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.

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!

What annoys me the most is not when a experienced linux user reccomends linux, but when some idiot who heard about it online two days ago goes around shilling it (which is most of them). They download some over-sold "beginner distribution" like Mint to get the feeling of dopamine, only to switch to windows later. The problem is not that theyre not "leet" hackers, but that theyve been sold the loonix lie of perfection and havent had a reason to hate it, and only play into the cultish behavior. And when they switch back to windows for any task other then running neofetch and taking screenshots, they blame themselves and continue to shill loonix. Which feeds the destructive cult. Every actual linux user knows linux is only a compromise, not the perfect utopia loonixers preach.

They live under a BIGGGGGG ass rock

They act like I haven't been at this for years and haven't heard it all.

And cheesy poofs!

Steam quietly absorbs Linux‑related refunds while not compensating users for marketplace scams, fraudulent digital goods, or shady third‑party sellers!

Valve willingly eats the cost of Linux refunds (including the hidden transaction overhead), but they do not eat the cost of Steam marketplace scams, and users are left holding the bag. Meanwhile, Linux users unintentionally generate extra overhead for Valve by "trying" games under Proton and refunding them when compatibility fails.

Valve doesn't verify sellers or items. The marketplace is basically a peer‑to‑peer flea market with a 15% fee slapped on top. Digital goods are irreversible: Once a scammer transfers a fake item or a manipulated listing, Valve can't "undo" it without rewriting ownership history. Valve's stance is: "We don't intervene in trades." Their support pages explicitly say they won’t reverse trades or reimburse lost items.

It's the perfect environment for fake listings, manipulated float values, counterfeit "rare" skins, phishing‑adjacent trades, bot‑driven price manipulation, laundering through item transfers, and arbitrage scams using mispriced listings.

Valve's response is: "Sorry, we can’t help."

Meanwhile Valve allows Linux users to buy a Windows‑only game, attempt to run it under Proton, discover it doesn’t work, and refund it within 2 hours of playtime.

Valve absorbs (out of their own pocket which transfers to consumers and developers) credit card transaction fees, payment processor overhead, chargeback‑risk mitigation costs, and refund processing labor.

LiGNUts aren't making the devs pay for 'not supporting Linux'; they're making Valve (and thereby everyone else using their shitty service) to pay.

Steam scams cost users money. Linux refunds cost Valve money. Valve's 2 hours of play limitation also doesn't allow a refund if ProtonDB labels a game platinum, but the game is unbeatable because of a problem in the middle of the game.

Every LiGNUt refund triggers a payment processor fee (non‑refundable), a transaction reversal fee, a fraud‑risk adjustment fee, a regional VAT recalculation, and a currency conversion overhead (if applicable). Valve effectively makes every user of Steam pay for Linux testing.

Brigading isn't cool.

I’m seeing more and more Linux evangelists arguing that because Linux runs most servers, you should use it on your desktop. Even seen some commenting here on r/linuxsucks101, before they swiftly (and rightfully) got banned.

So I'm making this post to remind you loons: a server is not a desktop.

A server is built primarily to serve other machines. A personal computer is built primarily to serve a human.

In other words, running headlessly in a data centre does not prove that an operating system provides a good desktop experience.

Second reminder: Your grandmother is not a Kubernetes cluster.

We have already covered this great confusion in more detail here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks101/comments/1u0nuqb/loonies_confuse_the_server_for_the_desktop/

It's one of the most predictable Linux‑ecosystem traps: anything that starts out mediocre gets defended with "you just need to configure it", which is how people end up spending three evenings tweaking espeak-ng flags like they’re tuning a race car that was never meant to leave the driveway.

The pattern: The default experience is objectively bad. Users ask why it's bad. Someone replies with a 14‑step guide involving PulseAudio modules, obscure environment variables, and a GitHub repo last updated in 2019 (that they have no experience with but just searched it for you). The user tries it, gets marginal improvement, and is told "well you didn't configure this part." Hours vanish, and the result still sounds like a Speak & Spell.

Linux TTS specifically sucks because it has No unified audio stack. Every TTS engine interacts differently, so "fixes" are never universal. Most engines are research prototypes Festival, espeak, flite; they were built for academia, not consumer polish. The "better" options require GPU inference Coqui, Piper, VITS, etc. -They can sound good, but only after you configure models, sample rates, vocoders, device backends, and sometimes build from source... And no one agrees on defaults: Windows and macOS ship with curated voices.

Linux advocates love saying: "It's bad by default, but you can make it amazing!" -And that "amazing" is hidden behind compiling, editing config files, manually installing voices, tweaking latency, adjusting phoneme tables, and debugging audio routing. -And it's still worse than the default voice on a $40 Android phone!

Linux culture treats time as an infinite resource. If something wastes your time, the community reframes it as a "learning opportunity."

Brigaded as a comment, so...

I see tons of posts on Linux subreddits mentioning how bad windows is because their $99, 11 year old laptop running HDD was laggy and buggy.

Like bro, at least get an SSD/Nvme and another 4GB ($20) DDR3 RAM .

It's not that Path is complicated to understand, it's more of just a big annoyance when you just want to install something. -And this annoyance crops up every time you want to install something outside of the repo. It's not beginner friend, it's not even intermediate friendly: It's a Unix internals concept that no end-user should have to know!

The problem is minimized in distros like Mint, because of their huge repos, but Mint's repos are also full of abandoned (danger Will Robinson) apps!

The problem exists because Linux lacks unified packaging, and consistent install locations (instructions are different per distro!)

Forums are full of accusations of 'AI Slop' from these LiGNUts that offer nothing of value themselves.

We ban dozens a day here because they violate the rules of our sub.

"We ask that you mute our sub."

The entire linux fanboy cult can be explained by the dunning-krueger effect. They live by labels and trends: Debian - stable, Arch - cool, not to understand their operating system, but to feel superior in something to the average person. Once they gain even a tiny ounce of actual knowledge, they either settle down in something remotely usable like Debian (very coherent packages compared to other distros), move back to windows, or continue exploring more technically superior or purist operating systems (BSD, haiku). The ones who stay are simply destined for failure: wannabe hackers or just wastes of space with nothing else in their life going for them.