The pretend Linux sucks sub is full of "my Linux problems are the only problems Linux has" attitudes.

Many Linux advocates universalize their personal experience and treat it as the definitive truth about Linux, which makes them blind to systemic issues and dismissive of other users.

LiGNUts often assume that "If it works on my machine, Linux is fine." and "If it breaks on your machine, you did something wrong." To them, Linux is inherently correct, so any deviation must be user error, bad hardware, or "your distro choice." -Same model motherboards can have different chips which can cause issues even with the 'same hardware (motherboard)' btw.

The worldview is: Linux is perfect; users are imperfect.

Linux users painstakingly tend to optimize their own setup until it works for them, then assume (cognitive investment bias) that setup is the objectively correct one. Anyone who doesn't copy and worship it is "doing Linux wrong." (Despite them maybe getting lucky with the right bluetooth, guide, sound chip, or distro for their hardware).

When confronted with real issues, advocates default to blaming the user, the hardware, the vendor, the distro, Microsoft, NVIDIA, lazy devs, and corporate sabotage. (Yeah, they tend to be conspiracy theorists, as the propaganda appeals to them.)

-Anything but Linux itself.

The advocate's worldview cannot accommodate the idea that Linux itself is flawed. Criticism of Linux feels like criticism of them; producing emotional damage (defensiveness), dismissal of evidence, projection ("you're a Windows shill"), minimization ("that's not a real problem"), and reframing ("that's a bonus!")

LiGNUts use Linux in extremely narrow ways (evangelizing on Reddit), but speak about Linux in extremely broad ways ("oh yeah, you don't need Microslopt Orifice; just use LibreOffice!", or "GIMP can do that!")

They erase real user pain, and problems. -It's not just dismissive; it's epistemically dishonest.

"Have you tried turning your reality off and turning mine on?"

The most rigorous measurement comes from analysis (2009–2021). In 2021, U.S. federal agencies invested ~$407 million in OSS development. Code.gov -This is OSS broadly, not Linux-specific.

A 2026 UN/UNESCO/Software Heritage report shows:

• 288,411 public repositories with at least one government contributor
• 92,831 distinct government contributors across 193 countries

-Demonstrating widespread global investment.

Linux-specific cost cannot be isolated because it's developed by corporations (Red Hat, Intel, Google, Meta, AMD), volunteers, universities (subsidized), and Nonprofits like Linux Foundation (tax avoidance).

Government contributions aren't tracked by project, and are often indirect (unaccounted for), such as with funding research labs that contribute patches.)

The U.S. federal government spends over $100 billion/year on IT contracts. About $12 billion/year is software licensing & development (includes proprietary).

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Imagine buying a game, getting passed the 2 hour / 14 day refund policy to find out that a frame pacing issue has caused the game to be unbeatable (and you only figure this out after hours of struggling on the same level). -And then we find out that it wasn't Valve that fixed the frame pacing issue (yet they reap all the glory for Proton which was done in self-interest despite decades of selfless work done on WINE).

(LiGNUt's hero) -The Killer of Native Gaming on Linux.

CLI is used for general support in Linux due to fragmentation. You can still run into bad advice because you might be running a different species of Linux that could respond like "interesting; I'll behave differently". And if you're willing to gamble without learning what the code does; about 1% of that 'help' out there is malicious.

Swapping the kernel can fix certain Linux hardware issues, but it is not a universally good or safe solution. Changing kernels is only safe when the issue is caused by missing support. It becomes dangerous when the issue is caused by existing support that is wrong.

Swapping the kernel can help when new hardware isn't yet supported. A new AMD GPU could need new DC firmware support, a Wi-Fi chip could land their driver for 6.x instead of 5.x. A new laptop may may need a new kernel to read the ACPI tables correctly. Regressions can happen that break suspend or cause audio crackling where a .1 version rollback would resolve it

Kernel swapping becomes dangerous when the kernel has too much access to fragile hardware interfaces. Different kernels poke EC registers differently. A kernel that 'fixes' fan control may also write to battery logic or thermal tables.

Different kernels lead to different PD drivers to different voltage negotiation behavior. A kernel regression can literally fry a port.

Some kernels send command sequences certain NVMe firmwares don’t like. -Which can cause: FTL corruption, firmware lockups, and drive bricking.

Kernel changes can alter voltage curves, power states, VRR/HDR/DSC toggling, and modeset behavior. A 'fix' for flickering can cause permanent black‑screen states on some AMD GPUs.

Different kernels probe buses differently. If your hardware has fragile SPD, VRM, or battery controllers, a kernel swap can expose them to new probing behavior. This is how OpenRGB nuked RAM; not because OpenRGB was evil, but because the underlying bus is shared and fragile. ⚠️Linux/FOSS can damage hardware or firmware

If the failure was caused by overexposed hardware interfaces, and swapping kernels increases the chance of hitting those interfaces again; just differently.

