Linux

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.

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.

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.

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.

Excessive jargon, tends to push away people who didn't take classes in computer engineering or grow up using unix. Mounting of drives, incomprehensible error or status messages or even "sudo".

Managing multiple harddrives- I'm used to running multiple harddrives to manage disk space, but everything in Linux installs into /home without giving me an option to install somewhere else. I can apparently set a hard drive to be an extension of a Linux folder, but then how do I know what physical drive a file is on?

Making shortcuts- was very easy to make a shortcut in Windows. My Linux distro (Mint) has a specific keyboard command for it, but nothing in the GUI/menus.

Honestly, the fact I don't have as much time as I'd like to contribute workarounds.

Take yesterday, I got Magic and Mayhem (the classic) running via wine, but I had to create a new wine prefix to remove dpi scaling (because, Apparently, the winecfg graphic tab is global, and if dpi scaling is used it truncates the game's display). Still can't get the music working, but that's what MOC is for, and I did use an old cracked version.

I want to make a lutris install script for this, but I lack the time. That's my main dislike of Linux - I wish there was a solid indexed forum to share game workarounds that had a drop-down search by game.

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.

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…

Fedora Flatpaks needs to diaf. That is all.

No easy way to play sounds in microphone(like Soundpad program)

People that argue over Gnome vs. KDE. Shut up and use whatever you like. No need to yuck other people's yum.

Making distro clones with premade software, wallpaper, etc.

Systemback is easy to use, but then complex to install for normal people (lack of instructions, have to manually make the partitions, needs 3 partitions but nothing states that in the software).

Post-Cubic customizations are easy for normal people to install but way more complex to set up (basically terminal only, need to know more abstract terminal commands for specific customizations like pinning an app to the bottom panel).

Basically, the classic Linux GUI problems.

The community lmao

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.