This “just use linux” mentality is peak broke-brain logic.
You think spending an hour every day troubleshooting and googling how to fix it is some badge of honor? Congrats, you saved $0 and burned the only free hour you had after work. Hope the “Freedom” was worth it.
Linux isn’t free. It costs time, energy, and attention — the three things high-performers guard with their life. Compile time, Maintenance, debugging, dependancies, cleanup — you’re bleeding hours to save pennies. That’s not frugality, that’s time poverty.
You’re not a developer. You’re a tired guy distro hopping at 10pm convincing yourself it’s “self care.” Meanwhile someone else paid $100 for Windows, finished a deck, hit the gym, and got 8 hours of sleep. But hey, you configured your system by hand. King shit.
And don’t even start with the “but privacy!” cope. 90% of y’all using Linux aren’t toppling goverments or hacking banks. You’re watching Youtube, checking Gmail, Twitter, and scrolling the same niche subreddit every night. You’re not optimizing for privacy, you’re optimizing for feeling morally superior while wasting time.
Time is the only real flex. You get more of it by buying it back. If that costs $100 for Windows, that’s a steal. If you’re in any field where leverage matters — CAD, Excel, Adobe — and you’re still compiling Linux from scratch like it’s 1999, you’re not serious.
This isn’t about being rich. It’s about understanding what moves the needle. High-output people don’t micromanage their PCs — they outsource. You want to be productive? Stop pretending Linux is a virtue. It’s not. It’s a time sink.
You lost me at “high-performers”. Go back to LinkedIn with those mega-corp mouth-noises
We might have found a victim of the “just instal gentoo” prank
When the copypasta it’s so good people actually think you are stupid. Congratulations, this infuriated me even when I knew beforehand what it was. Peak writing. Please don’t do it again, to much pasta.
I just use Debian and it’s completely fine, I don’t need to build an install from scratch or to compile the kernel. Just use linux.
“High performers don’t waste their time arguing with the void on social media. Congrats, you just burned the only free hour you had after work.”
Bro, you’re literally just like those you despise. Talking of badges, don’t prick yourself with that “Sheriff of Linux” badge you made it out that bottle lid.
Edit: Sorry, where the hell did that link come from!? I swear it wasn’t there when I last looked!
Funny, I’m trying to think of the amount of times my 8 year old daughter asked me to switch to windows because Linux has too many issues, and I’ve got nothing.
The real copium is thinking Linux is poverty, just to feel good about windows.
Quality copypasta!
Haha this is some good pasta.
Unpopular opinion, but I install Linux on my computers and they just work for like 5 years straight, with me spending exactly 0 hours each day fixing anything. Whereas I fix other peoples stupid printer issues and Windows becoming incompatible with the hardware or some nasty messages from some antivirus or strange software, multiple times a year…
I see however how some disgrunteled people would write something like this.
I’ve been on Linux for a year and a half now with zero downtime.
Been on this Windows install for 5 years or so, no hassle.
Hmm, interesting. But we all have different experiences anyway. I believe my mom’s computer “broke” twice in the last two years during some major Windows updates. One time some service pack broke a lot of printers for quite a while and she was affected as well. I don’t remember what the second incident was, since I didn’t fix it, but it also required manual intervention. And she doesn’t even do a lot with the thing except office stuff, documents and mails, so I doubt she was at fault.
I certainly also had stuff break on Linux, but it’s been kind of quiet the last years. But I’m kind of the wrong person to judge since I currently don’t take part in everyday Windows use. At least not when I get to decide and maintain the computer. But I feel it has improved as well. There has been a time where I had to install my gaming windows several times because the order in which I installed all the drivers mattered for some reason. It got cluttered and slower over time so I had to reinstall it during the lifetime of a computer. And I had friends infected with trojans and cryptojacking malware every other month or so. Back then I had a very comfortable life full of hubris with my Linux on the desktop. Granted, it needed more fiddling at that time, but that was acceptable. But times have changed and everything got better and it’s nothing like that anymore. And for a long time now.
I’ve been using it full time for 21 years, and dual boot for years before that. Early on it definitely took up a bit of time, but that’s mostly because I was interested in breaking things and learning to fix them. Even 10-15 years ago I don’t think I would have spent more than a few hours a month fixing things. These days it’s a few hours a year, and that’s only when I start messing around with something in a careless way.
Oh god, printer drivers are the fucking worst.
I only use Linux for servers, Win11 desktop. I don’t do any of this fooling around lemmy tells me I need to be doing constantly. Been a Windows admin for 15-years, same, rarely have to fiddle with anything. Same goes for the occasional Linux desktop.
dude is salty after removing the French language pack
Want more time? Just buy it back guys.
My computer “accidentally” installed windows 11 yesterday. So I spent all of today trying to fix all the stuff that broke. In the end it didn’t work, so I’m finally moving over to Linux soon.
Same, my journey with linux started when windows took too much energy and peace of mind
Bro, I average zero hours a day troubleshooting Debian. Shit just works.
The only troubleshooting I do is when I tinker and break shit, which the average user would not do.
Opensuse’s freaking rolling release just works. This stuff is very mature. It is just different and that scares people.
People are still trying to use the same arguments they did in the 90s-00s, but they don’t work anymore.
my friends started saying “Linux moment” whenever I have an issue with anything so naturally insay “windows moment” every single time their game crashes or they “need to reinstall graphics drivers”
oh no! it’s [insert excuse] not windows!
ITT: Poes Law
Almost got me lmao
Boring. 1999 called, they want their good, old Linux rant back. Seriously, I have heard every sentence of that before. Ten times and I have argued against all of it just as many times. Respect to everyone who still does but I have come to the conlusion that it’s just waste of time. Whenever I’m hearing these meticulous lists of complaints I know they’re not written by anyone who looks for solutions but just loves to complain and tell other people how stupid they are. That’s a lot more satisfying than feeling technically incompetent. You could just restart your system and be a happy Microslave ever after. There’s no need to bring down reasonable people who have kernels to compile and cryptic configuration files to edit on theiir green on black Tectronix terminals. Hahaha. Ha. Ha.
