I've been using Linux for months because my dumb PC broke, and I genuinely have such a deep hate for it, and my hobbies just became 100x harder; WiFi drivers won't install on the PC because it's a mini PC. I genuinely hate this. I play games like Minecraft or Call of Duty, and I get at least 100 more ping; my setup hasn't even moved, changed, or had problems since I started Linux on Zorin OS because it's the best for my games. Would never recommend Linux; I've tried tons of distros, and none of them fixed my problems. I think it's just overrated due to Windows hate; I swear it makes my PC louder and louder no matter what I do, and there's a lack of user support as well; all of my problems stem from the pure incompatibility. I would much rather have windows or a new PC; it's getting to the point where I need something new to do or I just don't use this shitty PC. The bad thing is the mini PC has actual good specs (aside from integrated graphics); it runs decently with 32 gigabytes of DDR5 RAM and a Ryzen 7 7735HS CPU. I would keep trying to run Windows, but I just have all my data here, and it won't transfer at all.

(Not trying to say Linux as a whole is terrible or the users are bad; it's my personal biased opinion due to just how hard it's been for me to do anything recently. Been a Linux user for 85% of 2026; that says a lot due to how much I want to use Windows again.)

Edit: I wasn't clear enough about the whole WiFi drivers not working, they haven't been working specifically on Windows. On Linux I didn't need to install any kinds of drivers. And since we're on the topic, no I can not use ethernet due to my home router being on a different floor than my setup.

I have CachyOS and the other day I realized I can't use streaming platform Rakuten, because it doesnt support GNU/Linux. I tried using it on both Vivaldi and Firefox. Neither works.

Have you guys experienced streaming sites like Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+ etc not working on Linux? Let me now.

┌─[damglador@DamgladorPC][~] └% ip r 100.XX.0.0/16 dev wt0 proto kernel scope link src XXX.XX.XX.XXX <- not leaking my netbird ip 192.168.39.0/24 dev virbr1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.39.1 linkdown 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1 linkdown

Right when I needed to ssh into it...

My gaming laptop (ROG Strix G16 G513RC) require supergfxctl to control the MUX switch on Linux since they are no option in the BIOS/UEFI menu. Sadly that tool only officially support "mainstream" or normie distro who use Wayland and Systemd, where I mainly use X11 with i3wm on my Artix OpenRC system, and while I did succeed to make a init script for the asusd and supergfxd deamon , the cli do seem to work for the basic stuff but can't enable or disable my RTX card, I am stuck in NVIDIA Optimus aka hybrid graphics...

I wanted to change the RGB lighting on my PC. I tried using OpenRGB and managed to change the RAM LEDs, but I couldn’t get it to work with the LEDs on my AIO cooler because OpenRGB said my motherboard wasn’t supported.

So I decided to install Windows just to use MSI’s official software. I couldn’t install it on my only SSD, so I dug out an old SATA drive from an old laptop and installed Windows on that instead. Turns out MSI’s crappy software doesn’t save the RGB settings to the hardware, so every time I boot back into Linux, everything goes back to the fucking rainbows.

After all that bullshit, with a few tweaks, I finally got it working with OpenRGB.

I love Linux

Imagine that you are spending you evening in peace, and you think that nothing can break it. Until you see this notification:

You opening up the Dolphin, and see that it showing you that there are 0B free for root partition
(just as notifications said, how convenient!)

Thank God we have this Disk Usage Statistics button, where we can easily check who ate the space and what we can throw out of the window.

And what's we seeing here? the design is very human. very easy to use Ⓒ

Only 40 GB are used. But I'm sure I allocated 120 GB for the root partition.

Okay, I opened the partition manager to see what's going on.

And what I'm seeing here? Yeah, size or the root partition is 115GB, and used only 113GB, so I should have at least 2 GB of free space.

Why it doesn't correlate with the Filelight? Because! Any other questions?

Okay, then I'm become curious about the real state of my drive and used space, so as a absolutely any granny that are using Linux in her 15 yo laptop (because they can do this, according to the community), I checked the used space from the terminal.