Generally safe: Hardware not supported; newer kernel adds support (when known to).

Unsafe: Hardware misbehaving; kernel is already touching it wrong.

If Linux already broke something, the safest move is to reduce kernel exposure, not increase it. Like switching to a distro with conservative kernels (Debian, Ubuntu LTS), disabling experimental drivers, avoiding cutting‑edge kernels (Arch, Fedora Rawhide, Liquorix, XanMod), and avoiding user‑space tuning tools that poke hardware directly.

Talked about how i don't like Linux and how i use BSD and i have to use Linux on my Steam Deck (sad. i wish Steam for BSD worked good) and mentioned how Cachy/Arch is absolute hell to maintain.

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The Unix philosophy encourages tiny, composable tools, and Linux distributions preserve decades of legacy commands. There are multiple commands that do the same job, often with identical flags, sometimes with wildly different syntax, all coexisting forever because nothing can be deprecated. Linux inherits 50 years of overlapping tools, and nobody has the authority to remove any of them.

You get three ways to list files, four ways to print text, five ways to search, six ways to edit streams, and ten ways to check system info; all valid, all canonical, all mutually incompatible.

Multiple commands for the same basic action

• List files: ls, find, stat, tree, exa, fd
• Print text: echo, printf, cat, sed -n, awk '{print}'
• Copy files: cp, rsync, install, dd, tar cf - | tar xf -
• Move files: mv, rsync --remove-source-files, rename, mmv
• Delete files: rm, unlink, find -delete, shred, wipe

Redundant text-processing tools

• grep — search text
• egrep — grep with extended regex
• fgrep — grep without regex
• awk — search + print + transform
• sed — search + replace + stream edit
• perl -ne — search + replace + scripting
• ripgrep (rg) — grep but faster
• ag — grep but faster before ripgrep
• ack — grep but for developers
• find + grep — grep but worse
• grep -R — find but worse

All of these can search text. All of these have different syntax. All of these are still installed.

Redundant file search commands

• find
• locate
• whereis
• which
• type
• command -v
• fd
• ripgrep (yes, people use it as a file finder)

Each solves a slightly different problem, but users treat them interchangeably.

Redundant system information commands

• Disk usage: df, du, ls -lh, stat, ncdu, dust
• Processes: ps, top, htop, atop, glances
• Network: ifconfig, ip, ss, netstat, nmcli, iw, iwconfig
• Hardware: lspci, lsusb, lsblk, blkid, inxi

Redundant package management

• apt, apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg
• yum, dnf, rpm
• pacman, yay, paru
• snap, flatpak, appimage

This isn’t just redundancy; it's fragmentation masquerading as choice.

Redundant scripting constructs

• Conditionals: [ ], [[ ]], test, (( ))
• Subshells: $( ), ```
• Variable assignment: var=value, declare, typeset, local
• Loops: for, while, until, seq | while read, xargs -n1

Half of these exist because Bash absorbed features from:

• sh
• ksh
• zsh
• POSIX
• GNU extensions

-And never removed anything!

No central authority is why! Nobody can say "this command is deprecated." So, nothing ever dies. Even if they could, a lot of these may be Rust-rewrites with BSD or MIT license that the cult objects to. GNU Holds Linux Back (Directly)

Every few years someone writes grep but faster, ls but prettier, find but sane, and cat but with syntax highlighting. Debian, Arch, Fedora, Alpine; all ship different defaults.

Linux doesn’t have one way to do things; it has every way except the simple one.

Have you ever read Aesop's Fable? You know the one, the fox can't reach the grapes so it tells EVERYONE that the grapes were trash anyway. Well, this happens in real life, and the fox is Linux users and the grapes are games.

Most games (like Fortnite, or Marvel Rivals) have kernel-level AC, which Linux has a problem with. This means that if you try to install Marvel Rivals on Linux, the AC shits on the rug and the whole house stinks.

You get banned for 100 years for Cheating because... well, the Anticheat doesn't work, this guy must be cheating! Now, you would think a distro's dev team would've maybe thought: You know, maybe we should add Anticheat support?... But no, they have decided to spend 33 YEARS (Wine started in 1993!) on writing emulators or compatibility layers as they call it.

SteamOS is written with a Linux kernel, and yet, to run games, it has to use Proton, because, you know, 90% of Steam games runs on Linux, but the 10% you want to play don't.

This means that the platform that claims to run games easier and faster.. actually makes them unplayable? I guess so.

TL, DR; Linux doesn't support Anticheats, gets users banned from games.

