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.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
    171·
    1 year ago

    I would reccommend you to not install W11, but install W10 instead. It’s more stable with all sorts of hardware.

    Also this could indicate an issue with the drive you’re going to install the OS on. Could you run some checks on the disk itself for failed sectors?

      • bob_wiley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows and they’d just upgrade it forever?

        I think they figured it would be cool, like OS X which lasted for about 20 years, then Apple moves to macOS 11, so Microsoft made Windows 11 and trashed their plans… as is tradition.

        • mestari@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh I never realised Apple OS naming moved past OSX. They don’t seem to use version numbers a lot in their marketing anyway.

          • bob_wiley@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            They always have some marketing name, but there is always a version number behind it.

            Big Sur was macOS 11, and they’ve been incrementing since then, I think to move to more of an iOS versioning model. 

    • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      1 year ago

      It worked fine on Arch. I finally found a flash drive and filesystem combination that the windows installer would both see and install when I put the manufacturer’s Windows 11 64 bit ahci drivers on. It was a scandisk usb 3.0 mini thumb drive and ntfs in case anyone was wondering. I have 7 other usb flash drives at my disposal, most of them I could see but not install the drivers and I tried ntfs, exfat and fat32 before giving up on each flash drive.