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PeterPoopshit

[Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.

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lemmy.world[Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck. - Lemmy.worldI’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 circlejerk is real.
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GuyFi

Dude windows works like a charm for me unless I start fucking with the drivers I really hope that fixes itself somehow because I do think windows is a pretty decent os and it sucks that it’s having that big of an issue

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UID_Zero

I’m all for using Linux, and I’m considering moving my desktop over from Win 10, but I’ve never had any issues with the install of Windows. If it’s any level of modern hardware, it should mostly work out of the box.

These kinds of rants really trip my BS detector, because it’s just not that complicated. If you can handle Linux but can’t manage to even install Windows, I have a lot of questions.

kitsastro

@UID_Zero
original article was about laptop. and i can think of a few reasons why it wouldn't work
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GuyFi

Ok go on then I’m intrigued

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UID_Zero

Cursory Google searches will give you driver downloads. Dell/HP can give you a pre-bundled package of drivers.

Unless you’ve got some very unique hardware (or very old), it just isn’t that difficult to figure out.

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kitsastro

@UID_Zero
yah but old hardware plus new windows is my concern.

not that i care enough about this in my opinion windows 11 is for the rich only. people that can afford to get a new computer each four years

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