Linux Sucks 2021 [video]

Re:Linux Sucks 2021 [video] by arvigeus on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:26PM (#26206481)

Honestly I use Linux for the same reason people use Windows: out of familiarity. But progressively my experience is getting so bad that I am strongly considering Windows with WSL.

Example: My wifi drops occasionally. Enough to be super annoying. It used to work well, some update years ago skrewed it up.

Another example from today: Launching Steam bricks my system. No, I don't mean "Steam crashes". Not even "my DE crashes". My whole system freezes, and after hard reset it cannot load. Something something skrews config royally.

I am so tired of spending my weekends trying to find out what is wrong with my system now, instead of relaxing.

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Re:Linux Sucks 2021 [video] by throw_away892 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @02:51PM (#26207208)

Ouch. I can relate to a bit of some of your issues. What saved me from all these seemingly mysterious bugs is going with a pure Arch system. I was using Manjaro at the time and it wasn't fun patching it just so that it could break on the next system upgrade.

I digress, in my experience, whole system freezes usually points to system running out of ram and/or swap to fallback on. Might be worth checking out zram. Though this admittedly is a problem the Linux kernel has had for the longest time.

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