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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    11 months ago

    I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows

    Building a PC technically doesn’t include OS installation.

    Build it, boot your OS of choice from a live USB to verify the hardware all works, then walk away.

    I told my friends and family years ago that I will be happy to set them up with a working Linux installation and will support them as needed… but if they want to use Windows they are on their own.