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.

  • abrasiveteapotEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    OP claims to have successfully installed arch to confirm it’s not a hardware issue fwiw

    • Surface_Detail@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      This has big “the calculator isn’t working” energy.

      No sir, the calculator is working fine. The problem is somewhere between the chair and the keyboard.

    • holland@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Doesn’t mean it’s not a hardware issue, just means they aren’t running into it in their Arch install. But honestly this is probably just a bunch of bull.