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.

  • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.idEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
    1·
    7 days ago

    Every time I have to use Windows I am amazed how Microsoft is ruinning it. Ads, unconsisitent UI, bad UX forcing you to be part of their Microsoft365 services shit.

    A friend of mine had his Desktop sync on a OneDrive account without really knowing why. And sometime the whole shit got desynchronized and it’s files and folders disapeard. The fix was to restart his machine while being connected to the internet :D

  • CupDock@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

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

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      1 year ago

      You missed the part where you either sign in with your Microsoft account or cut your Internet, remove the webcam, fake your own death, and do the secret tap code in the bios to just have the OS without letting Microsoft into your butthole.

      • mestari@lemmy.world
        0·
        1 year ago

        Windows 11 doesn’t force you do any of that. Just skip the sign in. Your points were valid in 8/10 era but no more.

        • jecht360@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          It depends on the version, but yes, it does. It’s especially a problem on prebuilt machines and laptops. It is incredibly annoying to work with in a corporate environment. Our helpdesk tech comes to me with issues related to this probably three times a week. I gave up with work arounds and we just have a throwaway Microsoft account now.

  • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    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.

  • Stuka@lemmy.ml
    01·
    1 year ago

    Sounds like the problem was between the keyboard and chair.