Linux sucks.

There, I said it. And I use it every day

It’s as bad as Windows in its own way.

The reason windows is the de facto OS is it all works out of the box. Users don’t have to muck around with things.

One example of many: I need to remote into another machine… What do I use? RDP is available immediately on Windows and just works.

Fine, go find an RDP client. Which one? We’ll, fortunately my version of Linux (wait, “my version” of the OS? Oh, cause there’s a million flavors of Linux), anyway, my version has an app store, fortunately. Now, which RDP client? We’ll, Remmina seems prolific. Wait, which version of Rrmmina, there’s like 6 in the app repository. OK, fine, I’ll use this one.

Wait, there’s extensions for it. Do I need any of them for RDP? Hard to tell, because documentation is all over the place. Some things have practically no description, so I’m not sure what they’re for/if I need them.

OK, ok, got Remmina installed. Punch in the IP address of the machine I need to RDP to. No go - bad security. What? I RDP to this box 20 times a day. OK, fine, Google the error message. Oh, you need downgrade TLS in Linux, because current versions have deprecated TLS 1. OK, fine, I have a link to the repository for that package. Run it. Fails to install. Gotta go make another change to permit reverting to a lower security standard.

Walk away, got other shit to do.

Two days later, come back. Reboot, because it probably needs it.

Try RDP. No go, same TLS error. Start thinking about it… Wtf- RDP doesn’t use TLS. But Remmina defaulted to using TLS even though I selected RDP as the connection type.

Why would I even think to dig into sub menus to change security from TLS to RDP when I chose a fucking RDP connection type in the first place?!

This is one of dozens of issues I run into when running Linux. Fucking printer notifications with no way to turn them off short of a command line, wtf? And this is on a supposedly user-friendly version?

Note I had Unix classes 35 years ago… Before Linux existed. I’m no neophyte. Now imagine trying to help a regular user with shit Ike this. I can’t imagine.

This before we look at app/file compatibility. People don’t have time to play fuck-fuck with word docs getting whacked because someone uses open /Libre office. Then there’s Publisher, PowerPoint, OneNote and SharePoint. User management via the domain, Group Policy, Exchange, SCOM.

Since Linux lacks a single unified system, trying to manage it via something like SCOM is a nightmare, unless you build everything the same. And if you’re going to do that, may as well use windows where this all works right out of the box.

Linux takes as long to install as restoring a windows box. The difference is windows works on first login, even with the annoyances. And let’s not talk about video or sound drivers on Linux. People still fight that (it’s way better, but nothin like windows).

And THAT is why Linux can’t compete with Windows on the desktop, even with the current BS of Windows.

So please, stop with this simplistic, naive bullshit of “just switch to Linux”. It’s tiresome to hear, it’s unrealistic, it ignores real-world limitations, requirements, and concerns.

It’s different, not easier - it comes with it’s own set of issues.

TANSTAAFL