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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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[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I absolutely hate it. I have to use windows for my job and I'm used to moving and resizing windows with the. "super" key and i press it by instinct on windows the ad tiles viewer rears it's ugly head. I feel like beating it with a stick.

[–] fau57@leminal.space 2 points 1 year ago

I straight up think they did it because they want everyone on co-pilot.

[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

skill issue

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Being unable to delete OneDrive is reason enough to drop Windows imo.

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 2 points 5 months 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.

[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months 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

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[–] dashietm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hehe, installed both nobara and windows on my brothers pc. Nobara installed without issues, immediately usable with wifi. Windows didn't recognize drives at first, had to reflash the iso, i assume that was an iso issue not necessarily windows but you never know. Then, 0 internet, no wifi drivers :) Hotspot with phone and cable in order to make the pc have basic functionality, the true windows experience.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I love Nobara and will keep using it for my Linux needs but you must have got a borked .iso cause I've built windows machines for all of my friends from scratch and never once had an issue like that.

[–] 01011@monero.town 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Easy of use and general look and feel have always been less than ideal on windows. The real advantage of windows over Linux is hardware support. And don't say it all just works, because it does not.

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[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

curious but how could anti cheat work on linux

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