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[Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck. (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PeterPoopshit to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] CupDock 194 points 1 year ago (42 children)

People have trouble installing Windows? You enter a license key and click next a couple times.

[–] PeterPoopshit 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Try doing it on a b650 motherboard that's so new the windows installer doesn't even have the correct ahci drivers

[–] daxter 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bought a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and an Asrock X670E, I was upgrading and just transferred my Windows install but still.... No issues.

I'm no huge fan of Windows, but it sounds like you had (No offense) PEBKAC errors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m no huge fan of Windows, but it sounds like you had (No offense) PEBKAC errors.

I think so too and no offense meant to OP as well.

I am an early adopter of all things tech and so I had a Gigabyte Xtreme X670E mobo on pretty much day 1 to go with a 7950X. