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.

    • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year 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.

      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

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

        I’d almost buy that as an argument if Windows wasn’t 90% bloat. So much built in adware, and they allow OEMs to ship with their own adware on top as well.

    • mestari@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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
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      1 year ago

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

    • 520@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

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

      Powershell.

      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.

      Last I checked, it does indeed have its own PDF Reader, whois tool, FTP client and screen recorder. It has a C compiler available but not installed by default.