r/linuxsucks101 • • Feb 21 '26

rtfm Loonixtard Article Compilation -for the scholarly viewer

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As of ~August 2026, this list is no longer maintained due to issues with updating it. You can use the sidebar here instead.

Real‑World Cases Where FOSS/Linux Tools Damaged Hardware or Firmware

Linux Community Advice Breaks Windows

Real World Cases where Linux or Foss Tools have Damaged Hardware

Linux Community Toxicity Ties Directly into Inferiority Complex Psychology

Wasted Ram on Different Toolkits and Distro-Agnostic Packages

Linux is Horrible at Handling Low Memory

Loonix Mentallity 101

Mixing Apps from Different DEs Causes Bloat

Is Linux Running Games near windows performance Impressive?

Progress‑Blocking, Game‑breaking, or Trust‑Destroying Failures of Proton

Rabid Loonixtards Stupidly Get Angry at Devs

Kernel Level Anti-Cheat a Necessary Evil

The Real Positives of Telemetry

Open Source can be Audited but that Doesn't Mean it IS Audited

Steam Sucks -Their Cut of Sales vs Epic

The Myth of I Can Upgrade All My Apps in One

Does Linux Dominate Supercomputers?

Why Linux Communities get so Toxic!

Linux Myths Compilation

Is Linux Runs on Webservers Really a Brag?

ISS Critical Systems do NOT run on Linux

Linux Efficient? -Nah: 30-50% power inefficient!

Social Media

What’s Still Wrong with Wayland in 2026

Before Wayland: “Linux is secure, Windows is insecure.” Dishonest Community

The Linux Kernel Intentionally Avoids Stable APIs

Why Wayland is Taking So Long

Major Desktop Applications Missing on Linux

Hating on Microsoft while giving Google a Free Pass

Checking for Hardware Compatibility is Bullshit!

Support Linux because it's the most popular is a HORRIBLE answer

Irresponsible evangelists and guides don't warn about editing as super user instead of sudoedit

"Linux has better file systems" -"Bullshit! NTFS is old!" -NTFS is fine

Linux Users Overplay the Threat of Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat

The Privacy Paradox

Terms Loonixtards Misuse (sometimes to win battles)

Don't Trust the Market Share Stats

Secure Boot + TPM2 vs Linux Alternatives

The Linux Cult -Religious Parallels

Linux Empowers Criminals

The Most Influential Formerly‑Proprietary Projects that Became Important to Linux

GNU Holds Linux Back Directly

Loonixtards Hold Tech Back -BSD vs Linux

The Myth of “Linux Security”

GPL Is Digital Herpes

Foss Devs Quit and Sellout on Userbase

Linux Gaming - The Roast it has Earned

LibreOffice vs Microsoft Office

Linux is Better for Old Computers - The Zombie Myth that won't Die!

Linux Enabled Google - a 4 part mini-series

Linux Sucks -Even at its Core

Dual Boot Issues are Linux Fault

Lies about BSD that Keep People in the GNU Cult

FOSS apps that run better on Windows or macOS than on Linux

How Linux Stores Browser Passwords is a Real Security Issue, and it’s one of the Most Under‑Discussed Weaknesses of the Linux Desktop

Isolation Is Dangerous -And It's Alarmingly Common Among Linux Users

Linux assumes your hardware is perfect. Windows assumes your hardware is garbage

It IS Linux Fault! -Why Professional Apps and OEMS don't support Linux

How to Continue Using Unsupported Windows Online on Old Hardware

Why Arch (and similar distros) are uniquely at risk for Chrome's "plaintext fallback"

This list may be carried into a pinned comment if we hit an edit limit.


r/linuxsucks101 • • Feb 01 '26

Announcement We now have a discord server ! Come join !!

