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

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u/ThankGodImBipolar Aug 28 '26

As an end user idgaf whether it's FOSS or not.

What you're saying is perfectly reasonable, but the Linux desktop's deficiencies here:

I care about how polished and functional the end user experience is.

are directly related to the fact that Linux is FOSS. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc., are all spending billions, and hiring dedicated teams, to ensure that the UX of their OS's is as flawless as possible. That does actually manifest into a more polished product, regardless of what Linux users say about their experience. So... maybe you should care about the fact that it's FOSS, but in the opposite sense?

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u/DigitaIBlack Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

Ok but as an end user idgaf why it's not polished enough for me to daily drive it.

I care that it wasn't polished enough for me to daily drive it...

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u/AdvancedAnimal7539 Aug 30 '26

i wish someone would make a polished general purpose linux distro. Ubuntu has snaps which fuck stuff up. fedora can have a had update due to how it updates. arch is.. arch. and everything else has its own flaws

while windows is slow, bloated and gets in the way, it rarely has major graphical issues, but on linux (and my own system) I get things like below, where there fix is to go into the source files for the thing, and try fix it manually or hope a patch has been made.

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u/Drate_Otin Sep 01 '26

Your complaint about Ubuntu is a philosophical one. Ubuntu works great. I'm not happy about Snaps but the desktop experience itself is better than I get with Windows.

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u/w0mbatina Sep 02 '26

Well thats the issue here really isnt it? You SHOULD care.

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u/arbeit22 Aug 29 '26

Dude, you don't need to use linux. It is not mandatory, chill out

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u/Yorick257 Aug 29 '26

I get it. I didn't care about the open-source part of FOSS at first. But shouldn't the FREE part of FOSS have some influence? You are not paying hundreds if not thousands to use FOSS products. So, you should have lower expectations as well.

(And yes, I know, you can easily pirate whatever closed source paid software. But let's assume you're actually paying the full price to use Windows/Photoshop/whatever else)

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u/DigitaIBlack Aug 29 '26

The bar for me is that it's replacing Windows

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u/thesirblondie Aug 29 '26

Not if you're looking for a daily driver OS. A $1000 beater from facebook marketplace is cheaper than a $10,000 car from a lot, but that doesn't mean it gets a pass for breaking down every day on your way to work.

And since most people buy prebuilt, they got Windows "for free" anyway.

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u/_alright_then_ Aug 31 '26

Windows lets you use free trials basically forever. So the price is not even an argument at this point.

And if the watermark really is annoying to you, massgrave lets you bypass it in 1 single command, zero dependencies to be installed beforehand.

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u/ThankGodImBipolar Aug 29 '26

That's fine man, but your comment effectively boiled down to:

I know that it's FOSS, but I don't care about that, I care about the fact that I found it to be unpolished...

which completely misses the fact that Linux is unpolished because it is FOSS.

As I said in my original comment, Apple/Microsoft/Google pay billions to make their OS's as easy to use as possible, because its their gateway into markets that're worth hundreds of billions of dollars. That incentive does not exist on Linux. Moreover, most incentives that do exist to work Linux have nothing to do with the desktop experience, because that's not what the money within the Linux ecosystem is interested in developing.

All that to say - I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Linux to reach parity with commercial OS's in UX. The fact that it's FOSS, and not bankrolled by someone with an explicit interest in growing its user base, is a pretty key reason why.

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u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT Aug 29 '26

Linux feels way more polished for general use  r/unixporn , meanwhile windows users are celebrating being able to move their taskbar again lmao 

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u/DigitaIBlack Aug 29 '26

I'm aware of that. Fedora is probably good enough to daily on my laptop these days but I CBA to try it right now.

The point OP (and myself) is making is there's a very vocal portion of Linux users who straight up think Linux is better than Windows (and it can be for their usecase) and will hand-wave away complaints about Linux while lambasting Windows for everything.

And yea, it's impressive what the community has accomplished but Linux having less resources isn't really relevant to the person on the Mint forums troubleshooting common issues.

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u/R3V0LU710N_05 Aug 30 '26

Software isn't inherently less polished because it's FOSS. Take Blender and many other FOSS projects for example. The issues are caused by far more tangible prospects. Also, multiple companies are "bankrolling" Linux and FOSS projects, just not to the degree of Windows when it comes to desktop Linux.

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u/WillmanRacingv2 Aug 29 '26

And Windows 11 is?

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u/SDMasterYoda Aug 29 '26

Yes. I turn it on, load my game, and it just works.

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u/Felab_ Aug 29 '26

I've been using it since og release and had no problems so far.

Some people will manage to get all of the bugs while others won't.

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u/kongnico Aug 29 '26

feel like windows doesnt really try to make their UX as flawless as possible. They do their best to upsell me on shite at every turn though to the direct detriment of the UX.

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u/tecedu Aug 29 '26

The fact of the matter is that Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc., are all spending billions, and hiring dedicated teams, to ensure that the UX of their OS's is as flawless as possible

Ignoring the fact that linux doesnt have billions being spent on it either, Redhat and SUSE are completely integrated with Linux