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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    1 year ago

    Windows 11 snipping tool can also screen record. Browsers can view PDFs these days.

    Why would a standard user need any others? That would just be bloat to preinstall them.

    I’ve never seen TikTok or Netflix preinstalled on a clean windows install. Are you sure your experience isn’t from images setup by e.g. laptop sellers?