 love Linux and I don't think that that is a secret for anyone I mean if it is a secret then you should take a look at the channel name Linux is right there in the title I adore so many things about Linux it's not even funny the community and the freedom and the ability to try new things and learn new things it's all amazing there are so many things about Linux that I just enjoy and there's a good reason why I use it as my daily driver I prefer it over every other operating system I've ever tried and it has enabled me to meet new people to learn new things it's just Linux is fantastic and I don't think if you're watching this video you disagree with that statement but all that being said there are some things about Linux and open source software in particular that I really don't care for and I would go so far as to say that I hate these things so what I'm going to do is talk about five things that I hate about Linux now some of them are specifically about Linux some of them are more about applications that are on Linux so to be honest with you I kind of had a reach for five of them so some of them are kind of superfluous so let's go ahead jump in the first one I'm gonna have a hard time finding anyone I think to disagree with this but tray icons need to disappear now I don't agree with the GNOME foundation on pretty much anything to be honest with you I don't like GNOME all that much I just like it less than I used to now that I've used it more often but it's still never going to be my desktop of choice and a lot of the decisions the developers make just make no sense to me but one of the decisions that they made a couple years ago to get rid of tray icons is a decision I think is actually the right one unfortunately tray icons aren't actually going to way so by taking them out of GNOME they've made it harder for people to use them and because they're not going away people have to use them so you're probably wondering Matt what are you talking about so if I actually change to my desktop here you'll see these icons up here these are track icons and unfortunately you have to have them so if you use certain applications the only way to access them when they're not in focus is through a tray icon so the one that is specifically for me the one reason why I had to turn on the tray in poly bar is pCloud pCloud has no other way to open up their preferences other than right clicking on the icon up here and going to preferences so that meant I had to enable the tray which is something that I hardly ever do because I hate it like it ruins the aesthetic of my rice and everyone knows how much I care about what my operating system looks like I spend a lot of time making sure that the look and feel of my distro is amazing and I have to mar it with these dumb-ass icons it drives me absolutely bonkers like seriously they need to go away now like I said that's not Linux specific really that's on every operating system they just need to go away just let me open up the application like whatever I don't understand why we're still in the age where this thing needs to exist it just doesn't make any sense to me so those things needs to go away I hate them with a passion that's actually the reason why I'm making this video because I needed to rant about those for a little while and I didn't think I could make a whole video just about triacons and have anybody actually want to watch it so moving on to number two the second one is one I don't know if anybody's actually ever noticed before but when you install Linux and this doesn't matter what distribution you're on when you install Linux and you open up the installer usually this is in GUI installers I've never really noticed this in a text-based installer like Arch Linux but when you're using a GUI installer and it pops up especially when you're using Calamari's but it does it with other installers as well there's a period of time where it is scanning your hard drives like it feels like it's scanning every single file on every single hard drive you have installed on your computer and that means that it sometimes takes many many minutes before you actually get started on the installer or before you can proceed with the installation so for example with the Calamari's one you can't actually start the installer like the install process until it's scanned your entire system it'll say process running at the beginning you'll have a spinning circle or something and what it's doing is scanning every hard drive so that knows what hard drives are attached to your computer but the problem is is I have let's see I have four hard no no I have six hard drives in my computer actually inside of it and I have two external hard drives so I have a ton of hard drives attached to my computer and when I install Linux I have to have the installer scan every single one of those things now it's not a big deal if I just had to see what thing what hard drives are available but it feels like it has to scan all the files in those hard drives like it's looking for other distros or something which is probably what it's actually doing that's the Calamari's one Ubuntu does it as well so when you click past the one setting where it asks you if you want a minimal install or whatever and you're moving on to the partition part of the installer the pause between that one screen and the next can run up to 20 minutes for me the same as it is with the Calamari's sometimes that can take up to a half an hour before I can even start installing Fedora does it as well so when I reinstalled Fedora and moved to the KDE spin this last week the part where you have to select the drive that you want to install Fedora on wouldn't actually let me get into there until it scanned the entire hard drive system on my computer so it had to go through all of them and that took like almost 45 minutes like it was horrendous it's gotten to the point now where I've considered just unplugging every hard drive except for the one I want to install Linux on so that I can just install Linux and then we plug everything back in because then I know I have to go through that 45 minutes of hell of trying to get that thing just to move on like don't like seriously you don't have to scan the entire hard drive it's not that hard like seriously LS BLK exists for a reason and it doesn't take that long to run LS BLK I'm sure there's more technological stuff that's going on there but I don't think that it's really necessary or at least you know what make it optional like just let me tell you where I want to install the drive just list out the drives I'm installing on that one that's the only one you have to install or the only one you have to scan so the next one on the list is one that I actually like so the application that I want to bitch about for a minute is Samba now the thing is is that I don't know of anyone who has ever had Samba work for them all the time so every once in a while you'll probably have a good experience with Samba because Samba is actually a very good technology what if you don't know what Samba is basically it's a application that allows you to set up folders on one computer and share them with everything else that's on your network it's a great little tool and the process for setting it up is actually not that hard the problem is is that it doesn't always work and the other problem is that it doesn't always work a lot like seriously I've spent so much time trying to get Samba to work between this computer and the computer that sits behind me like a lot of time and it's most of the time it just never works at all like I get it set up properly on this computer which is where all of my stuff resides and I want to set it up on that computer so that I can access to the stuff right most of the time that computer can never see the folders that I shared and I've set up Samba the properly like I know how to set Samba up and even when I say well maybe I'm just being an idiot and I don't know what I'm