Linuxsucks

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23363141

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipotentiality

What is a multipotentialite?

About half of Linux users will abandon it when it gets too close. Currently FreeBSD is the Loonix to the current Loonix. It's faster, more efficient, and more reliable on high loads. Linux requires more tuning by the user (partly depending on distro) to get near FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is more secure with features like jails for isolation and a strong, integrated firewall.

Like Linux, FreeBSD has limited hardware support. -Linux evangelists don't mind this, opting to insult hardware that doesn't work anyway.

The BSD license has fewer restrictions making it 'more customizable' in a legal sense.

"Linux doesn't have malware"

Distro-agnostic packages are becoming a practical requirement on many desktop distros, and they introduce bloat and security issues. They also detract from conventional methods of installing software pulling away support for them.

More options! Despite it being a critique of Linux, they keep introducing more confusing options for the end user. Rather than fix like a display manager, they'll just offer a different one as a solution (which doesn't work for other people)!

Update to Pipewire! -Ok, it broke ac3 pass-through, even after uninstalling it! I could deal with the usual issues of streaming video by downloading with yt-dlp or playing in MPV. Breaking ac3 passthrough was a much bigger deal for some of us.

"x11 is an insecure mess- Wayland is ready". -Echoed 2 years ago and people still rightfully call Wayland alpha software despite it being over 16 years old! This also goes along with 'it's never been a better time to switch'. Ok, if you're going to criticize Windows for not having decent tiling window managers (which it does have now), then take your shitty ones that work with Wayland and acknowledge it's a big step back. -Windows is now better for dynamic TWMs (opinion and something that may change or has)!

The kernel doesn't comply to Unix philosophy and is becoming huge and bloated. Every time a Linux user gloats about how Linux 'performs better', they're ignoring its lacking feature parity and hardware compatibility. Each version of the kernel loses about 10% of performance (compensated by hardware improvements). Linus Torvalds himself declared that the kernel has become 'huge and bloated'. -(over 10 years ago)! (Take that you 'Windows is bloat' creatons!) -As if most DEs aren't bloated or the most liked is a buggy mess (literally an update for Plasma had 'a bazillion bug fixes' as a release note with follow up notes resembling it). KDE confesses what evangelists won't.

'All my games just work' - Except that your precious Proton confesses what didn't every time they post a new compatibility list. There are also a multitude of games that stop working or simply don't work right. -In my case a game was unbeatable on Linux and wasted hours of effort. (It's only free if your time is worthless). And some games like Forza Horizon 5 needed a very specific older version of the game to run.

Wasn't it 3 times this year that a severe vulnerability has been discovered that has existed for over a decade? ("Loonix is secure"?) It's expected and valid that more code means more chance for vulnerabilities. Knowing where Linux is now on the code base, I can only imagine what the future holds in store on this front.

"Linux just keeps getting better" - Maybe in ways, but consider that technology is evolving, and Linux is slow to catch up. -Have they fixed the fractional scaling issue yet, how about HDR, DRM? (a one step forward, two steps back thing).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23291877

Distrotube pushed and pushed eMacs for over a year. He said it took him years to learn it. When He finally got around to giving a reason for why he preferred it over vim (or nvim), it was because of the fonts and his aging eyes.

-This is the kind of crappy advice Linux advocates like to give other people!

FWIW, Firefox has better font rendering than Chrome based web browsers.

Mouse is bloat

Can't use 'native' as an excuse if your argument is it runs games better. Can't blame hardware if you're ignoring recommended specs from the developer. Can't say it runs the exact same if you have no evidence. -It's just propaganda. Can't blame nVidia for not being open-source when they lead the industry and profit from trade secrets.

With smart phones, and consoles with minor generational gaps and PC functions, there isn't much utility in maintaining a home PC.

Claims of games running better on Linux can be discarded for some simple facts.

Those that had any significant improvement, had it because of a temporary hack (like with Elden Ring for a mere month) that most people wouldn't jump through the hoops for or bother with. The rest amounts to minor fps differences that no human can detect, or Linux users being themselves and not understanding what recommended specs are for (they like to 'prove' things with out-dated or poorly built hardware).

When Linux can go toe to toe in feature parity and compatibility (software and hardware), then it would be fair to make comparisons of a few humanly undetectable differences. -Until then, it's fairer to compare it to Windows 2000. https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/220100662/torvalds-calls-linux-kernel-huge-and-bloated

And there's a reason that people making these claims of games running better in Linux and not having a web page with data to refer to. -Because it's petty propaganda that's not even worth publishing.

Cold hard fact is, there are games that simply don't work in Linux or are buggy in Linux and that is documented every time Proton or Wine is updated.

MacOS is Unix-certified and borrows a lot of BSD while Linux is from scratch. The Linux kernel, SystemD, and emacs don't conform to the first tenet of Unix philosophy: "Design programs to do one thing well. This leads to the creation of simple, modular tools that can be combined in complex ways to accomplish more intricate tasks".

Anyway, it should stand on it's own merits instead of its users grasping at another OS's success. -Especially in light of that OS being tethered to limited hardware and expandability as well as dismal gaming support.

Mozilla being the most blatant example

Many rumors around about these programs working. -Even if they did, it wouldn't be easy or practical for people to switch and jump through the hoops to try them.

Can you install Librewolf on Android with the instructions for 'other Linux'? Why are Linux phones still in development and not able to be daily driven if you could just swith distros, fork Android, etc?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23116354

And if that was the case, There wouldn't be report after report about new games being added to the compability list. (On top of games being removed)

Your software packages are old (on top of being how far behind Loonix runs behind proprietary to begin with). Hardware compatibility sucks because of 'old kernel'. Software support is lacking and sometimes needs PPAs or 'personal package archives'. -And there are security risks with using these outdated packages and kernels.

Even an idiot can see you're recommending a distro based on a server distro that's based on a server distro (and surmise there'd be problems with that). Mint can't even focus on one distro but wastes resources on a Debian version (server distro), and a desktop environment (the only one I rage quit after a half hour). So, Mint adds to the problem of GNU/Linux and the choices with not only 2 redundant versions of itself, but a DE no one needed or asked for.

Is it really easy? In Arch, you have the AUR which eliminates the need for snaps, appimages, flatpaks, building from source, and their inherent issues (including security issues with flatpaks). You'd also get a wiki that explains almost everything.

Some dumb Loonix YouTuber told his followers that they need to stop confusing noobs with many different distros. He suggested to pick one and go with that. -He picked Mint and not for any particular reason. -This YouTuber also told us that 'Linux is Linux' and distro didn't matter. (You're following the advice of an idiot).

Linux could crash if you mounted an HDD that wasn't shut down properly. Windows 'bloat' would automatically fix the drive before mounting.

Nobody is going to notice a difference of 2-3fps in games when they're above 60fps.

Wayland isn't small because it's 'more efficient code'. It's still in heavy development even after 16 years. (Give it time). Many of us consider it to still be Alpha software and not an upgrade to x11 but an alternative.

Still booting from HDD? - Try starting the computer and grabbing a cup of coffee or make your bed. Boot up time is trivial, and nothing to brag about when you're sacrificing reliability and compatibility.

In addition to commands that can wipe your drive (and possibly your mainboard), screw up things like fstab and boot to tty, there's also the issue of people using sudo + text editor to edit files.

The proper way is using sudoedit.

Sudoedit uses a temporary file to make changes, so it's not edited by the root user reducing the risk of accidental damage to critical files. If something goes wrong during editing, the original file remains intact. It also maintains the permissions of the edited file.

New Linux users aren't likely to know better, so the advice of 'just use CLI' is pretty ignorant.