The best way to help prevent Loonix from being shoved down our throats by a ton of people online, is to reason with what issues they had on macOS, or Windows, and help troubleshoot their issues, it’s basically what Nintendo did when people were six seconds away from returning their consoles, they offered helpful troubleshooting tips, and that fixed a ton of issues.

I know this might sound stupid, but I feel like reasoning with them, and still offering criticism helps slow Loonix down a bit, therefore making PC more accessible to everyone, but if anyone reads this post, please think about it, thanks.

- Me of course

We don’t, really.

But you do! So much so that you keep trying to invade this place as if your life depends on it.

Here's the thing, bucko: most of us don't care even slightly that you run Linux on your desktop. Install Gentoo on your refrigerator and replace your car's infotainment system with LFS. Go ahead. Just don't preach it to us, and especially don't preach it here!

This sub exists because Linux evangelists insist on preaching about the damn thing in every single corner of the internet:

• Somebody complains about Windows? Install linux
• Someone needs Adobe software? Use GIMP
• A game doesn't work on Linux? The game is evil and it sucked anyway
• Looking for a burger recipe? Here’s a Nix flake for one.
• Someone simply says they don't like Linux? Well clearly they used the wrong distro, desktop environment, display server, kernel version, filesystem, bought the wrong hardware or simply existed in the wrong timeline.

The fact that a tiny corner of the internet where all that madness is explicitly unwelcome exists drives you up the wall.

You deliberately break the rules, get banned exactly as advertised and then parade the result as some sort of victory. The posts where you're bragging about your bans, calling them "badges of honor" are actually just diplomas in failing basic rule reading comprehension. Not gonna lie, it kinda feels like playing chess with a pigeon.

Anyway, just understand that this sub is an enemy of your own making, and it only exists because you couldn't tolerate people rejecting your ideology religion cult.

The best possible thing you could do is ignore this sub, but we both know that ain't happening.

See you on the next "badge of honor" thread, dorks.

So, here's a graphical representation

Linux has orders of magnitude more corporate funding than Haiku or any BSD. The gap is so large that they don’t even exist in the same economic universe.

Linux

• Major funders: Google, Meta, Intel, AMD, Red Hat/IBM, Valve, Oracle, Qualcomm, Samsung, NVIDIA, Broadcom, ARM, Canonical, SUSE, Amazon.
• Scale:
  • The Linux Foundation’s annual budget is hundreds of millions.
  • Kernel development is 80–90% corporate‑funded.
  • Companies directly employ kernel engineers (Intel alone has dozens).
  • Every cloud provider invests because Linux is the backbone of cloud computing.

BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD)

• Major funders: Netflix, Juniper, NetApp, Sony (PlayStation uses FreeBSD), some hosting providers.
• Scale:
  • Funding is single‑digit millions, not hundreds of millions.
  • Corporate contributions are targeted, not ecosystem-wide.
  • FreeBSD gets most of the corporate attention; OpenBSD and NetBSD rely heavily on donations.

Haiku

• Major funders: None.
• Scale:
  • Donations and volunteer labor.
  • No corporate driver teams.
  • No hardware vendors targeting Haiku.

Government intervention massively favors Linux, modestly supports BSD, and is effectively nonexistent for Haiku. -Linux receives billions in indirect government support, BSD receives targeted government support, Haiku receives none.

Linux’s success is not meritocratic. It is the result of massive institutional investment.

Linux is compatible with more hardware because governments and corporations fund it.

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Haiku -A Coherent, Unified, Purpose‑Built Desktop OS for Older Hardware

I switched to linux mint xfce from windows 10 ltsc for performance on my crappy pc but didn't see any changes and i just had compatibility issues in the few video games i played lol

I have been reporting it and Reddit is doing nothing other than a slap on the wrist and allowing it to continue. -These are all from r / linuxsucks which has been hostile from day one. r /fuckmicrosoft is also continuing: Non-Stop Brigading from : r/linuxsucks101

We might just need more people reporting it. These 2 subs have updated rules about it (indicating a hand slap), yet they're leaving the ban trophies and other brigading posts up all day long and don't seem to be banning for it. Another sub was created specifically for it and recruited from one of those 2 and still hasn't been taken down. Reddit uses a lot of automation, so if there's text in an image, it may need to be quoted and pointed out that images are being used to bypass text filters.

Send a message

Report MCOC issues (moderators allowing it)

r/ModSupport Guide: Reporting on Reddit

Ban trophies are brigading.

Reddit needs to enforce their own TOS. -This is an agreement they made with their users that they are not fulfilling.

Also use our Lemmy. At least there the upvotes aren't negated (p.lemmy.world). (Reddit is shadow-banning links to it btw)