r/linuxsucks

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I’ve been using Arch for some time now because I value the DIY spirit and the ability to build a system that is exactly what I need. But lately, the community, especially on this sub feels like it’s going downhill fast.

I recently shared some of mine custom scripts, one of them being Bluetooth TUI script I wrote to replace some heavy, moody GUI apps.

Instead of a technical discussion about the logic integration, I was met with people calling it "AI slop" or dismissing it because it looked too polished.

When did we stop respecting the KISS principle? I thought the whole point of Arch was to ditch the bloat and build something better.

Instead, the community is gaining a reputation for being one of the most elitist and hated environments in Linux. It feels like if you don't do things the "1995 way" or install packages specifically mentioned on the Arch Wiki and your setup actually looks modern and efficient, you’re treated with suspicion or outright hostility.

This used to be a community of builders. Now it feels like a community of designers showing a big useless clock in terminals. Gatekeepers who are more interested in "calling out" others than actually improving their own setups. It’s a shame, because the Arch Wiki is still the gold standard for Linux documentation, but the people hanging around the sub are making the distro look bad.

I’ve replaced my heavy GUI apps with instant, stable fzf widgets that work better than anything I’ve found in the repos, yet the reaction is just pure cynicism.

Is anyone else tired of the ego-tripping here, or is it just me?

So i have 16gb ram(also zram), all the time I have a lot of firefox tab open, also had a vm running. So at one point my ram filled up and system got stuck , (I should have restarted immediately) so I just thought maaan, and started doom scrolling without restarting my pc , after 15 minutes when I look at my screen I see the blue screen of death ☠️, and that's when I force off my pc , when I tried to turn it on again my ssd wasn't working.

Has anyone encountered the same situation, did I do anything stupid

Edit: I'm sure my ssd is failing it has i/o error, tried formatting it, which worked, then tried reinstalling arch which doenst work, it shows I/O or smthn between the installion

drive link for log messages

What's so bad about Linux?

And what is better?

What's so bad about Linux?

And what is better?

I HATE Linux. Always have. But r/linuxsucks101 isn't doing the anti-Linux community any favors.

The sub spreads misinformation, which hands Linux advocates easy wins. And the members there also come off as so stuck on their own viewpoints that if a third-party listened to them, they'd probably scoff them. If you're going to criticize something, at least be factually accurate. otherwise you're just spitting gibberish. The whole place has become less about genuine criticisms toward Linux and more about circlejerking the same shit over and over, just like Linux evangelists do with Linux.

Real criticism of Linux exists and they're valid. That sub just buries it.

How many times have you heard "native" software fanatics ranting about bloated Electron apps, how much it annoys them, and so on? Yet it’s precisely thanks to this that they’ve gotten a mountain of useful software like Discord in the first place. No one would have bothered to make a native version for their Linux.

But despite all this, they don’t notice that their beloved Valve (what’s with the hatred of corporations, by the way?) and the Steam client are written using web technologies. Their GNOME Shell is practically a browser that renders windows. The entire interface is written in JavaScript, and on top of that, using the less-than-ideal SpiderMonkey engine. Meanwhile, KDE and QT advocates fail to notice the elephant in the room: QML-JavaScript (V4). (Funny enough, monkey-patching GNOME extensions is often more reliable than crashing, buggy plasmoids, etc.)