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.

  • ghostermonster
    1•2 years ago

    Yes! Really, how do you even calculate base64 using Windows? With freakn Microsoft Edge!

    Windows don’t have preinstalled git, torrent, PDF reader, stresstest, whois tool, FTP client, C compiler, screen recorder, disk imager, markdown editor, 7zip/RAR/tar opener. Most Linux distros have it out-of-the-box and with smaller footprint.

    Even Office. Office suite is not preinstalled on Windows, but on Linux is! But what is preinstalled is TikTok and Netflix download shortcut.

    • ghostermonster
      1•2 years ago

      Oh but average person don’t care about C compiler, torrent client, blah blah blah.

      Yes, they care. When they need help with their computer, call me and I have to install 10 different programs to do basic stuff. And I can’t just type names of programs into package manager and install all at once, no no no.

    • @mestari@lemmy.world
      2•2 years ago

      You fail to acknowledge that only a tiny fraction of PC users do anything resembling coding. The average user never ever needs a markdown editor or a C compiler.

    • @BassTurd@lemmy.world
      1•2 years ago

      Office365 is 100% installed on Windows, to a fault. The average and above average use dgaf about all that other stuff.

    • dream_weasel
      0•2 years ago

      Whoa hey, what about Xbox something-the-fuck and candy crush? I bet your Linix doesn’t have that!

    • OverzeetopEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Most of the things you say are missing are installed by default, though some require you to know how to use the command line. Which reminds me…how do you install the Netflix app on Linux? I’d like to watch some shows on my new laptop while I’m on the train.

        • OverzeetopEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          Yeah, but can you do it offline/without an active internet connection - the preinstalled windows Netflix app can.