5 Things I Hate About Linux

So I love Linux for my daily desktop driver, but there are some things that I hate about it. Here are the 5 things that I wish were different. .

[LiftedStarfish]

"Do you want Linux mass adoption" I do. I'm a gamer, and as soon as more people start using Linux, more devs will be porting/developing their games for Linux.

[ionciubotaru]

I completely agree with the "Design" point of view. Linux has the potential to look absolutely stunning

[DrewHowdenTech]

Do I want to see mass adoption of Linux?
Short Answer: Yes.

[Rankhole]

You know the video is gonna be good when the title is "Things I hate about Linux" and the first thing he hates is "Nvidia" :)

[rev]

im slowly "converting" my friends to linux one by one. :)

[pw]

My Pet peeve with linux is some people that treat linux like a religion..
Just kills it for mass adoption

[peterjansen]

I don't just hate Nvidia on the desktop, I hate Nvidia as a company.

[nikluz]

1: Nvidia drivers
2: configuration of peripherals
3: audio configuration
4: ugly apps (outdated 90s looks on most distros)
5: power management (suggestion to use DLP)
Bonus: standardization (lack thereof)

[SnowyRVulpix]

I want Linux to be the mainstream os. It’s time for windows to go.

[TopHatCat]

I personally would love Linux mass adoption, might just break the stranglehold of both Microsoft and Apple have on software.

[oldtechie]

Mouse wheel sensitivity. Would it really be that hard to have a GUI to control how many lines the screen scrolls with a turn of the mouse? The recommended solution is to use imwheel, which requires terminal, using an editor, install a line in the shell startup script, then invoke that each time I log in. Windows has had this feature since Windows 3 on top of DOS. I think it's just an example of what you describe as elite-ism, or I call it just snobbery. "We don't want people who rely on a mouse wheel, if you can't configure imwheel with our totally indecipherable non-documentation then you don't deserve to get to use LInux and we don't want to be associated with your kind" is their attitude. It dates back to the early days of Unix. There are hundreds of other examples but the simple act of customizing mouse wheel performance (and also pointer speed which never seems to work exactly right) should be in every desktop distro, but it's not.

[uncleeugene]

As a non english speaking person natively, i would add one more thing and the thing is obviously languages support. Yep it's all unicode and all that, but man, once you want to run two keyboard layouts at a time you get into a ton of small yet annoying issues. For example, Manjaro setup. You set the setup language other than english, and you can't switch layout to enter your latin-spelled username.. How is this behaviour still there? Another one is more sublte. I used to use Ctrl-Shift to switch layout. When typing, usually i want to start each sentence with a capital letter :) In some cases i need to switch layout before new sentence. I press Ctrl-Shift to switch layout, then i release Ctrl, i leave Shift down and start typing. That's how my fingers work for the whole eternity. And i get no capital letter. Cause for xorg to understand me i have to release Shift and press it right back again. This kind of shift-dance pisses the hell out of me... Yes, non of it is something we cannot live with, just like having a small splinter in your finger. You will not die, but you really want it gone. Sorry for such a long comment :)

[RogerBarraud]

You already have Linux mass-adoption:
Android (corrupted though that may be)
Internet infrastructure.
Linux *Desktop* mass-adoption on the other hand...

[pooglies]

Chris: "Sometimes when I shutdown or come up from hibernate my computer just freezes"
Also Chris: "I don't see what's wrong with systemd"

[Staycalm]

I would like more adoption of Linux, just so that we can get more hardware support and game support. i think even share amongst all the operating systems would be ideal, so that they have to TRY and compete and innovate to get mind share.


Also have tried out the powerline extra fonts. you can make your powerline look like its on fire or more futuristic. Thats if get bored of the normal anglar look.

[kevinsmythers]

Just spent 6 months running Linux on my daily desktop (I've got two desktops running Linux without issue - one for video acquisition from DVD one for playback and research/reference in my hobby workshop) and have pretty much decided to drop it for reasons 1 to 3 you mention. I know the hardware I like and trust - and Linux just has too many problems with it. I know I could spend hours tinkering under the hood and make it work a little better, but it'll never reach the ease with which I've used it under Windows. My old desktops have behaved impeccably running Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon - they handle power management smoothly (the workshop system hasn't had a re-boot in over two years - though probably because it's off the network and I don't update it), but my newer system currently running LM 19.2 Cinnamon crashes at regular intervals and either won't go to sleep or won't wake up. No amount of fiddling with it has resolved this to my satisfaction, so I shall strip out Linux and go back to the demon Windows. Not ideal, but I'll enjoy my system a lot more. One thing I know for sure is that I shall enjoy going back to software that works consistently. None of the applications that I've used in Linux (despite the community claims) does what it should as well as the equivalent Windows software. And it'll be a delight to get back to a 'fail safe' system that will run all of my RAID drives as they should be running. No amount of effort has enabled me to get this functionality in Linux, whether it's the hardware I use or the firmware my system has [called 'fake RAID' - whatever the hell that means - by some of the community] I do not know? I only know that Linux has been impossible to set up with hardware that almost sets itself up on Windows. Perhaps I shall look at Linux again in another 10 years to see where it's got to, but as it must be over twenty years since I first looked at Linux and have repeated that 'look' at least five times in the intervening period, I doubt that I shall see anything that will make me warm to Linux as anything more than an non-intrusive OpSys for old hardware and limited functions. That said - it won't stop me looking. It'll just stop me using it when I come across the same problems again - the only thing I think I can be sure of from Linux - unless you take into account some of the latest trends in Linux that look an awful lot like the slippery slope that Microsoft took when Windows was approaching the Vista release... Perhaps Linux will turn the corner, maybe some of the elitists you mention will grow and the whole community will mature to the point where they can be as helpful as one would wish - we shall see. This is, of course, my own measured opinion (so don't bother trying to enflame me - I'm not going there) after having spent over 45 years working with computer hardware and software. I'd like to love Linux - but it's just not quite there - YET. Perhaps I ask too much when I ask, "How does one set up a system with two graphics cards, three monitors, two SSDs and four hard drives?" - but that's a question that is totally redundant as a Windows user (simply because it just works).

[frataltay]

12:07 *_Say that to Android users!_* Do you know how hard it is to increase your freedom on Android?! It's FOSS on paper but on practice it's anything but!

[MichaelJHathaway]

** Chris, you are not wrong. I started programming computers 42 years ago and I laugh so hard when I watch your videos because I had these same problems over the years and not just with Linux. THESE are the #1 reasons why I am on Linux Mint. There are NVIDIA drivers right at install, printers and scanners function better in Mint than in Windows. Audio is functional right from the beginning and some of it is audiophile quality. Mint has so many options and their desktop is very polished will little manipulation. And yes, power manegement is already built into Mint. Several videos back, you just flat out refereed Linux Mint to new users. And for obvious reasons.

[acharris]

Mass adoption is the best way to break the monopoly that Windows and Mac have. It will force major companies to develop Linux compatible applications, removing the advantage that Windows and even mac has.

[QuimChaos]

And i thought that you were going to nominate:
1 - Ubuntu
2 - Ubuntu
3 - Ubuntu
4 - Ubuntu
5 - Ubuntu
Bonus - Gnome