actually doing I go look at the instructions for how to set up Samba I follow those instructions and I still can't get it to work sometimes it does work like randomly it will work just fine and it becomes even more of a problem when you're trying to share files and directories between two different operating systems or two different distros that makes it even harder for Samba to actually work fine so well I wouldn't say I hate Samba I do hate the fact that Samba is not easier to use so the next one on the list is lack of support for third-party peripherals and this one doesn't actually apply to me that much but I have two things that I use that don't have great support so I have a focus right Scarlett solo I think that's the name of it's a Scarlett solo I don't know the brand name is it's a audio interface right it's what I plug my microphone into and it works fine on Linux but the problem is that there's no driver support on Linux so you can't ever update that thing you have to install Windows in order to update it and I'm never gonna install Windows so it's just going to sit in this firmware forever and ever I'm never gonna get to update it which means that when things break I'm not going to be able to fix it probably which means probably I'm just gonna have to buy a new one because there's some issues on there where like it won't actually send phantom power to a microphone like now now this help here 40 doesn't actually need it but I have one microphone that does and I can't use it because the 48 power 48 volt phantom power doesn't actually work on that audio interface another one is the trackball mouse that I use it has extra buttons and while I have found places where I can actually map those buttons to certain things I don't have access to the software that will actually give me full on support for the things that I'd like to program these those buttons for so the lack of support for third-party peripheral peripherals is not a good thing and I hate that Linux is so unpopular I guess that these developers just haven't taken the time to port their stuff over to Linux the biggest problem of course for a lot of people is going to be RGB and like AIO cooler support and fan curves software and all this stuff that is very well supported on Windows but has no support on Linux now the community has gotten together for a lot of this stuff and created workarounds but it's never all that great unfortunately it's definitely hacky right because they have to reverse engineer a lot of stuff and it's just hit or miss so one of the companies that is famous for never supporting Linux is Elgato and a lot of their stuff is just really good like really good hardware but it just does not work with Linux all that well and even though people have tried to make software to work with it it's still kind of hacky now the last one on the list is a thing that I have complained about on Linux for quite a while now as I talked about earlier I have a ton of drives installed on my computer some of them inside some of the external a few of them are still NTFS their NTFS because they were originally drives that I used on Windows they're originally formatted when I was using Windows and moving stuff off from there reformatting them to a more Linux friendly format and then putting all the stuff back on is just kind of beyond me at the moment I just don't have it would be some hard drive musical chairs in order to do that and it would just kind of be a pain in the butt NTFS support on Linux has gotten better over the last couple years that's for sure they have worked on making NTFS support in the kernel lot better however it's still not that great and while it does work it is also very processor or at least resource intensive so if I take you over to H top one of the things that you're going to see if we can find it is actually NTFS yeah you can see this part right here now it's not actually taking up any resources right now but it will spike when you use the hard drive course now that's not a big deal of course resources are going to be assigned to a hard drive when you're using it the problem is is that when you've done using it a lot of times that those resources remain taken by NTFS for some reason like at least on this computer even though at points where I'm not actually using that particular hard drive NTFS still takes up some resources now it's not that big of a deal for me because I have a ton of resources but I can see that if you're on like a laptop or something that is very limited in terms of CPU and RAM usage that that even that little bit of NTFS stuff that is always kind of like running in the background it's kind of a pain in the butt and it could be kind of worrying the thing that bothers me is that it exists in the first place like why does the NTFS that demon or whatever happens to be have to run all the time even though a lot of times I don't even have those hard drives mounted it's really really weird and it's not something that I I mean it's not that big of a deal but it's again every time I'm every time I open up H top and I see NTFS there even though I'm not using that hard drive at the moment you know I'm like why is that there like why is it running NTFS support is also like you can read and use your NTFS drive but the permissions on NTFS are broken on Linux I don't know if anybody knows this maybe I'm just doing something wrong but the NTFS drives on Linux when you mount them have wide open permissions and you can't change those permissions like they are read write and execute for everyone and that is not that's not great right you can't change them that's the reason why it would be great for me to put all that stuff on a different hard drive where I can change to a different type of hard drive system like at EXT for butterfuss or whatever it would happen to be right but doing that is still kind of hard it's like it's really hard when you have like three or four terabytes on a drive and you can't really transfer that to another drive really easily and then format that draw the drive that's NTFS then transfer everything back it's not as easy as it would seem to be with someone who has as many hard drives as I have so those are the things that I hate about Linux now I say hate right like mostly I've just used the word hate in this video because I'm going to use that as the title just because I want to you know be a youtuber but I don't actually hate anything outside of the triad cons like for the most part the rest of the stuff is it's okay like I put up with Samba because I'm always struggling with Samba and I think everybody who uses Samba struggles with Samba at one point or another that's just the nature of using Samba the peripherals thing that's just nature of using Linux because Linux isn't as popular as Windows therefore developers aren't going to take time to make software for Linux it's just the nature of the beast right I hate that it's true but what you're gonna do right kind of right the installer thing where it takes so much time to actually proceed with the installation drives me bonkers but I'm used to it at this point and like I said it some sometimes when I install Linux on a hard drive I just unplug the external hard drives that I have those are the big ones and that saves some time so that's you know it's it's a workaround I wish it didn't have to do that so like I don't I mean hate it doesn't keep me from installing so I've just gotten used to it the NTFS support one is just something that kind of bothers my brain like I don't know why it has to work like that like so I don't know why the NTFS thing bugs me but it does so what can you do anyway so that is it for this video in the comment section below if there's anything that you hate about Linux I'd love to hear about it if you think I'm off based on any of this stuff you can also leave those in the comment section below I'd love to hear about it if 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