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We love to praise linux constantly and tell everyone to change to it (they should) but what are your biggest annoyances ?

Mine would be, installing software (made even more complex by flatpaks being added, among the 5 other ways there already were to install software) and probably wifi power management issues.

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[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Total lack of stability, not in "crashing programs" but in the entire idea of "throw it all out and start over" that seems to 100% infest every single Linux developer every few years.

Not to mention the total loss of every single bit of UNIX philosophy over the years.

"Everything's a file." ? Not according to Linux, not any more.

All the various *ctls necessary to run and inspect your system have completely gotten out of control.

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[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I hate that nobody recognizes Linux as a legit OS. But that is the same with many FOSS projects like LibreOffice. The format is not recognized in a lot of places, which is insane. Microsoft really have their marketing prefected

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[–] sanderium@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

It is not Linux itself but:

  • I dislike when something goes wrong with a program and the documentation is not clear on how to fix it. But I do not complain because it is understandable when developers write documentation they have to choose who's hand to hold, if they choose to help everyone then the documentation can get long and perhaps redundant.

  • When one is a beginner and installs a distribution for the first time one can get scared by the splash screen showing errors which are 99% of the time safe to ignore (e.g showing that a device was not found). I know its important for developers and advanced users to know all this info but it can make beginners feel so damn scared (like me).

  • Naming, like in the general sense, it seems like many software have some ridiculous names (dolphin, ncmpcpp, gimp, foot, gnome). Very subjective, I know, but in the end I love and hate these names.

  • Bluetooth... yeah.

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[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago

non copyleft software in general1

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 10 points 5 days ago (9 children)

All the different window top bars/UI elements not lining up.. especially for stuff that has nothing up there.. extra annoying when disabling window decorations don't disable them

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[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hibernation should really soon work out of the box with Secure Boot on. Afaik chromeos was looking into that

Also paranoid people saying that e.g. all TPMs are made by the devil and will spy you to death lol

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[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Smug and condescending users that started using Linux 2 months ago.

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

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".

[–] artyom@piefed.social 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Same reason as the rest of the world: too complicated to use. Also pretty much all the DEs are ugly and dated, save for GNOME, in my opinion.

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nothing to hate... some forums have turned pretty caustic but other than that, the software and the community are awesome

Re Flatpaks, I did not like them so I do not use them.. not need to hate a thing I have barely any interaction with, choosing not to use them has not limited me at all

Never had wifi power management issues either (15 years on Linux)

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[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I hate that I've got to the point that if something goes wrong, I know it's 99.9% user error and can't blame anyone else.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Buy an Nvidia graphics, you can blame it then. Accidentally erased your disk with dd? Fuck Nvidia!

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[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No three finger drag on Wayland

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I miss executable files being as easy as on windows

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[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 5 days ago

Honestly, not much.

The first would be that the webcam in my work laptop goes in and out of working pretty regularly. It happens to the whole team so I know it’s not just mine. I end up using an external one pretty regularly. Mostly I’m annoyed at Dell for not providing proper driver support.

The second is that there are a very small number of applications that I occasionally use where I need to fire up a VM. But even that is more of I’m annoyed at the organization that forces me to use an obsolete proprietary file format once a quarter.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

I hate being stuck in Dependency Hell thag happens sometimes when compiling programs, and other times when some vital hardware pieces like monitors, ethernet, sound don't appear to work.

It takes me an hour or more to get them working again, and makes me want to delete everything and reinstall the OS from scratch.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 5 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

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.

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