Reasons I still Hate Linux

inb4 if you don't like something then fix it:

shut up.

on the light side, I'm also going to use this site as a place to explore & record the solutions that I've found. Needless to say, most of them will probably become out of date and invalid after a few weeks.

that aside,

Reasons that Linux is Still Shite

I've been away from Linux for 6+ years.

I used to use it as my main driver, from age 11 to age ~23.

Now it is 2025.

Today (21st September 2025), I decided to install Linux on my second cheapy laptop. I bought it second-hand last year when my real laptop's screen finally bit the dust, but it's really just not strong enough to run Windows 11 these days. I spent weeks trying to decrease the system load to make it run better, but tbh I haven't tried the variety of "debloated" Windowses. Honestly I only use Windows because I need MS Office and Photoshop (amongst other apps), which (last I checked) still run like Jank on Wine, etc.

So today I took the plunge and installed Garuda Linux, a branch of customised Arch btw, and so far it's doing great. However.:

Here is a list of shitty things that STILL DON'T WORK PROPERLY:

• AUDIO VOLUME IS JUST TOO QUIET ON MY LAPTOP

• TOUCHPAD SCROLLING IS WAY TOO FAST

• CHROM/IUM DOESN'T HAVE MIDDLE-CLICK SCROLL

• TOUCHPAD SCROLLING IN CHROMIUM

• GOOGLE DRIVE STILL DOESN'T HAVE A NATIVE SYNC APP

• INPUT METHOD CONFIGURATION IS HORRIFYING

• SWITCHING IME TOO FAST ACTIVATES OTHER SHORTCUTS

• CUSTOM GESTURES REQUIRES SPECIFIC COMMAND LINE

• GESTURE IMPROVEMENTS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE AS AN EXTENSION FOR A DESKTOP SHELL (GNOME)

• MY WIFI IS HALF THE SPEED I GET ON WINDOWS

• CHANGING THEME CAUSES ADMIN-RELATED GTK APPS TO CRASH

• GTK HAS REMOVED CTRL+TAB FOR TAB SWITCHING, REPLACED IT WITH ALT+NUMBER, AND CTRL+TAB MOVES FOCUS SO THAT ALT+NUMBER DOESN'T EVEN WORK

• SNAPPED WINDOW GROUPS STILL DON'T EXIST

• GNOME DEVELOPERS KEEP MAKING EXTREMELY OPINIONATED DESIGN CHOICES AND REMOVING USER OPTIONS (like removing the Up button in the Files app)

• MOUSE CURSOR SIZE CANNOT BE INCREASED IN WAYLAND

• SYSTEM EMOJI PICKER PANEL DOESN'T WORK IN CHROME AND OTHER NON-NATIVE UI APPS

• GNOME SHELL EXTENSIONS CANNOT BE INSTALLED IN GNOME'S OWN WEB BROWSER

Do you understand yet why Normal People are never going to use Linux?