i hate package manager culture ,i like having exes or binaries directly(even some appimages need libs installed from package manager). i like having backwards compatibility with dynamically linked apps.
and like having gui for vast majority of settings.
and generally being able to install stuff without any repo Maintainer building it for me. and having any app or hardware or game without thinking if it will work or not.
since my usage of computer is piracy heavy,pirating windows enterprise,office,acrobat,all my games etc windows is best option for that.
Forking. “We can do it better.” x10 = nothing gets done as well as it could because egos and ADHD.
Who do you think builds the executables for you? Your computer? Yourself? You sound ignorant as fuck. All computers these days are just running shit other people make and maintain.
I don’t think this is rage-baiting, it’s an opinion being asked of something that a lot of people on the fediverse apparently, can’t handle criticism on their favorite thing. But it’s okay for them to constantly dog on anyone who uses windows or apple. Fair, right? /s
Anyways, there’s numerous things I don’t like about Linux.
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Distro Hell. Linux’s strength is also its weakness. There’s a distro for anyone for any purpose. However, there’s also division among distros and the overwhelming amount of choice as to which one will fit your needs. Some will leave you high and dry, others will help you, some with poor documentation, some you have to google things for .etc I mean, it’s a pick your poison kind of deal.
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The Entitled Community - As I lightly referenced, Linux snobs are as insufferable as your Apple fanboy and your Windows apologist. I mean, Ubuntu marketed itself as “an operating system for humans”. If that isn’t huffing your own farts to get a high, I don’t know what is.
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Still can’t run everything from Windows, not without Wine or other methods. We’ve got gaming down to a tee for Linux and some strong candidates for alternatives in open source software from the main closed-source software. But, yeesh, we are still far and away from being able to comfortably use what we use in Windows to Linux.
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Terminal Hell. I used to have said a lot in the past that if you can’t distinguish a repository from a depository in the realm of Linux, then you don’t have a good chance. You’re going to do an awful lot from the terminal from updating to moving files to all sorts of things. This is the part where people who use Linux feel like a tech god of sorts because of how many things they can do from the terminal. It’s about as impressive as cracking Windows.
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I’ve read it three times, but your message makes no sense at all to me. I’ll file it under rage-bait.
(i’ll bite a little in response to the title … flatpack & snap )
it does make sense. it only doesn’t make sense if one thinks linux is best os ever.
which isn’t true.
And there we have it …
You don’t have a question but you have a rant. Why the disguise ?
Just post “I love windows more than linux” TUX does not care and won’t feel hurt. We like you to use what makes you happy and/or works for you.
Not really Linux’s fault, but I’m frustrated that Proton is being seen as a replacement for official native support. I’m glad Proton exists as a bridge to help bring users over, but I’m disappointed whenever I hear developers say they’re not gonna bother porting because of Proton.
pirating windows enterprise,office,acrobat,all my games
You can replace that with Linux, LibreOffice, any PDF reader, and Wine.
Oh yeah, how is Wine gaming going? It was meh like a year or two ago.
Quite good actually, once someone takes the time to explain you the pair of extra steps no one mentions because the “they’ll figure it out” philosophy of Linux.
I will dig in my inbox history and try to find the post that taught me how to do it.
The steam deck has changed the game (badum-tish!) for compatibility. A huge amount of games now run on Linux through wine / proton now.
Neat!
The slow march of FOSS continues.
I’ve been daily driving linux for two years. Just upgraded to Ubuntu Cinnamon 26.04LTS from 24.04LTS, I edit video, stream game video, and found nothing I need to work that doesn’t. Proton has been a game changer. Right before the upgrade I shrunk my windows partition to around 500 gb on my 4tb nvme after uninstalling all the games and most of the utilities on it.
I ran WoW back around 2005 on Linux but it was constantly breaking and a lot of stuff didn’t work right or wouldn’t stay working. I have dabbled here and there over the years but always had problems come up.
I’m not a gamer myself but Bazzite seems to do a hell of a job there
You may have heard of this little project called Steam.
Yep. A lot of stuff was Windows-only on Steam, and from what I’ve heard, some of the Linux versions were iffy.
and deal with the package manager culture? no thanks.
You will fit in perfectly over here https://lemmy.world/c/linuxsucks
thnx you for this … I’ve been milling over the similarities too … I would not be surprised if ‘wall’ is just another account from ‘madthumbs’
What do you mean by “package manager culture”?
I have to say having used Linux for years there’s not much I hate about it anymore, it is very stable now in my experience. Maybe a bit of a learning curve still but once you are over that it is very hard to go back to Windows.
Package managers, in particular, are one of my favourite aspects of it. Instead of having to hunt down a .exe from some random website that may or may not be the genuine one you just
pacman -Sorapt installand get a version you can trust (as much as you can trust any third party software) and all dependencies resolved automatically.I guess the Xorg -> Wayland thing has been a bit annoying in that a lot of stuff broke at first and has only gradually started to work again or be replaced by Wayland-native equivalents. And although Wayland has some clear advantages over Xorg there are definitely trade-offs.
Gaming is still a bit limited, Steam and Proton have made great progress but I still struggle to get some games running. But I’m not a serious gamer, and Linux has plenty of games available both natively and through Wine/Proton.
You like .exe’s but want to install stuff without someone building it… uh. Do we have to talk about where baby’s come from? They don’t just poof into existence
If you want the enjoy malware ridden garbage that is built only to sell every piece info stolen from you, by all means enjoy.
Not having all the unneeded libraries pre-installed keeps the OS lightweight and reduces malware attack surface. If you are too lazy to learn a bit of basic knowledge about how the OS works, that is on you, not the Linux ecosystem.
I hate that I can’t get my VST plugins working at all. Like, none of them.
it’s time to vibecode your own reverse engineered versions of them
It’s a monokernel that was already outdated when written, and has basically been hacked to do modern things. When Linus retires, maintaining it is going to get difficult.
Systemd is really common, but not ideal. I’m running it now, and it works fine. But, for how long? The Unix philosophy exists for a reason!
That being said, what you’re talking about exists on Linux. You don’t have to use packages or package managers. If you have a bespoke, personal system to keep track of the versions and dependencies, the kernel and other low-level components (cue the “if I can interject” meme) can run your pile of naked executables just fine.
The same thing goes for BSD, and GNU Mach once it’s ready to “daily drive”. And, yes, there are GUI settings managers, although they vary.
Within the system itself (design/architecture wise or programmatically or whatever), absolutely nothing. But some distros’ elitist, toxic, gatekeeping communities do disturb me.
I agree but its not a hate on linux. I have not had to configure outside of the gui for anything I have done and I use appman although I do use a manager for it that is command line. There are some gui managers but I don’t like any as much.
