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.
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.
Some things “just work” on linux where they don’t on windows. Fewer things “just work” on windows where they don’t on linux. The stuff that doesn’t “just work” on windows can probably be made to work with 1-2 hours of fiddling at most. The stuff that doesn’t “just work” on Linux will more than likely take most of your day to get working if you can get it working at all.