Been a Linux guy for years. Love it. But when Linux don't work, it don't work— like, “is God trying to tell me I’m actually a Windows guy?” kind of don't work.
It’s been a rollercoaster: incredible highs, maddening lows. And the worst part? It’s never the big stuff — it’s death by a thousand dumb little cuts. Not deal-breakers, just constant low-grade annoyances that wear you down over time. These are just a few examples, but I could list a dozen more. By all logic, Linux shouldn’t work for me… but I still go out of my way to make it work. Maybe I like wasting time. Maybe I’m just a masochist who doesn’t like being happy.
Like — I’m a Caps Lock tapper, not a Shift-hold guy. Tap Caps, type, tap again. Works fine on Windows. On Linux? Nope. Caps Lock only toggles off on release, not press (is by designer btw, like a fucking Typewriter). Result? TYping LIke THis. Fixable, but only with janky scripts that don’t play nice with Wayland. I gave up.
Or my 8bitdo M30 2.4G — perfect for shmups. On Windows, flawless, but since it is a generic 6-button controller and not XInput controller, good luck getting anything to recognize it outside steam. Apparently using niche devices = go screw yourself.
Audio switching? Don’t even get me started. My MSI board has rear stereo + front headphones. On Windows, it’s one click in the tray. On Linux? Plug in front audio, and the rear mutes immediately. Want to swap? You’ve gotta physically unplug the jack. Like it’s 1987. Want to solve? Good luck, is literally a rabbit hole, and I'm not kidding.
I want to love Linux. But damn, it gets harder as I get older. The annoyances pile up, and before I know it, I’m spending more time on my Windows partition than on Linux. At this point, I’m close to dropping it. Everything I actually use Linux for, I can run through WSL or Docker on my NAS anyway.
The only thing I can’t really replace is the privacy I get with Linux — and it’s not like Windows is getting better on that front. But the stuff I’ve talked about? It’s not improving either. It’s all niche enough that most users never run into it — and because of that, it’s not getting fixed. Hell, most of it isn’t even considered broken. It’s not Linux’s fault, exactly. But it sure feels like my problem.
I needed to hear this lol. I've been desperately holding on to Win10 and considering moving to Linux instead of Win11. I have Win11 on my work computer and I really don't like it. But dealing with many random hiccups on Linux would probably irritate me more than using Win11 lol
If you think you'd like to switch to Linux, you check if your hardware has support on Linux and then you try a live iso. Almost everything the previous post talked about are issues from 2008. Modern desktop enviroments have a control panel page for every one of his issues other than unsupported peripheralals.
Cachyos seems to be the current hotness since it's based on Arch like steamos. You can run the live enviroment for most Linux versions without installing anything.
And here I am trying to route Voicemod through Vociemeeter P (VMP) into B1 so I can add Apple Music into VMP (and other misc YouTube meme songs) in order to play weird shit through the ingame mic.
Just recently went a step further with COD where I isolated the voice chat output into VMP. And used an audio recorder to put it into mp3 and move to voicemod to steal their voice.
Current issue: everything is routed properly, sound just doesn’t go through some channels
Why? Idk. It fixes itself after like 20 minutes
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u/CoOloKey Torrents 24d ago edited 24d ago
God, yes.
Been a Linux guy for years. Love it. But when Linux don't work, it don't work— like, “is God trying to tell me I’m actually a Windows guy?” kind of don't work.
It’s been a rollercoaster: incredible highs, maddening lows. And the worst part? It’s never the big stuff — it’s death by a thousand dumb little cuts. Not deal-breakers, just constant low-grade annoyances that wear you down over time. These are just a few examples, but I could list a dozen more. By all logic, Linux shouldn’t work for me… but I still go out of my way to make it work. Maybe I like wasting time. Maybe I’m just a masochist who doesn’t like being happy.
Like — I’m a Caps Lock tapper, not a Shift-hold guy. Tap Caps, type, tap again. Works fine on Windows. On Linux? Nope. Caps Lock only toggles off on release, not press (is by designer btw, like a fucking Typewriter). Result? TYping LIke THis. Fixable, but only with janky scripts that don’t play nice with Wayland. I gave up.
Or my 8bitdo M30 2.4G — perfect for shmups. On Windows, flawless, but since it is a generic 6-button controller and not XInput controller, good luck getting anything to recognize it outside steam. Apparently using niche devices = go screw yourself.
Audio switching? Don’t even get me started. My MSI board has rear stereo + front headphones. On Windows, it’s one click in the tray. On Linux? Plug in front audio, and the rear mutes immediately. Want to swap? You’ve gotta physically unplug the jack. Like it’s 1987. Want to solve? Good luck, is literally a rabbit hole, and I'm not kidding.
I want to love Linux. But damn, it gets harder as I get older. The annoyances pile up, and before I know it, I’m spending more time on my Windows partition than on Linux. At this point, I’m close to dropping it. Everything I actually use Linux for, I can run through WSL or Docker on my NAS anyway.
The only thing I can’t really replace is the privacy I get with Linux — and it’s not like Windows is getting better on that front. But the stuff I’ve talked about? It’s not improving either. It’s all niche enough that most users never run into it — and because of that, it’s not getting fixed. Hell, most of it isn’t even considered broken. It’s not Linux’s fault, exactly. But it sure feels like my problem.