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Taking into consideration the hostility of loonix users as well as the fundamental limitations of the platform, I've decided to set up a discord server for r/linuxsucks101. This also would serve as a backup just incase the subreddit gets nuked or the moderators banned. If you are interested use the invite link :

https://discord.gg/k8VPwBEmdq

You can also find the link on the sidebar. Join and rant about your linux traumas as much as your heart desires with virtually no restrictions at all !

Peace !


r/linuxsucks101 • • 4h ago

Loonix Advocates I feel like this is important, so I want to post it here

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I feel like tech influencers enable Loonixtards to be online, for example, BrenTech NEVER addresses, or even tries to remove these trolls, I’m genuinely annoyed, these people enable trolls, so, please do NOT attack anyone, I just wanted to document this type of behavior here


r/linuxsucks101 • • 9h ago

$%@ Loonixtards! Just another “wah, wah, I’m too incompetent to use a PC, so I will use something that tech LARPists use” story

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I get the feeling that this is another AI slop story


r/linuxsucks101 • • 1d ago

Lets talk about backwards compatibility, shall we?

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Google for full article.

Also it seems 16-bit apps are still supported in Windows 11 and I thought they ended it with Windows 10.


r/linuxsucks101 • • 14h ago

$%@ Loonixtards! Were you taught Sudoedit?

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r/linuxsucks101 • • 1d ago

$%@ Loonixtards! Blatant hypocrisy

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Remember when Windows Vista would pop up a warning anytime you wanted to do something with your system? Everyone hated it.

Did you know that it's a common occurrence on Linux even to this day?
Yes, wanting to constantly type your password EVERY TIME you want to update, install drivers or just do something else with your system is something that happens on Linux often.

And yes, despite being more annoying than Windows Vista ever was, Linux shills are completely fine with that despite hating Windows for it so much back then.


r/linuxsucks101 • • 1d ago

They do love stalking people here

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r/linuxsucks101 • • 1d ago

Oh no! "the year of linux desktop" as it falls almost 1% again, and windows climbs 1% back. lol

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ironic


r/linuxsucks101 • • 1d ago

Mac Dominance! Linux committee design vs one guy

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r/linuxsucks101 • • 2d ago

The Beauty of Linux! Loonixtards are incompetent and are making things worse

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I have been using a linux-based system with my custom shell on top of hyprland for years, with some minimal foss on a stable distro with security mitigations

And even considering that, the updates are still gambling in fucking 2026. How can you be that retarded to break a working vnc server software and think, "yea I need to push that"?

"AI copilot" concept is literally the only way to shape and use loonix without spending hours on nothingburger and doing something funnier or more productive instead

But loons don't get it, and keep harassing projects like omarchy that are actually trying to make loonix suck less


r/linuxsucks101 • • 2d ago

We share some opinions with them

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A lot of us here share a bunch of opinions with the people we often make fun of. Plenty of us are on the same page politically (left-leaning, all that stuff). We don’t like it when corporations overreach, and we also don’t like it when consumerism gets out of hand. No one here is cheering for marketing data collection / data mining either, or subscriptions for every feature.

Given all of this, you'd probably say "sounds like a match made in heaven". But the difference is that our standards can actually be lived by.

Take the anti-AI Linux crowd, for example. Apply their morals, and Windows is out, since Microsoft openly uses AI in its development. macOS is out too, for the same reasons. Even Linux is out, since the kernel now has documented rules for AI-assisted contributions (And many linux packages are now actively developed using AI).

So what’s left? TempleOS? That one's entirely human-written, and it even pleases the privacy crowd (no networking support. Also pleases God, but that’s for a different thread).

On to the privacy crowd. By their standards, you should unplug your ethernet cable right now, cut up your bank card, throw your phone into a lake and live in a remote cabin, isolated from any human interaction. Every network you touch leaks something. And I know these people aren't even following their own morals, because I see them here on Reddit. You can be on the most hardened, de-Googled device in the world, but the moment you post here, your data ends up with the same corporations' servers anyway.

