Some people seem to hate Linux
Some people seem to hate Linux
Another reason I’m hesitant is my discomfort with working in the command line.
I only realized that after trying it out – turns out it can be much easier for certain tasks. The command-line interface in Windows feels a bit clunky, which explains why some people had a poor experience. PowerShell offers better functionality, but I still don’t think it’s as user-friendly as Linux shells (though that might just reflect my preference). You can skip the terminal in many Linux systems if you prefer – on platforms like Ubuntu, you won’t need to interact with it much beyond what you’d do on Windows, unless driver issues arise.
Windows obviously tends to grow larger and become slower over time. I recently reinstalled Windows three times in a span of three months after setting it up on my custom-built machine.
I don't even know what's the point of this poll, I mean, when you say "I dislike Linux" what do you exactly mean? Because it's just the kernel, it's not like Windows where you get everything, like the windows explorer, music player, and you can't change it without any third party utility Hating Linux just means you hate the kernel, uhm ok? So you hate also your android phone, etc... Do you understand what I mean here? What you are referring about It's an entire community, and distribution projects, and the whole OS is made from programs from different developers around the world who can also be companies or not Now if you hate some things about general things that happen on Linux desktop distributions it's still just incorrect, for example if you say you dislike there is no hardware support it's not the OS, linux kernel or distribution fault, it's not like Windows where it come and it says " Yo, there is my OS which comes preinstalled on your computer and it's supposed to work because the vendor made the drivers" Would you really blame Apple for not being able to get MacOS working on regular PC's when you should hackintosh aka putting drivers on it? I don't think so if a computer comes out with Windows preinstalled in mind and doesn't have drivers for Linux, you can only go telling hardware vendors to make drivers to it or tell people/developers/hackers to reverse engineer the windows driver (like for nvidia nouveau's driver or broadcom wifi ones) Do you need to manually compile a driver on Android which uses Linux? I don't think so, it comes preinstalled It is a distribution fault for example not having a driver that exist on other distributions or in the mainline kernel, and that's why distribution bug reports exist, it gets fixed, but it's totally fine since it's in the 1% market share, you wouldn't have that much issues if you are using common hardware or even better natively supported linux computers like Dell XPS developer edition, which exist and is everything plug&play even if you format it, even the touch screen it's just that some linux fanboy told you "lol switch to linux idiot everything works here" and you get this mad if something doesn't work to you? but again, why would you listen to people rather than understand what actually is? Would you say Windows sucks if some device you are trying to set up works on MacOS and not on Windows because it doesn't have drivers? It's pointless, you are either a Windows fanboy just trying to spit out bad things you do not like as usual or do not understand how to correctly compare them I mean, you either be a fanboy when saying "I hate this because it's an OS without drivers and I can't get my thing to work, like the OS said it would" What? When did Linux said to be a Windows replacement and that it's supposed to work on everything? It just can't Linux it's just what it is. If it is supported, use it. It's not supposed to work on everything without vendor intervention in some cases, if Adobe doesn't make its suite and you say "Linux doesn't have programs then it sucks" you are just saying "there is no developer which develops for linux, than I blame the fact it's so less used than Windows" which is basically a chicken and egg paradox anyway, but really, wtf? it is really that hard to understand?? People just blaming the OS probably do not even know what the actual reason is I don't know where the all this brainwash comes from, for the record I'm not even a Linux user on my desktop, I don't use if because I can't play all the games I can on Windows, but for this reason I'm not blaming Linux, I use it on my laptop when I work and program for example, now I could say I hate "This specific linux code of the kernel sucks" and even in this case you could blame a developer which is arrogant and does not want to fix it or change things , how you could blame a community project? You can change or ask other people to do that, with no problems if you do not like it in most of the cases, you could blame it for bad designs for example ALSA and pulseaudio and in this case for ALSA you can say Linux audio sucks, because the developers already know that and did almost nothing in all those years and prefer to workaround things. Back to earlier , It's not like Linux developer do not want or have not the will to support every desktop and device in the world. I'm just saying most of people criticism is not right, and it is not a "Linux OS" fault. You want to see how a good "I hate linux it sucks" statement is? (most of them, this article is a little flamebait) https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linu...rrent.html Windows comes as a proprietary, big OS, and it's an entire, completely different thing you can't modify, or you could ask them for some changes, and if they don't listen to you, then it's legit to say it sucks, because there couldn't be any other project to legally replace it, another example is Windows Updates, then I could say dislike Windows itself, because it comes out with it preinstalled and I can't modify it Another example, if I hate a desktop environment would you say "I hate linux" or "I hate KDE?" If you are going to compare Linux to Windows you need to be really more specific , because it's so generic that it wouldn't make that much sense Just because there are different people who only say it sucks, uhm ok? They wouldn't even say for example "I hate the fact most linux desktops do not have what I need if you compare it to Windows one" which would this be considered a decent criticisms but just "lol linux sucks lmao windows everything works because that's what I've been using for 10 years" You are legit to say you hate something when it really couldn't be otherwise, and it's really their blame, like I hate Xfce project because I got contact with the developer and did not wanted to make something that will automatically disable desktop effects when games are opened leading to bad performance if , and it was the main developer. Now I could fork it, but in this case doesn't make sense. Doesn't come with every Linux OS so it doesn't make sense to say "Linux sucks" Or I hate GIMP because since idk how many years it's still not new user friendly even though people already criticized it I do not want to start a flame war on it, but I couldn't use either GIMP or Photoshop, but think photoshop is more intuitive, so I hate GIMP. or "typical Linux most common open source graphic editing program" Screwing around where exactly? You do not have to use the command line everytime So you hate the fact people are trying a way to get Windows native games to work on a completely different and unsupported OS, and only god knows how much work and effort it required, and released their software an an alpha like wine and DXVK, so you blame the entire OS which could be perfectly fine for others? Interesting Really, you people do understand how to compare two OS in it's best, just because most of Linux native games are ported badly from Windows (which happens on MacOS too) does it mean Linux suck? It's just the developer does not want to, you can either decide if you feel personally offended to blame the developer for an 1% market share OS but personally I won't For the record, in the last year it's only a click to install games wine and without all the manual effort required with Lutris Edited March 6, 2019 by Guest
It would be fine to keep whatever software you have set up. At least I’m using the same version I installed two years back, and there’s no need for a fresh install.
I don't think that's a great idea - first of all many of Linus' employees work with Adobe products, which don't work (well) on Linux. Secondly, the comment section would be a mix of the following: "Linux sucks, it can't run gamez" "LOL Noobuntu? Use gentoo or gtfo" "Can you review [insert distro] next time?" "OMG at minute 10 [that thing you couldn't manage] is so easy, you just need to copy and paste these 15 commands!" In short, I doubt there's anything to gain - those who were going to use Linux already do, and those who don't are unlikely to change their mind after such a video. Also, I wouldn't expect Linus or anyone in his crew to spend the time and effort required for a proper "rice" and, besides, there's probably more value for his audience in reviewing the "out of the box" experience. Heh, the earliest memories I have of using a computer were with windows 95, and by the time I could read we had 98 and 2000 (in dual boot lol).
I've been there before—really. For a few years I used Linux, but eventually switched to Windows after trying it out.