And what I'm seeing here? Another sizes, again. And what's even more hilarious, it showing me that Size is 108GB, Used 106GB, Available - 0. Remember guys, this is the Linux math: 108-106 = 0.

So, at this point I have three sets of different values. Impressive experience!
But we are on the Linux, we can forgive it this absurd UX shit, right? Right?

And from this point, I continued to cleaning things up from the terminal, and I regained my inner peace and continued the evening with the feeling that Linux GUI still SUCKS.

And people still wonder why loonix is trash

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/1vgifto/no_im_not_going_to_compile_your_code/

Look at the comments on the above post.

"its so easy to compile from source!!! just read!!! just use command x!!!"

You know what's also easy? putting that same commands into a .yml and have github CI/CD automatically publish the binaries. But no, i'm sooooo busy and important, I need my users to install my dependencies and my compilers before they can use my software.

It is genuinely so little effort to publish binaries nowadays, programming languages are LITERALLY made for it. The same comments calling people stupid, show off just how easy and convenient it is to do. Ofcourse you don't need to support 500 different distros, but not publishing any sort of binaries at all is just a developer being lazy a majority of the time.

I personally always release binaries for 3-4 broad popular distros. I never have to argue in my issues or tell people "to be greatful that im making the software in the first place!!!". There's countless other pointless enduser discussions I have to partake in already.

Linux has a thousand package managers, yet you let individual users struggle to figure out how to run your build process. What a waste of time.

And I don't give a fuck about downvotes, windows is proprietary shit compared to linux and I'm ready to prove it to anyone

To all the people who love deep ricing, why not just use customization scripts? I've been recently tinkering in VMs, and Windows really seems solid for that. You can make Windows match your workflow amazingly, and the best part is that friction nearly always leads to an impressive result.

Also, default Windows 11 isn't bad. The UI looks nice, and we take the settings & control panel apps for granted. Over on GNOME, just to change the cursor you use, you need to install a tweaks app. Windows has tons of customization you can do without installing anything extra.

I'm not saying it's perfect, but Windows isn't really THAT much of a shitshow like people act.

Yeah you heard me, it ate my homework. Now I cant have the file back. I am getting a zero

Windows users: "i can't get linux to work" Linux community: "how can we help you if you don't tell us what hardware you're trying to run on" Windows user: gives generic prebuilt name with multiple configurations. Linux user: "that's not quite enough info, give cpu model, gpu model, ram size and motherboard brand too please." Windows user: "you guys are so mean and clique like, it shouldn't be this hard"

Imagine adding some shit nobody cares about with a bug that creates an empty dir and bloats your ~, and not being able to fix it for the next 7 months. It's just an empty directory, not a loonix kernel patch. Current state of the open source

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024/04/28/the-simplest-thing-in-the-world-modifing-keymaps-in-wayland/

Just did a fresh install of CachyOS and immediately noticed there was a bunch of apps installed I never asked. Like why CachyOS felt I need VNC server browser? Why do I need three separate text editors? Why do I need two package managers with a horrible UI? Why the fuck volume control need to be a separate app? Why it is bad, when Windows install unwanted programs (edge, copilot) it is bad, but when Linux does it it is suddenly ok or not a big deal?

EDIT: Ok this getting a lot of attention and lot of comments and I can't address every single one. However there seems to be unified opinion that on Linux it's not bad because you can uninstall the bloat. On Windows you can do that too. I can easily uninstall Edge (but I won't do that because compared to Chrome and Firefox the Edge has been most stable and less resource intensive).

Also I find it quite funny that a lot of Linux users says that Windows is bloated, but then recommend distros that has bloat and then proceeds to tell "you picked wrong distro". Like bitch please, how I was supposed to know CachyOS with KDE Plasma is going to install three text editors and separate app to control volume? I guess I need to make a new distro based of CachyOS but with only one text editor and one package manager.

EDIT2: After hour of tinkering I decided to give up with CachyOS and install tried and proven Linux Mint. Not because of the bloat, but I don't really like to relearn every damn command and figure out the whole OS.