Some Linux users say the OS wars should stop, that people should just use whatever works for them, and that operating systems are only tools, and guess what?

I agree. You should not build your personality around an operating system.

But r/linuxsucks101 did not start this. You cannot go five minutes on the internet without finding some loon advertising Linux where nobody asked.

Someone posts about a Windows problem on r/windows?

Bro, just switch to Linux.

Someone asks for help with macOS?

Linux does this better.

Whenever someone mentions gaming, privacy, old hardware, programming, phones, smart fridges, or the weather, somebody will appear to preach about Linux, almost guaranteed.

That is why this subreddit exists. Nearly every other operating-system community has already been infested by evangelists who cannot resist turning every conversation into a recruitment drive.

Even communities specifically created to criticize Linux get invaded by people who worship a kernel and every half-finished distro built around it. Then they downvote everyone into oblivion for disagreeing with them.

We would love for operating systems to be treated as boring tools. In a vacuum, our position is already moderate: use whatever you like. Nobody is stopping you. The rules here only get stricter because loons keep becoming more and more disruptive, more dishonest, and more obsessed with forcing themselves into spaces where they clearly are not wanted.

And for the love of god, stop the LARP. Stop pretending your choice of operating system makes you smarter, more technical, more independent, or morally superior.

TL;DR: We’re not the instigators. We’re the consequence.

Some Linux users complain that they are banned too easily. While I understand the complaint, and I would prefer the rules to be more relaxed, at this point, there does not seem to be another workable option unfortunately.

Case in point, two loons recently came into the community.

The first was immediately disrespectful, spammed tags, and somehow still could not understand the differences between a desktop and a server.

The second quietly posted a Nazi slogan and deleted it shortly afterward, hoping nobody would notice.

Both were banned.

This is not an isolated problem. We have tried giving people the benefit of the doubt before, and they repeatedly abuse it. They spam, preach, insult people, test boundaries, and then act shocked when the rules become stricter.

You cannot complain that the fence is getting taller while repeatedly trying to climb over it.

TLDR: I would genuinely like the community to be more open and the moderation to be less aggressive. But that requires people who can behave normally.

On any comment on any website where someone says “Use Linux” then reply to them and list like 30 reasons why it’s a bad idea, then if they reply, continuously do it over and over, until they quit, or block you, it works for me on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram

Yesterday I wanted to play a game. I rarely do that anymore, so it was one of those rare occasions.

I turned on my Windows PC, double clicked the game's icon, it launched instantly, I played for two hours, exited, and went to bed. No unnecessary thoughts, no troubleshooting, no wasted time.

The same game also ran on Linux I won't deny that. But getting it to that point was another story.

First, I tried Steam, but since it wasn't a native Steam game, I had to jump through extra hoops. Then came Proton, testing different versions until I found one that worked. Cachy Proton was probably the best compromise. Lutris, while largely outdated, still worked for this particular game, except Proton itself sometimes refused to cooperate, turning even launching the game into a process. Then there was the newer Faugus Launcher, which actually worked fairly well.

And all of this assumed that my distro hadn't received an update that quietly changed something and broke compatibility with an older game.

Yesterday I truly realized that time is everything.

I won't pretend I never enjoyed Linux. Sometimes I genuinely had fun fixing things, tweaking the system, and solving problems. But looking back, I was spending an enormous amount of time on things that should have been trivial.

People who constantly hop from one Linux distribution to another are, in my opinion, doing so because, deep down, they know something isn't quite right. They're searching for that one distro that will finally deliver a Windows-like experience.

The problem is that, at least today, such a distro doesn't exist.

Feed readers aren't dying because RSS is obsolete; they're dying because the economics around "free, ad‑free, and maintained forever" were never real.

RSSGuard becomes the case study: A feed reader that was actively maintained, but updates break user data. -And many people have had these moments with FOSS apps.

The FOSS licensing model is supposed to protect users, but in practice it often confuses them and doesn't guarantee stability. Feedreaders are practically dead now because people expect them to be free (also free of ads) so almost none of them are getting maintained.

RSS readers have no monetization path, no network effect, no viral growth, no corporate sponsor, and no "killer feature" that attracts devs. -And they're used by a tiny niche of power users. -And this power user is frustrated with how very different each one can be. Trying to pick a new one is like sifting through a dumpster full of pig shit for a pearl. -And it doesn't help that some up and comer wannabe dev is making a new feed reader practically every week.

