Linux

I hate that I've got to the point that if something goes wrong, I know it's 99.9% user error and can't blame anyone else.

My one major complaint is audio in general. I've had so many audio issues. If you need an eq or noise canceling it's a pain to get it working. There's always a bug somewhere, always a random distortion.

Voicemeeter is the only thing I miss about Windows. I really do.

People having politics arguments on FOSS fora or mailing lists. We have a basic interest in open source in common, why are there additional purity tests being applied to people who don't act "sufficiently" left wing? Or, equally as often, why are you throwing around playground insults like a 14 year old and discussing conspiracy theories?

Basically people not behaving respectfully to others.

I don't know if I agree with the issue of installing software. Sure, there are a lot of ways to do it, but it's better than navigating to a website, downloading an executable, and having it install for you. There's too many points for error to cause issues. Plus, you have to do that for every update usually.

Is it perfect on Linux? No. It's better than Windows though.

I miss executable files being as easy as on windows

I have spent way too much time fiddling with audio, both in PulseAudio and Pirewire. Granted, this sucks even more on Windows.

Weird how my absolute favorite thing about Linux is how easy and simple installing software is, at least on Arch. Never touched a flatpack or snap or whatever else they're called for my 13+ years if use.

Ever clicked an icon in the taskbar and received a notification that the window was "ready" but it's still behind other windows? This shit drives me up the wall.

Booting problems. Every once in a while, I get GRUB for no reason. Can’t find a boot disk that existed yesterday. WTF? Effing hate that sh!t.

Finally heard about immutability features like VanillaOS and might move to that…

A lot of the Linux community are the most obnoxious entitled scumbags I've ever met in my life.

The amount of people that get very demanding or hate developers (who are donating their time for free) when they don't cater their project towards that user's desires... it bothers me. It's even present in this very thread. It's an extremely popular viewpoint to have, and it seriously bugs me.

If you don't like how a project is run, don't use it. It's their project.

I hate being stuck in Dependency Hell thag happens sometimes when compiling programs, and other times when some vital hardware pieces like monitors, ethernet, sound don't appear to work.

It takes me an hour or more to get them working again, and makes me want to delete everything and reinstall the OS from scratch.

A lot of Linux software has really stupid names, and has since before Torvalds even started. GNU is a garbagepuke name for an operating system, and they've just kept doing that. Recursive actronyms like NANO and LAME, Gpackages and Krograms, and then so many bash built-ins and common shell programs have names like lsphw.

I once had this conversation:

"This distro comes with a kernel that's so new it breaks compatibility with [some piece of hardware]"

"use mainline"

"Yeah, okay, I have no idea how to do that in this distro."

Turns out "Mainline" is a kernel management tool. I thought the guy was telling me to use a mainline Linux kernel instead of a customized one, because A. the name of the app is poorly chosen, and B. he had the communication skills of a homeschooled zoomer.

Currently that it just shuts down hard when waking from sleep. I suspect its something to do with my monitor but haven't spent the time to work out why.

This is a good question. There's nothing I hate about Linux there are things I hate about some projects, and some communities, and some distributions.

Maybe zombie processes. I guess I dislike that Linux isn't a microkernel, but I doubt it'd have a huge impact because the kernel has been incredibly stable for my uses for years. I can't actually remember the last time I saw zombie processes, but it was within the past two years, and their existence is just a fundamental stupidity in Linux, and closely tied to the monolithic kernel architecture.

But, still... it'd be hard to stretch that to "hate."

CUPS is a terrible piece of software that almost everyone needs, and needs somebody to come along and do a pipewire on it. I guess I hate CUPS, but that's not Linux.

nuts could be much, much easier. It's designed for power users and is a PITA to configure. Quite capable, but could be a lot more simple for simple use cases.

I'm really reaching here. There's little in Linux + BSD userspace (or even GNU) that's not far worse on a Mac or in Windows; maybe I'd feel stronger if there was a better option.

I'm really, really hoping Redox makes it. I'd love to see an end-user oriented, non-research microkernel with broad hardware support - something good enough to run on modern bare hardware. Then I might jump ship, especially if I get to jettison systemd in the process.

Linux is super cool when everything works out of the box. But once you need to make adjustments, you're in a world of pain.

I recently had the distinct displeasure of using visudo for the first time and was flabbergasted that this should be the recommended standard app for its purpose. An app which randomly turns mouse and keyboard inputs into random letters, doesn't have a visible command menu, doesn't allow you to click to place the text cursor, doesn't have an easy way of copy-pasting...WTF? 🤯

Now, I am actually a trained IT professional who has installed and managed a plethora of firewalls, virtual machines, file servers, VPNs, etc... but Linux has me stumped way too often when apps seem to lack the most basic attention to usability.

And the lack of standardization leads to absurd situations where to solve one problem you have to first dig into three different underlying subsystems and their peculiarities, spending hours on trial and error using scant & often outdated or non-applicable documentation (it's for another distro and two years old). 🙄

No easy/simple kiosk mode. One of the very few things Windows does well, you can turn any computer into a kiosk in less than 5 minutes.

With Linux, you have to jank a bunch of stuff together and it's a huge pain.

Fedora Flatpaks needs to diaf. That is all.

non copyleft software in general1

Poor VR support. I’d probably switch if it ever becomes stable.

I don't dislike much about Linux and do realize that most issues stem from major software developers simply ignoring its existence. Here are a few I had to scratch my head for:

1. Sub-par touchpad experience.

Touchpads on Linux are generally worse when it comes to palm rejection compared to Windows. Macbooks are on a completely different level.

Another thing missing is the scrolling acceleration, which is present on Windows and MacOS.

2. Wayland protocol development.

People who approve protocol proposals are very annoying and often stall critical protocols for years.

For some reason some Steam games invert my mouse wheel direction but don’t when ran in windows and I can’t figure out a per-application toggle for it.

Why things decided to try and undo 30 years of muscle memory I don’t know.