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.
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.
Compared to same linux distros, it is.
“Just a moment, we’re getting everything ready for you…”
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“Please wait while we do our magic…”
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“Click to here to create your Microsoft account…”
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“you really should create your account or Windows won’t be as good… are you sure you want to proceed?”
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“Are you sure? Microsoft accounts are the best! Enter your email address to continue…”
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“No account then, you weirdo. Click OK to proceed or uncheck these 20 boxes to avoid sharing all your activity”
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“you have chosen not to share all you info with us, are you sure? We are very trustworthy, click here to create your Microsoft account”
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“getting everything ready for you… won’t be long…”
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splat.