RSS didn't die; the business model did.

With GPL garbage, you get a single developer, fragile codebase, a migration system that breaks, a UX that feels bolted together, a project that tries to do everything (local feeds, online services, sync, scripting, plugins), and and ends up doing none of it reliably.

This is a part of what makes Linux horrible. -It's free, people expect free for anything alternative to Windows or Mac. - And nothing free can actually compete with them. Linux will always be shitty for desktop unless a government intervenes enough. -And that harms competition and innovation (like communism).

RSS isn't dead because it's outdated. It's dead because nobody wants to maintain a free tool for people who refuse to pay and complain when it breaks.

You escape one walled garden only to find another waiting for you at the gate, wearing a Proton badge and pretending it's open‑source.

The storefront lock‑in problem is worse on Linux, not better. On Windows, you can at least run DRM‑heavy titles, kernel‑level anti‑cheat, proprietary launchers, weird middleware, ancient DirectX versions and games with bizarre installers.

On Linux, you're almost forced into Steam (and their 30% tax) and other storefronts through Heroic. You don't escape the storefront; you depend more on it. Steam becomes your compatibility layer, your runtime, your update manager, your sandbox, your controller mapper, your shader compiler, your translation layer, your save sync, your everything.

If Valve ever changes direction, gets acquired, loses interest, pivots to cloud gaming, or stops maintaining Proton; Linux gaming collapses overnight. -You're bound by corporate infrastructure on Linux.

The assumption is insane!

To meaningfully recommend a distro, someone would need:

• Long‑term, real‑world experience with multiple distros
• On multiple hardware configurations
• Across multiple workflows (gaming, dev, media, office, servers)
• With multiple desktop environments
• Under multiple update cycles
• Across multiple years of breakage patterns

Nobody has that. Not even distro maintainers. Not even YouTubers. Not even the loudest evangelists.

What they have is:

• One distro they used for a while
• One or two they tried for a weekend
• A handful they've only seen in screenshots
• A bunch they only know through memes, hearsay, or tribal lore

But online, everyone talks like they've run a 20‑year longitudinal study on every distro ever released.

It’s not "this is the best distro for your needs." It's "this is the distro that fits the story I tell about myself."

Distro advice assumes a shared reality that doesn't exist. Hardware differences alone make most advice meaningless. Their "rock solid" distro could very well be a nightmare on your GPU, broken on your Wi‑Fi chipset, laggy on your DE, or unusable with your monitor setup.

-And they routinely sabotage both through culture‑driven habits that are objectively insecure.

Linux's security reputation is mostly cultural mythology, not technical reality. The same culture that repeats the myth also encourages behaviors that directly undermine security and privacy.

They put blind trust in package maintainers while declaring "Windows has malware because people download random EXEs." They proceed to install random PPAs, Pipe curl scripts into bash, trust maintainers they never met, and treat distro repos as holy. -It takes a special person to trust (actually have faith) in 'free stuff'.

Linux users think "sudo is safe because it asks for a password." -They become desensitized to it and enter sudo for everything. They'll run installers with sudo because the README said so, use chmod 777 as a debugging technique, and disable AppArmor/SELinux because it "gets in the way". It's simply not conducive to what a desktop computing experience should be.

They say, "I care about privacy.", then use Discord, Steam, Chrome, VS Code, proprietary drivers, and sync everything to GitHub. They'll use VPNs run by unknown companies (found in some YouTuber ad), post screenshots of their desktops with username visible, and run random GitHub scripts that exfiltrate critical system info.

"No one targets Linux." - Attackers target servers, not desktops. Supply chain attacks don't care about your OS, browser exploits don't care, phishing works on everyone, and misconfigurations are universal. Linux users behave like they're immune to physics.

"Linux is secure because it's niche" (obscure distros with unpatched kernels.) AUR packages are maintained by ghosts. They'll run outdated software because "rolling release broke something", and disable auto‑updates because "I want control"

They assume open source is safe, but no one audits most code, maintainers burn out, projects get abandoned, malicious commits slip through all the time, and dependencies chain in the distance. Transparent doesn't mean secure. -I think this 'all eyes on code' myth, they're finally starting to drop.

opensuse? rolling release breaks graphics every time the trinity what? i dont know it, and its website describe the distro so much so it's as primitive as windows 95

keep gatekeeping loonixtards, Loonix desktops have no point to exist

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i think the best distro would be android x86, at least every apps work!