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".
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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I know this is petty, but title bars in apps. Please, remove it entirely. It's not necessary and it feels so 2007. I don't need to be reminded which application I'm using when I can use that screen real estate for other things.
Is there an other way to drag and move the window if they are gone?
You can alt+drag windows, which is more convenient anyway since you don't need to aim for the titlebar, can hold it by any part of the window.
Yes, at least on Windows, the entire top frame of the window is draggable so long as it's not a button or a tab. You can also use WinKey+Arrow to shove them to one side or another, and if all else fails, you can tap the alt key to temporarily bring out the file menu and the title bar.
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Politics. Let me grab some 🍿 for all the arguments about how "Linux is inherently political" and all that nonsense that I don't care about. I just want to use the damn thing, that's all.
I don’t hate anything whatsoever! It kicks ass in everything. I’m sure there are some things I’d like to see improved, I can’t think of at the moment but I know I’ve had minor frustrations. But nothing is perfect and Linux has been absolutely fantastic for me on all the systems I use it for.
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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.
oh i was annoyed with this too! WHY can't i change where software installs??? I use a smaller boot drive and have extra large hard drives. it's also very confusing how you mount a drive inside your media folder so then it looks like the data is actually under your home folder on your boot drive...but it's not.
Come back to Linux recently, with a mini pc and Ubuntu. So far it's Snaps (specifically not doing hw acceleration with anything moderately new) and Wayland not updating the mouse cursor when the CPU usage gets heavy.
While many Devs have been working tirelessly behind the scenes making everything just work, it feels like there's another group doing their best to break it all again...
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The fact that Kerberos and LDAP originated in the *NIX ecosystem and still don’t work worth a shit without Active Directory.
That’s the one good thing to come from Microsoft in 20 years. Maybe GitHub too although it’s getting enshittified now.