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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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[-] CupDock@lemmy.world 195 points 1 year ago

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

[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Try doing it on a b650 motherboard that's so new the windows installer doesn't even have the correct ahci drivers

[-] daxter@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I bought a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and an Asrock X670E, I was upgrading and just transferred my Windows install but still.... No issues.

I'm no huge fan of Windows, but it sounds like you had (No offense) PEBKAC errors.

[-] ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m no huge fan of Windows, but it sounds like you had (No offense) PEBKAC errors.

I think so too and no offense meant to OP as well.

I am an early adopter of all things tech and so I had a Gigabyte Xtreme X670E mobo on pretty much day 1 to go with a 7950X. Everything worked fine on both Windows 11 and Linux despite being a pimped-up mobo and brand new CPU. At this much later date, OP's B650 mobo should be working without a hitch, especially with Windows (and almost certainly with Linux as well).

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So a similar experience as that of Linux? /s

[-] SloganLessons@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Sorry, could you repeat that? Slower, if possible

[-] PMmesexypajamas@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] overzeetop@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They’re wrong, of course.

You don’t have to enter a license key.

[-] zer0@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

Same on many linux distros but without having to enter a license key

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

Nah you have to spend at least an hour researching how to not create an account (spoiler: ther is no option, you just have to not connect it to the internet)

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a joke post. Which makes it extra funny, and quite sad, how many of the comment seem to think it's serious and are unironically chiming in with complaints.

OPs username is "Peter Poopshit", I wouldn't take anything they post seriously.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I saw SatansMaggotyShitFart or something like that making normal conversation yesterday.

[-] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Several people thinking this post is too stupid to possibly be real because they think linux users are smart says everything you need to know about this community.

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