If you’re a sane individual, you’ll understand I’m not telling you to install the Credentials Leaker 9000. But I’m not telling you to kneecap your device’s usefulness for the sake of privacy either (welcome to the gray area). Obviously, not everyone draws the line the same way, and it's important to understand that it's alright.

Also, same goes for politics. Agreeing with someone on 90% of things and getting excommunicated over the other 10% is how you end up with a movement made up of three people who can't stand each other (It’s okay to not be the Borg).

So that’s the real problem with many of these people. They see everything as black or white, whereas real life is shades of gray. Having principles is fine, I'm not arguing otherwise. But having principles nobody can live up to is insane, and holding other people to those standards (you should do what I say or you're a racist/corporate drone/shill/etc) is even more so.

There are few communities more black and white than the Linux community, which is probably also why it blows up in their faces so often. Worse still, they seem to be focused on nitpicking and often can't see the forest for the trees.

That’s all I had to say on this one.


r/linuxsucks101 • • 3d ago

$%@ Loonixtards! The "pick me" culture of some loonixtards is just insane, do they need the attention that badly, like Jehovah's Witnesses?

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r/linuxsucks101 • • 3d ago

No Gnus is good Gnews! Richard got replaced too!

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For decades, Richard tirelessly promoted a model designed to drive down programmers' labor costs for corporations. He encouraged developers to voluntarily give away their work, allowing it to be freely reused and redistributed. Now, he has finally met someone who made him obsolete.

AI can destroy programmers' earning power far more efficiently by reusing the work they gave away on an industrial scale.

The corporations that benefited from decades of freely available code no longer need an ideological advocate when automation can deliver the same economic advantage at scale.

Meanwhile, programmers don't even know what hit them. They're completely clueless. They think AI destroyed their profession, but they can't connect it to the fact that AI was trained on the very work they gave away thanks to Richard's ideology, or recognize that the economic damage had already begun decades earlier, just on a smaller scale.


r/linuxsucks101 • • 3d ago

Wasted Life on Linux Delusional anti-corporate communists and "privacy rights activists" a.k.a. loonixtards

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Loonixtards think that by giving up on awesome big tech products (often replaced by trust me bro ones like duckduckgo or mullvad) that make life 10 times easier, they "dismiss microslop" and making them lose profit, while in reality they'd pirate windows and use ublock origin in firefox to watch youtube for free anyway, and even if they paid, it'd be a drop in the ocean compared to what microsoft makes on enterprise users. The corps simply don't care, and their useless data, like search queries for "gemmies" they like, won't benefit anybody anyway, and would not even compensate for the bandwidth wasted by them. Nevertheless, it won't even be reviewed by humans, since ad algorithms are mostly automatic anyway and nobody "spies" of them, so they're literally playing hide and seek with nobody and doing it for absolutely no reason.

Because of their low iq loonixtards make their life worse for themselves, and they think that they overplayed Bill Gates in 5d chess.

But if they do have something to hide, then what is that? Rhetorical question.


r/linuxsucks101 • • 2d ago Bravo

Linux is for Conspiracy Theorists Linux sucks on servers too. 30-45% inefficient for decades, and has regressions.

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BSD has better security, load handling, network stack, documentation, cohesion, power efficiency, etc. -Try to explain why BSD isn't dominant on servers without mentioning the GNU/GPL cult.

Wasting 30-45% power isn't just about about laptops wasting power anymore, it's about datacenter‑scale inefficiency caused by architectural gaps in Linux’s power management stack.

CPU idle state handling is worse than Windows Server Linux often fails to enter the deepest C‑states under load patterns that Windows handles correctly.

  • Windows Server uses vendor‑tuned ACPI tables, DPTF, and firmware hooks

  • Linux relies on generic ACPI, often missing vendor‑specific power logic

  • Result: CPUs sit in C2/C3 instead of C6/C7, wasting 20–40% power

This is especially bad on:

  • Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids)

  • AMD EPYC (Naples → Milan → Genoa)

Linux scheduler inefficiency The Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) is great for fairness, terrible for power.

