I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones.

2 days later, no game has been played yet. We can’t even get steam to start. I even installed Arch on a sata ssd I donated just to verify the pc parts actually work (took less than an hour). It took 1 and a half days to even get the Windows 11 installer to get past like the 3rd screen.

Fucking fuck. Dealing with all this fucking bullshit is far worse than not being able to play a few trashy anticheat pay 2 win games. The anti Linux circlejerk is real.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      In my experience, installation of Win or Lin has been pretty easy. Lin has less options to opt out of (I like) than windows, but windows set everything up just fine. The only time I ever had issues on either is if I try to install without an active ether net connected. If I don’t have the os update during install, I run into random driver issues on either os.

  • CupDock@lemmy.world
    61·
    1 year ago

    People have trouble installing Windows? You enter a license key and click next a couple times.

    • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Try doing it on a b650 motherboard that’s so new the windows installer doesn’t even have the correct ahci drivers

      • Daxter@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I bought a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and an Asrock X670E, I was upgrading and just transferred my Windows install but still… No issues.

        I’m no huge fan of Windows, but it sounds like you had (No offense) PEBKAC errors.

        • ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I’m no huge fan of Windows, but it sounds like you had (No offense) PEBKAC errors.

          I think so too and no offense meant to OP as well.

          I am an early adopter of all things tech and so I had a Gigabyte Xtreme X670E mobo on pretty much day 1 to go with a 7950X. Everything worked fine on both Windows 11 and Linux despite being a pimped-up mobo and brand new CPU. At this much later date, OP’s B650 mobo should be working without a hitch, especially with Windows (and almost certainly with Linux as well).

    • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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      9 months ago

      Nah you have to spend at least an hour researching how to not create an account (spoiler: ther is no option, you just have to not connect it to the internet)

  • Notorious_handholder@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I cant tell if people in this thread are trolls, ultra elite linux shills, or just people incapable of following simple instructions…

    Like I get it, windows bad or w/e… But to act like it takes longer than an hour or two to install it, let alone 2 whole fucking days is just asinine.

    Imagine having enough of a skill issue that it takes you 2 days to install Windows OS. The OS that idiot proofs itself by literally holding your hand on every option and walks you through itself to install.

    Im not even joking, I re-install and have installed windows the past few years multiple times on personal devices for myself and my family and friends and even do it for professional devices and servers for my job. It is brain dead easy, enough that my tech illiterate grandparents managed to re-install it before I could make the drive to meet them and do it for them… I can’t take this OP or anyone else seriously if they can manage to install a linux based OS but somehow have 2 days worth of trouble with Windows OS…

  • nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
    1·
    9 days ago

    I have a Windows partition on my workstation. It serves really two purposes, some manufacturers issue firmware upgrades that you can only install from Windows and games. Recently that partition got scribbled and I had to re-install. The most recent Windows ISO would NOT install for me from a USB, I HAD to burn a double sided DVD to get it to install. Then within two weeks of installation it runs into an update that keeps failing. Gotta fucking love it. And this is Win10, I am not ever upgrading to Win11.

  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I have gotten so used to not dealing with windows that on the rare occasion when I do go back I find that I have to check my anger and aggression while doing so.

  • terry_tibbs@lemmy.ml
    0·
    1 year ago

    Windows 10 LTSC is the way to go if you absolutely have to use Windows, I’d love to use Linux on my gaming rig but Assetto Corsa + my simracing hardware doesn’t play nice at all.

  • espresso_con_panna@lemmy.ml
    0·
    8 months ago

    I recently just reinstalled windows on my gaming pc and arch on my laptop, and I completely agree with you. especially the fact that now windows 11 force you to sign in. I know it can be skipped, and average users probably wont care, but FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!

    archinstall is such a breeze, and in general for linux, I can control precisely what to install and configure it to be exactly how I like it, as opposed to windows I had to find some sketchy debloater scripts to remove all the craps, disable the telemetries, and hoping it doesn’t break anything.

    And if I break anything, linux always have detailed documentations, where as windows…its always some indian guy on youtube teaching you how to run windows troubleshooter and hand you more sketchy scripts

  • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    ROFL windows is the easiest thing ever to install. Same with steam.

    Sounds like either you’re terrible with computers or you have some serious hardware issues.

    Blaming it solely on windows is a joke.

  • Newchair@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought this would be a post complaining about the usablility of windows as a desktop, not the one thing windows does right…