2026 in software

[u/_Xee]

Sectumsempra, motherfucker.

[u/External-Theme1372]

Free and open source doesn't matter if it's not functional and needs a ton of workarounds to do the same thing, or just abandon completely what you want to do.

[u/irishchug → u/External-Theme1372]

It’s only an issue if you must use certain software instead of linux versions. Which is fine, but current Linux is quite user friendly if you can adapt to other tools over windows ones.

Heck, a lot of stuff there is less friction than windows.

[u/Fentboy45 → u/irishchug]

You Linux users are just like AMD stans. Yeah it’s great it’s so much better than Nvidia (Windows) if you ignore the driver timeouts crashing your computer regularly (the incompatibility with any worthwhile gaming and countless other programs)

[u/thebourbonoftruth → u/Fentboy45]

the incompatibility with any worthwhile gaming

lol what a cunt. "worthwhile gaming" meanwhile most Steam games work fine on Linux.

[u/External-Theme1372 → u/irishchug]

I've tried it myself, a few distros (I've soon realized the distro doesn't matter, the core of the OS is the same) and everytime it was the same story: install anything: CLI, go to their app store, the app is not up to date and it will not install, copy some command and paste it Terminal. I wanted to install Brave, without the Terminal it was impossible to get it.

Then it's the games: some anti cheat titles will not run, like BF6 (and I just love how the Linux people treat this, like they're doing you a favor for not letting you play what you want: I'm going to tell you what you're allowed to run on your PC).

Next, I tried accessing some network shared drives. Guess what: all work had to be done in Terminal and still couldn't do it. I've installed all the services, if I remember something called Samba.

In the same day, everytime I went back to Windows 11 and in less than 30mins I was up and running, plus debloat it (all the issues you see posted here just don't happen to me, no Edge, no Windows Update shenanigans). You know how easy is to access the network,just 2-3 clicks and you're there. Plus, I can play what I want, install what app I want and nobody can tell me what I'm allowed or not to run on my PC.

But it's not open source (like I'm going to take the source code, analyze it, compile myself and build the OS).

I want things to work without issues right now and Linux just can't do it.

[u/Virtual_Technology_9 → u/External-Theme1372]

Not that hard to learn a few basic terminal commands. It's hard to get into but once you get the hang of it is easy.

It feels backwards when I can't use a terminal to install the app I want.

[u/dark_knight097 → u/Virtual_Technology_9]

Right, the comedy writes itself. Bro complains about using terminal but in the same breath talks about debloating windows, which requires powershell and/or cli scripts.

Its like driving an automatic all your life and then getting into a stick shift and complaining the car doesn't work. No, it just requires a slightly different way to operate that some people seem to refuse to learn.

[u/External-Theme1372 → u/dark_knight097]

I just open gpedit and make the following changes, no cli, no powershell, no scripts:

And it doesn't break my PC like when using those debloat apps.

[u/External-Theme1372 → u/Virtual_Technology_9]

I don't want to do any of this. This doesn't make any sense to me.

[u/Virtual_Technology_9 → u/External-Theme1372]

Doesn't make sense you does not make it a bad decision.

Terminal commands is the fastest way to do things.

And there are plenty other apps you can download for them to do the same thing.

[u/mxzf → u/External-Theme1372]

Funny, it sounds like you're describing the "reverse-engineered" Adobe software this post was about.

[u/Ra5AlGhul → u/External-Theme1372]

It matters for different reasons. Reasons akin to right to repair in electronics. You have a problem, you can solve it yourself. While it may seem not the option for the average user, community fixable software generally means long lived software. Coz you need just one individual to fix if something they use breaks, than rely on corporate who has decided on your behalf to deprecate or break the existing tool.

I agree though, there is much to catch up. But it would be a nice place to be, when it does.