Nobody’s complaints with setting Linux up are that it runs slowly.

I mean, really depends on the device. I've got a machine running Mint and it kinda chugs along. But it's... I want to say at least 15 years old? Probably due for a RAM swap at the very least. Takes about five minutes to fully boot and if I run more than a few apps it drags.

At some point, there's only so much an OS can do for you.

The bit about incompatible drivers and the mess of third-party installs necessary to get it in a comfortable state also rang true. Plus all the minutea of configuration, so you're not typing in your password every time you sneeze. Windows does tend to come fully loaded out of the box, even if you're using a bunch of their mediocre native apps. And the desktop instance tends to be pre-configured to satisfy your average desktop user.

Of course, Apple takes all of this to the next level. Really straight jacking everything you can do so that it's a unform experience from device to device. And I hate that shit, too, even if my machine boots fast straight out of the box.

I thought Debian was as sluggish as Windows until I was forced to use the LXQt desktop environment instead of the default GNOME on an old Compaq laptop since that's all it could handle. Turns out, GNOME looks nice but it kept my old laptop's mid-2000s i386 CPU churning at 50% 24/7. LXQt? Barely a blip. Sure, it couldn't run Firefox quickly, but at least its fan was silent when idling or when I was simply using the laptop as a dumb SSH client into a much more powerful remote server.

I now use LXQt on my main workstation because I don't need fancy tilíng windows or Wayland.

The biggest fucking lie

I remember installing Arch on an ancient MacBook I've got. Set the installer going then put it to one side knowing it was going to take a while.

It took about 7 minutes.

Of course, I then spent two hours trying to get the fucking Broadcom drivers to work, but that's by the by.

I recently figured out that Windows installs can go way faster if you have a slightly better USB stick. I bought an Intenso High Speed Line 64 GB for 10.90€ and it cut down the time by half or even two thirds I would say.

Of course I try to avoid installing Windows in the first place, but I'm not just working on my own machines.

No offense, but what are you installing it on? One of the things I oversee at my job is imaging. Installing fresh windows on any of our hardware is between 7 and 15 minutes total. Since windows 10 I also haven't seen any need for additional drivers either unless you have something uncommon or want to replace one. Not trying to defend Windows, I just can't understand how everyone always has the worst problems imaginable with it.

Windows 11 took me 7 hours over 3 different days. Had to start and stop multiple times, had to retry multiple times, had to post support requests and wait, and to dive into bios because default settings that worked fine with Linux were making windows kill itself.

Oh yeah, my first try was downloading a Windows ISO and using KDE writer to put it on a USB, BIG mistake because we all know that windows sabotages their ISOs so that you can only burn them with a windows burner program.

Even when it finally worked, it still took a goddamn 2 hours and so many ads, so many "please also buy this!"

Once it was done I had setup windows with steam for my step son and then he didn't use the machine anyway

Arch install time is mostly user dependent Id say

That was exactly where I was like, “huh”? Cause Cachy took hardly any time to install and windows is notoriously slow.

They added a feature to archinstall that times your install and tells you how much it took. My record is 3 minutes, and it wasn't even on a super powerful gaming computer or anything (it was a lenovo ideapad 5 laptop)

The only time i had issues with KDE when i was using a PC with 384 MB RAM (plasma 4)

I wouldnt blame that on kde

That's why negative news sells so well.

You just have to have a good rage bait title and can write literally anything under it and the discussion will be about fantasies manifested in peoples heads based on the title.

Really looks like that haha

Most probably just read the title, saw the list and thought that’s too much reading

Sooo many commenters missed the last line apparently. It’s wild.

How is that possible? Is that a fake post, never posted to r/linuxsucks101 or has the mod there not read to paint 6 either?

There’s one here on Lemmy too. I got banned this morning for sharing this post lol.

Here’s a post from it defending Telemetry of all things.

It makes more sense if you see capitalism as a game and these folks as gamer fanbois.

He 100% going to be banned, I was banned with doing nothing wrong there. The mods there are bit crazy

I'm glad I got banned from r/linuxsucks101 before I got perma-banned from reddit