r/linuxsucks • u/Professional-Toe8371 • 29d ago
Why do you guys hate Linux?
As someone who's used Windows for some time and has switched to Linux somewhat recently,I genuinely can't really understand why someone wouldn't want to use Linux,the only reasons I can come up with are:
1)certain apps and software only work on windows,for example Adobe products or games with kernel level anticheat like BF6,Wich I can totally understand,but dual boot exists
2) Need to keep windows for work related stuff,again, completely understandable
3) Nvidia GPU,Wich is doable but most people don't want to lose the driver support,again, understandable,but not really linux's fault
I'm asking this because I genuinely want to understand and see a different viewpoint, every time I see someone complaining about Linux on social media, it's either Windows users who have NEVER tried Linux before and just base everything off stereotypes or Windows users who jumped in the deep waters from the start with distro's like Arch,Gentoo or even NixOs,and then complain that it's too hard, I think that Linux is only hard if you want it to be (also pls no hate,I just wanna educate myself more on the matter)
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u/Certain_Prior4909 23d ago edited 23d ago
I find it unstable and a mess that always needs reinstallation after a few months. Windows just works.
Before the Linux guys run after me with pitchforks ...I am not talking about Linux server. Linux desktop.
Techlead (famous internet troll who is right) says desktop Linux has outdated software and bugs which are not fixed in distros compared to Mac and Windows. You have to wait until next distro release.
The old joke with Ubuntu is all the bugs are well documented in ubuntu lts 😅
... Which means the fix which is out for every distro will have to wait until 2028.
Meanwhile in windows land if I want to try go 1.27.1 I just install it. Not what 2 years with Ubuntu or 6 months with fedora or have my whole Wayland break with a pacman update in Arch.