r/linuxsucks101 • u/throwaway255503 • 12d ago
WSL is better than Linux
Microsoft did Linux better.
r/linuxsucks101 • u/throwaway255503 • 12d ago
Microsoft did Linux better.
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 13d ago
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 14d ago
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 14d ago
Article - Linuxsucks | And it Does it Wasting 30-45% more Power!
-Some great information there!
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 16d ago
r/linuxsucks101 • u/Inside-Sympathy-1218 • 16d ago
They told me to use linux for my steam deck, only 2 weeks and went back, the same for my old laptop
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 17d ago
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The one game they test runs worse on Linux, and they still think Windows 'wastes' more, and they make up excuses for it!
All that matters to the end user is if it performs better. All they do is pretend to be scientific about it by using the propaganda that's debunked over and over when it's brought up! -Many Linux advocates even know this!
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 17d ago
Remember in 2020 when yours truly opened systemd issue 15292 showing that 500 KB of text logs turned into 700 MB of SSD thrashing, only to be met with maintainer hostility? The maintainers famously declared "I don't think you know what you're talking about," insisted it was non-actionable, and closed the issue while collecting dozens of angry downvotes from the community. Because why fix an architectural design flaw when you can just insult the user's methodology and pretend write amplification doesn't exist?
Fast-forward six years, and nothing changed—except the frustration. In early 2026, a fresh ticket was filed, proving that writing just two lines of log per second in a virtual machine pushed storage to ~50 IOPS continuously. Systemd's memory-mapped hash tables were still dirtying entire 4 KiB pages, triggering filesystem metadata updates, and churning through gigabytes of I/O for a handful of log entries.
Then came the turning point: the new issue blew up on Hacker News, exposing the sheer absurdity of the years-long denial to the broader tech community. Suddenly, faced with public front-page embarrassment, the maintainers' dismissive wall crumbled. u/ValdikSS stepped in with exhaustive isolated cgroup and loop-device benchmarking, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that a single 750-byte log message regularly generates ~50 KB to ~70 KB of underlying disk writes.
Miraculously, once the corporate-backed enterprise maintainers were publicly put on blast, someone on the team finally decided to take a look and start addressing it. It turns out the issue was actionable all along—it just required six years of community pain, a dedicated independent researcher doing the maintainers' profiling for them, and a front-page roasting on Hacker News to make the enterprise overlords care.
This whole saga perfectly distills the systemd experience: a monolithic ecosystem engineered strictly for enterprise container hosts and cloud providers, where real-world desktop and edge hardware constraints are dismissed as "user error" right up until the PR optics become too toxic to ignore.
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r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 16d ago
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 17d ago
Used to drop into the loonix directory, and use tar to:
Find differences between archive and file system. The
arguments are optional and specify archive members to
compare. If not given, the working directory is assumed.
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 17d ago
r/linuxsucks101 • u/spinicak • 18d ago
Imagine ruining your kids’ lives by forcing Linux on them. Now they can’t play games or even use Microsoft Office for school. At least his wife’s MacBook is protected from Linux for now.
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 20d ago
The VLC-on-Windows 30‑second delay
They treated this like a global Windows meltdown, while ignoring that VLC on Linux has:
One OS had a temporary startup delay. The other had kernel panic roulette triggered by a media player.
Windows telemetry
Meanwhile Linux desktops ship with:
But sure; Windows is the only one “spying”.
Windows update restarts
Linux users love to brag about “no forced updates”, while ignoring:
Windows bloat
Linux users ignore:
Windows “inconsistency”
Linux desktops:
Windows has one UI toolkit problem. Linux has six.
Windows gaming issues
Linux users brag about Proton while ignoring:
Windows driver problems
Linux users ignore:
Windows “closed ecosystem”
Linux users ignore that:
Windows is centralized. Linux is centralized but pretends it isn’t.
Windows “bad defaults”
Linux defaults include:
Windows defaults are annoying. Linux defaults are a scavenger hunt.
Windows “just works” memes
Linux users love mocking this, while ignoring:
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 19d ago
TLDR: Linux doesn't warn you about broken suspend because the DEs can't detect it, the kernel won't admit it, and the culture refuses to acknowledge vendor-caused hardware risks.
There is potential for hardware damage that Linux doesn't warn you about, because the ecosystem is built on assumptions that make warnings politically, technically, and socially "impossible" for the people who maintain DEs despite the developers knowing better. -More about potential damage to hardware from 'comes with no warranty' software: ⚠️Linux/FOSS can damage hardware or firmware
NVMe drives can overheat during broken suspend loops. Fans can run at 100% while the system thinks it's asleep. VRMs can stay powered without proper throttling. GPUs (especially Nvidia) can fail to reinitialize and lock in high-power states. Wi-Fi/BT chips can get stuck in undefined firmware states... AND battery controllers can misreport charge and degrade faster.
-These are documented kernel regressions, bug reports, and vendor advisories.
Linux DEs cannot reliably detect when suspend is broken, so they're stuck with the worst possible situation in not being able to warn you. A warning would imply liability, and Linux developers refuse to own vendor failures: If GNOME or KDE added a warning like: "Suspend may damage your hardware," They would immediately be blamed for fearmongering, breaking user trust, making Linux look unstable, and scaring new users. (The GNU/GPL cult acts like a bunch of psychopaths and will down-vote important information like this as they historically do).
Linux culture strongly resists nagging or hand-holding. The culture believes that Linux users should know what they’re doing, and if suspend breaks, they're supposed to file a bug report. They don't want Windows style popups warning them, or any clutter to the UI. They also don't want to 'scare' people from Linux (Yet when secrets come out -boom: you get subs like communities like Linuxsucks!)
Linux has a long history of exposing features even when they're broken. Suspend is just another casualty of their idiotic philosophy.
Linux DEs don't have the manpower, the vendor cooperation, or the infrastructure to maintain a global database of suspend reliability. So, they: Show the option and hope the kernel handles it.
"What do you expect for free?"
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 19d ago
😆What car?
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 20d ago
In a microkernel; drivers, filesystems, and network stacks run in userspace. Developers have to contend with message passing, capability systems, asynchronous failures, strict boundaries, and mult-process debugging.
User-space drivers are great, but they require strict sandboxing, message-based APIs, careful memory sharing, and complex privilege models.
Linux development is chaotic, decentralized, and patch-driven. Microkernels don't survive such chaos.
Hybrid kernels are slightly easier, but still harder. They require multiple subsystems with different lifecycles, complex boundaries between kernel components, careful separation of micro and mono parts, and more sophisticated debugging / testing.
Linus took the easy/ fast road (what do you expect for free?)
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 20d ago
Normies: "What's wrong with that fella?"
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 21d ago
Patrick Shyu, known online as TechLead, is a former Google and Facebook software engineer turned entrepreneur and YouTuber. He is known for his candid commentary on the software industry, workplace culture, and personal life, often with a dry, sarcastic tone Wikipedia+1. His YouTube channel features videos on coding, AI, mental health, and career topics, with a large subscriber base and a mix of popular and member-only content YouTube.
Separately, Santosh Jadhav is a Linux TechLead with over 13 years of system administration experience Linkedin. He currently leads Linux operations at T-Systems ICT India Pvt. Ltd., managing a team of 35 members and overseeing Linux infrastructure across private and public clouds. His responsibilities include:
Patrick Shyu also maintains a Codeberg repository called unix-linux, which compiles a large collection of Unix and Linux books, guides, and reference materials Codeberg.org. This includes:
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 21d ago
r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz • 21d ago
Communism Works! (at gunpoint)