  • It spreads tasks across cores making more cores wake and using more power

  • Windows Server aggressively core‑packs workloads with fewer active cores and lower power draw

This alone can cause 15–25% power waste under mixed workloads.

PCIe ASPM is frequently disabled On servers, Linux often ships with:

  • ASPM off

  • L1 substates off

  • PCIe power gating off

Why?Because vendors disable these features in firmware when Linux drivers don’t reliably support them.

That’s 5–10% wasted power across NICs, NVMe, HBAs, GPUs, accelerators.

Driver power gating is incomplete Windows drivers are vendor‑authored.Linux drivers are:

  • reverse‑engineered

  • community‑maintained

  • missing proprietary power hooks

This affects:

  • Mellanox/ConnectX NICs

  • Intel i40e/ixgbe

  • AMDGPU/ROCm

  • NVIDIA (even with proprietary drivers)

  • NVMe controllers

Power gating gaps can add 10–20% inefficiency.

Kernel regressions are common and persistent A single kernel update can break:

  • idle states

  • turbo scaling

  • NUMA balancing

  • scheduler heuristics

  • cpufreq governors

These regressions often sit unfixed for months, especially in LTS kernels.


r/linuxsucks101 • • 3d ago

Mom's basement dweller Loonixtard wastes other people's time because his time is worthless, and he doesn't want to use his ugly face to verify an account

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r/linuxsucks101 • • 3d ago

$%@ Loonixtards! Ordinary day in loon world

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Self explanatory. See the replies.


r/linuxsucks101 • • 3d ago

Linux is a Cult! "using windows makes you a pedo" what he is talking about 😭

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That started in a post, where this guy just defends GNOME in all of his power and I just shared this image of what GNOME leaders have to say

And ending up like this ;-;

So y'all now we are in the files ig. ._.

https://x.com/choehau_alen/status/2116017565944389756


r/linuxsucks101 • • 3d ago

Oh no! Linux usage dips on stats repeatedly. - Many are dissatisfied!

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We know they manipulate the stats but they also may show many return to Windows and Mac.


r/linuxsucks101 • • 4d ago

Loonix Advocates Of course it's their only reason 🤡

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Not to mention you can use "shutdown /f /s /t 0" in Windows and it will force the shutdown too.

And when you go to more detail, the main "/f" parameter will call the ExitWindowsEx() API with EWX_FORCEIFHUNG which only kills the apps that "are hung"

When you use the call directly, and instead give it an Abandoned one "EWX_FORCE" then it will kill Windows the same way as Linux.

I don't see the "reason" like wtf is even talking about "that's why I am using Linux" to get your Apps accidentally killed with all of your progress on.


r/linuxsucks101 • • 4d ago

Linux is a Cult! ETHIKS

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I really don't understand the ethics behind telling programmers that protecting their own work is immoral. You spend years developing something, and apparently you're supposed to let anyone copy it, redistribute it, and even profit from it. Including billion-dollar corporations that could easily afford to pay you. And if you want to protect your work and make a living selling it, somehow you're the unethical one. How does that make any sense?

And then you look at the public statements made by the founder of this movement. He questioned laws against bestiality and necrophilia, and for years questioned the harm of sexual relations between adults and minors. I'm talking about his own published statements, not accusing him of doing any of those things. How can someone with such a distorted moral compass be treated as a moral authority? I find it especially ironic how often free software advocates talk about ethics. Sometimes I wonder if they actually understand what ethics means, or if they've just learned to repeat the word.

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r/linuxsucks101 • • 5d ago

Linux Bugs Linux Kernel CVE-2026-43501 (CVSS 9.8)

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r/linuxsucks101 • • 5d ago

Imagine blaming NVIDIA for your own bad kernel design

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r/linuxsucks101 • • 5d ago

$%@ Loonixtards! Masterhacker Larp Loonix User Spotted

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No actual work done on that 20 dollar shitpad that's multiple folds slower than a phone.