[HN Gopher] Linux Sucks 2022
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Linux Sucks 2022
Author : WhyNotHugo
Score : 31 points
Date : 2022-07-08 21:37 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| velcrovan wrote:
| Can someone explain what this is? Hard to dive into a recording
| if I have no context and no idea if it's relevant to me.
| rtznprmpftl wrote:
| Bryan Lunduke (former community manager from OpenSuSE) does a
| "Linux Sucks" Video every year where he (sarcasticly) points
| out all the failings of Linux on the Desktop.
|
| 50% painful.
|
| 50% fun.
| WhyNotHugo wrote:
| He's always very right in his criticism. He points out all
| the legit ways in which Linux sucks.
|
| Each year I think to myself "yeah, it's terrible", but then
| realise there's nothing better anyway. It sucks like we all
| do.
| worble wrote:
| "Linux is the worst form of OS, except for all the others"
| - Winston Churchill 1947, probably.
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| At 40:00 he says Linux desktop effects are back (e.g. Compiz).
| Anyone have more details?
| Enlarged9135 wrote:
| people still care for a meme?
| IronWolve wrote:
| Linux desktop experience does suck, but, BUT, the powerful tools
| and applications more than make up for it.
|
| Desktop isn't unified (X11 or Wayland), libraries are not
| unified, the drivers/sound system isnt unified. Its basically a
| bunch of different flavors with issues that you are stuck with,
| locked in with.
|
| Google Android has the same binary blob hell for drivers. Chrome
| OS has some powerful containers (on supported hardware),
| unlocking more power.
|
| Ubuntu versions are tied to projects, so google and other corps
| make you use what version they want to dev on their platforms.
|
| Redhat has the same issue, killing off centos community releases
| for a streamed os platform. (Same as Suse)
|
| Arch at least tries to fit the need of letting you upgrade, but
| you still have the same issues with a unified platform, but
| provides the applications, some apps are stale but at least they
| exist in their community repos.
|
| WSL is really just a platform to allow you to take the power of
| the terminal to do so many powerful things, skipping the desktop,
| allowing a windows desktop that solves all the issues linux has.
|
| Pretty much, Windows with WSL, and Android emulation, you can do
| anything. The only pure linux I have at home now is pi machine,
| and I only use it as a console box.
|
| But I still play with Arch in vmware (vmware supports nested
| virtualization, virtualbox doesnt). Its amazing the power windows
| can unlock linux
|
| Now when the m2 mac mini's come out, I might just have to play
| with virtualized linux as a desktop. Gaming, android/streaming
| can fill the lack of games, just as you can do on linux.
| goethes_kind wrote:
| >Linux desktop experience does suck
|
| There are sure a lot of improvements to be had, but I would
| literally go crazy if somebody took away my Linux distros and
| forced me to use literally anything else. Every other option on
| the market forces a completely different way of computing that
| is just ugly, inefficient, non-free and generally shit.
| ncmncm wrote:
| Linux desktop sucks, in absolute terms. Relatively, not.
| Windows desktop sucks. Mac desktop sucks. Chromebook sucks.
| Android sucks. Ipad sucks. Ios sucks.
|
| Our standards are just really, really low.
| selimnairb wrote:
| I have been using Ubuntu on a new Dell work laptop for the past
| 6 weeks and have been pleasantly surprised. Everything
| basically works. My only complaint is that the machine fails to
| wake from closed lid sleep at least once per week. So my M1 Pro
| is by far my uptime champ for laptops (I sometimes go 30-40
| days between reboots and it never crashes).
| [deleted]
| rascul wrote:
| > Linux desktop experience does suck
|
| Not for me. Blackbox on X11 is exactly what I need and want.
| Apps looking the same is not something I care about.
|
| > Redhat has the same issue, killing off centos community
| releases for a streamed os platform. (Same as Suse)
|
| What is this about Suse? I'm on openSUSE (Suse's community
| release) right now. 15.4 was just released.
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| If Windows was so bereft of design flaws why couldn't they
| provide a superior terminal experience without inventing WSL?
| pjmlp wrote:
| They did. PowerShell.
|
| WSL is for the folks that buy macOS instead of supporting
| Linux OEMs, because they couldn't care less and are happy
| witb whatever POSIX CLI they can get.
| all2 wrote:
| Because Powershell dev is opinionated -- necessarily so --
| and to appeal to Linux devs you need a way to make a Linux
| command line available. I had mine built to run Arch Linux
| and Fish terminal. It worked pretty well, but compared to a
| raw Linux machine it is slow.
| jsemrau wrote:
| I am using Ubuntu as my main Desktop for the last 15 months and
| am much happier with it than 15+ years on the Mac.
|
| Virtual Desktops is really powerful to structure different
| workflows. Office can be covered entirely though online
| solutions.
|
| Yes, Gaming doesn't fly. But that also holds true for a Mac.
| Just get a PS5.
| drdec wrote:
| > I am using Ubuntu as my main Desktop for the last 15 months
| and am much happier with it than 15+ years on the Mac
|
| But the million dollar question is, which desktop environment
| are you using?
| ncmncm wrote:
| I liked this one: "Linus Torvalds threatens to punish developers
| by putting Rust in the Linux Kernel"
|
| https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linus-torvalds-threatens-to-p...
|
| "I really didn't want to have to do this," stated Torvalds. "But
| you all screw around too much. Nothing seems to get through to
| you. Maybe a little time with Rust will teach you a lesson."
| Pr0ject217 wrote:
| lol
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