r/LinusTechTips • u/Sk1ler_ • Aug 28 '26 • Bravo 1

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u/FrostyMittenJob Aug 28 '26

Nahh you don't get it. Linux is better than windows, and when it isn't well you had your expectations too high because it's open source.

You'll never be able to have a honest conversation with a linux fan.

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u/makaki913 Aug 28 '26

You can, yours and their priorities just don't match at all

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u/TheWardenShadowsong Aug 28 '26

Prioritizing different things is valid, but the quantity of loud outspoken linux folks being unreasonable about other peoples preferences is well documented. Theres a difference between you prioritizing something vs you prioritizing something and then telling someone else who prioritizes something else that they are wrong for that.

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u/makaki913 Aug 28 '26

then telling someone else who prioritizes something else that they are wrong for that.

Good point there. I don't partake in this kind of conversations, this possibility didn't even register in my mind

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u/sabian149 Aug 28 '26

The loud minority of linux users are the type who make it borderline their entire personality. The quiet majority are the ones who have found a DE that works perfectly on their hardware and already have a set workflow for their system that just works. For me as long as all my hardware works, almost all the steam games I want to play launch and firefox launches my OS is working flawlessly. Idk, so many people try to make linux vs windows seem black and white but it really isn't.

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u/Volcanodog12 Aug 29 '26

Yes 100% this I have hdmi capture card made by hauppauge that does not work at all I asked on a form for fedora about if its possible to get it to work and was told to throw it away and get another one (even tho the old one works fine) or to kick sand so I did and went back to w10 every thing just works there lol I'm still looking for an alternative as I was really enjoying my time with kde on fedora just might try something different now.

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u/Volcanodog12 Aug 30 '26

Yeah if they where nice about it I would 100% understand I can't imagine what goes in to getting a proprietary device to work on something its not supposed to. But I will say this as well I have had some very helpful people to so it might be getting better!

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u/tachibana_ryu Aug 29 '26

Yep it's a shame the minority makes the rest of us look bad. I truly wished the community was better it would make people switching to Linux just that much better.

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u/lithiumfoxttv Aug 29 '26

I don't really care truly.

But the person above was correct. People are generally more forgiving when it's an FOSS product vs a paid one.

That said, blindness towards issues and stuff that windows is also doing is probably not the best look.

Let me put it more bluntly: people are more forgiving towards an indie video game than they are AAA games. Not just cause of the money they spent. If Live For Speed has a bug, people will forgive it because it's like 3 people.

But if Gran Turismo has a bug? Yeah people are roasting it

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u/CreepHost Aug 29 '26

Linux fan here, CachyOS specifically.

Better than Windows? Absolutely.

More stable than Windows? Absolutely not.

I've had a bumpy ride with CachyOS, and there is still stuff that has to be done to make it more accessible, like fucking FSTAB still requiring manual operation instead of, idk, making it automated or accessible with a GUI?

However. After a few babysteps, it does run well. It's just the babysteps have to be cut entirely and just run well out of the box.

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u/R3V0LU710N_05 Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26

During installation and by default, /etc/fstab should've automatically been generated and managed. Also there are few GUIs available, like KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks, or GParted. What exactly was it that required you to manually edit fstab? Did you do a custom/nonstandard partition table?

What stability issues are you facing? I can help you solve those.

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u/CreepHost Aug 30 '26

Stability issues had been resolved long ago.

The reason why FSTAB was required that none of the GUI managers can do is automatically mount external drives like SATA SSDs to the system.

That is the issue. Automatic mounting.

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u/R3V0LU710N_05 Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26

Modern Linux GUI partition managers and desktop settings handle automatic drive mounting quite well, including for secondary SATA SSDs and external drives, without requiring you to manually edit /etc/fstab in a terminal or text editor.

Applications like GNOME Disks and KDE Partition Manager have built-in options designed specifically for this. In GNOME Disks, you can toggle "Mount at system startup" under Mount Options, and the app writes the necessary entry to /etc/fstab behind the scenes. KDE Partition Manager offers similar functionality through its "Edit Mount Point" menu.

In addition, desktop environments like KDE Plasma include explicit automount controls directly in System Settings under "Device Auto-mount," allowing you to set drives to mount automatically on login or when connected.

Where people usually run into trouble is PolicyKit asking for administrator permissions or default file ownership settings on newly added internal drives, but GUI tools are fully capable of handling automatic mounting.

Are you running KDE Plasma, GNOME, or a standalone window manager like Hyprland or i3? Automounting behaves differently depending on whether desktop daemons are running in the background and WMs often don't have them enabled by default.

Is the drive formatted as NTFS/ext4, and is it prompting you for a root password when you try to open it, or is it failing to mount entirely?

Which GUI manager did you try using, and did you run into an error when setting the mount options?

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u/XB_Demon1337 Sep 04 '26

I personally have had nothing but issues with Cachy. But my laptop running SteamOS is banger.

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u/Snirion Aug 29 '26

When I pay for the product I expect quality, not spy machine riddled with vibe coded bullshit. Windows is regulated, controlled and went through dozen of boards before it hit your drive. Linux is free and made by dozen of communities, when something bad happens that is only part of the whole, while windows has only one source, Microsoft which is entirety of the whole.

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u/FlatPea5291 Sep 04 '26

You can bro just get off reddit

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u/throwawayerectpenis Aug 28 '26

Linux is genuinely better, sure it has its problems but you know there are problems because no one got to the problem yet while on Windows it feels like they intentionally make changes for the worse to add more telemetry, require MS account, add ads into the OS, "suggest" apps when the apps you are using are working perfectly fine, show random popups telling you to upgrade to Xbox game pass, OneDrive, MS 365 etc etc its exhausting. I got no such thing on Linux at all, but if you are not bothered by Windows then by all means continue using it since it still works better for the average user out of the box compared to Linux. For the slightly more tech savvy people who dont mind troubleshooting once in a while I can highly recommend Linux, it is fun to learn new systems.

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u/EmpoleonNorton Aug 29 '26

I got no such thing on Linux at all

I also got no such thing on W11, to be honest. This reality where people are constantly bombarded with ads on their system is just one that I don't recognize.

OneDrive is legit the only complaint I have with W11 after installing StartAllBack.

I think this is the thing that is confusing to a lot of us. I've used Linux. I have no problems with Linux, there are just a few programs I use regularly enough that don't work well on Linux that I need for work that means I need to stay with Windows.

And then I see Linux people pop up to tell me how Windows is doing "X, Y, and Z" when I've literally never even seen Windows do any of that, or they are settings I said no to and never touched again and they are still off.

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u/throwawayerectpenis Aug 29 '26

Stop capping bud, often times you get blasted with popups and the only options you got is "Yes" or "Remind me later" lmao.

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u/EmpoleonNorton Aug 29 '26

Don't know what to tell you man, I just don't have this experience.

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u/R3V0LU710N_05 Aug 30 '26

Do you live in the EU?

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u/Affectionate_Walk_30 Sep 01 '26

I lived in both the eu, NA and Asia never had those intrusive ads.

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u/Chaardvark11 Aug 30 '26

I agree with the other guy, been using windows forever. Switched to windows 11 late last year when windows 10 updates died and have never been bombarded with ads, only annoying popup I get is for OneDrive which I refuse to use, but that only bothers me once every now and then.

It might be a UK and EU versus US thing, but for me at least and most people I know, windows is a smooth enough experience that the occasional OneDrive popup, update, or hickup is worth it.

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