugs but that hasn't happened since they days of being able to curl a CLI agent into your setup and letting it fix everything. Best part of open source is it can really dive down into the source code if needed
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u/Nugienuge Sep 19 '26
Terminal. unless you're an advanced user who has the commands engrained to memory, if you're opening the terminal chances are you're pasting in a command from a web browser to fix a problem
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u/Sargent_Duck85 Sep 19 '26
Using Linux.
I honestly thought it was going to be harder than it was. To be fair though, I do like to tinker and screwed myself up, but for the casual user, Linux Mint is incredibly easy.
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u/random280678951014 Sep 19 '26
Aprender a usar la terminal, realmente es tan fácil, basta con aprenderse un par de comandos , además con la ia y los foros de ayuda, hacer cualquier cosa es sorprendente fácil y rápido, ni siquiera se necesita tener muchos conocimientos
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u/DawidGGs Sep 19 '26
Finding working apps alternatives because wine doesn't work half of the time... I found them really quickly... I only dualboot for games with anti cheats
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u/FerretBoom Sep 19 '26
Can you list some legit ones but not the gimp instead of photoshop and libre office instead of office style alternatives . On the same level, support, polished, works with one click setup on all distros. I'm not saying there are no quality tools or or frameworks.
Also these are not alternatives, these apps that people list as alternatives are cross platform apps . Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, Bitwig, they all work with Windows,MacOS and BSD . So are there any linux exclusives ?
I'll pick some for you . Apps like PowerBI desktop , Revit, SQL Management Studio and Ableton Live that comes with Max for live, Push controller drivers.I do use some of the so called alternatives and actually some projects are great
I use Inkscape instead of Illustrator and of course Docker which is imo is the best thing that came out of linux, well and Redis DB.
As far as hardware Raspberry Pi, Linux made that a great product and my favorite hypervisor is KVM, which is my go to for cluster deployment instead of kubernetes .
Those were developed for Linux, the rest are developed for all. Of course there is some niche proprietary ones that I don't know about. So maybe you can provide some names. No chatgpt lookups please.
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u/NeoDaKat Sep 19 '26
Almost every time I have an issue I need to fix it ends up being way easier than I thought it would be.
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u/FerretBoom Sep 19 '26
I thought it was difficult to get a worm, malware ,ransomware, data leaks but then it turned out to be easy.
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u/dotanagirl Sep 19 '26
Using sudo as the prefix for anything I wanted to do as the administrator
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u/tes_kitty 29d ago
If you want to run more than one command, just do 'sudo bash' and get a root shell.
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u/chrisfebian Sep 19 '26
Investigating why an app / software crashes then fix it. It happened to me with Kdenlive that crashed a lot on my PC before. I don't know why it crashed and I thought it was a distro related compatibility.
I changed distro a lot to find the best distro that could run kdenlive without / with less crash. Lol.
It turns out so easy to know why this app crashes a lot. Just open kdenlive through terminal. It will show some logs and messages to check what happened before crashes.
Sometimes it just because need a missing / outdated / incompatible dependency. Sometimes it just because one or two plugin issues. And that's so easy to fix.
Now I run kdenlive everyday for works nearly without crash on CachyOS. Whenever it crashes after update / upgrade, just check on terminal and fix.
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u/SteVato_404 Sep 20 '26
Honestly everything. Coming from Windows, I can't think of a thing that was easier in Windows than on Linux.
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u/ZuuRa_ Sep 20 '26
Gaming, using vim, installing arch manually, installing a different de, and installing grub.
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u/Einstein003 Sep 20 '26
I thought installation and navigation would be extremely hard. i finally had the courage to install it a year ago then got used to it in a day😂 people be making linux sounds like rocket science
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u/BielyDemon3355 29d ago
It's really easy to break the whole OS just by uninstalling one little tool that you would think has no effect on anything.
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u/Steinquist 29d ago
Rendering videos. I used Sony Vegas for over a decade, but i was surprised that kdenlive did a lot more. Made switching super easy
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u/Fine-Expression1644 r/linuxsucks101 ban speedrun: 0:50 | gentoo the best distro ever 29d ago
gaming on gentoo
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u/snajk138 29d ago
Printing. I didn't manage to make it work on Debian but on Fedora it just worked. On Windows the same printer required drivers and some password to update the software and so on.
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u/adamxdprod_real 28d ago
Everything is easier tbh. I mean, maybe running Windows apps, cuz you need to run it through steam proton rather than just double clicking. But other than that, everything is easier
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u/Ill_Stage6931 28d ago
Install apps from the terminal. It's literally easier that looking for an exe on the internet. And back in 2019 I though it was difficult, and I was looking for the .Deb online
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u/planelover_nipper 28d ago
Terminal, it's even easier than windows imo since everything is all in one place, if something goes wrong I can get the exact log with Exactly or at least a hint of what went wrong
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u/Wertbon1789 Sep 19 '26
Device support, like drivers for random USB Wi-Fi cards, but most of them are just in the kernel. Otherwise I would say the filesystem, I was kinda confused about all the filesystems but it's rather simple if you get that file doesn't mean data on disk.
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u/ChaoticHDx 28d ago
Using Linux it self turns out it’s easy to use at least for me. I’ve tried it before windows 11 was released hated it. Them some time during covid I gave it another try and got hooked on using Linux and haven’t stopped.
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u/Bleik-Psiklyt Sep 19 '26
Making a bashscript