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.

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    It’s definitely more frustrating. I’ve had a similar experience trying to help people with their Windows PCs. Thankfully I’ve managed to convince a few to switch to Linux Mint.

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      Linux users on Lemmy: People who don’t run Linux are just bad with computers and shouldn’t be using a computer at all!

      Also Linux users on Lemmy: Anyone else is unable to install windows from scratch?

      😘👌

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        Linux users on Lemmy: People who don’t run Linux are just bad with computers and shouldn’t be using a computer at all!

        I remember being part of these exact same conversations on other message boards at least 15 years ago.

        We’re all going around in circles here as history repeats itself.

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      I have found windows is easier to install every time. This is just another windows bad linux good post. Windows has so many issues, but installation is not one of them. Even my 10 year old cousin installs it fine.

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      Me neither. Linux is my main Operating System but… We can’t generalize one Windows experience just like we can’t generalize one Linux experience.

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      Yeah, I genuinely do not understand having used Windows, Linux, and MacOS. They are making it sound like it’s trying to decipher some unknown language. Even a quick YouTube would have solved how to install a exe.

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

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

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      It’s a joke post. Which makes it extra funny, and quite sad, how many of the comment seem to think it’s serious and are unironically chiming in with complaints.

      OPs username is “Peter Poopshit”, I wouldn’t take anything they post seriously.

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      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)

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    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

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    This is basically why I went to linux around the time of Vista. The amount of hurdles windows puts in your way is silly.

    However, it’s odd for the OS to work and Steam then not to work. I wonder if the windows store protections have been disabled?

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    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.

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    I’m upvoting this because it’s hilarious, but on a serious note, installing windows is so easy my granny could do it.

    The only thing, and I assume that’s where you struggled, is sometimes the formatting of the hd doesn’t want to work. In that case, a quick google will help you out, but also just format it quickly with diskpart and continue the installation.

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      This person is either cursed or idk what they were trying to do. Installing Windows literally couldn’t be easier, you don’t even need to think about partitions, you can just let it create them itself.

      I reinstall Windows every cca. 6 months to clear all the bloat i pick up, it’s really not that hard.

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

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    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.

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    ROFL, I like Linux, but if you can’t install windows 11 easily. The problem isn’t win11…

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    Windows has it’s serious flaws, and I would never willingly go back to it at this point, but the installer is too hard? This sounds like a you-issue rather than a Windows one.