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 Needless to say, most of them will probably become out of date and invalid after a few weeks.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, Proton 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

• GNOME DOESN'T UNMOUNT VIRTUAL DRIVE FOLDERS AFTER THE SYSTEM UNMOUNTS THE DRIVE

(if this is specific to my system then it shouldn't be)

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