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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm normally a calm guy but anything involving windows makes me so frustrated. The thing doesn't even install without a wifi connection, and once you have been forced by Microsoft to provide your private, sensitive wifi details to their corporate shit cloud, you have like 20 dialog boxes to click where they want to fuck you over as much as possible.

Now after using Linux for so long, I can't even stand the way Microsoft or Google write to us in their services. The language is so incredibly lame.

[-] nookii@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It's shitty that they make you do this, but you can actually install windows fine without a network connection by using Shift+F10 to open a command prompt during the startup flow, then typing oobe\bypassnro, which will restart the startup flow with a new option to setup without wifi.

[-] turdas@suppo.fi 14 points 1 year ago

They keep making this more and more difficult. Used to be you could just choose between yes and no. Then they made it so you can only choose between yes and no if you don't have an ethernet cable connected. Now you have to use a hidden key combination and type in a secret command.

Soon you'll only be able to install without an internet connection by downloading a special ISO with a hidden download link. Soon after that they'll restrict said ISO to some insider program.

[-] Metallinatus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, so you have to type stuff into a scary command prompt to install Windows? Hilarious!

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

You don't need internet to install windows, I've done it with no network several times at work. Also all those prompts are defaulted to "no", so you can click through quite fast.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You can finish the install without wifi just fine, I did it when I was making an SD card for my steam deck with windows and didn't have drivers or a dock with Ethernet.

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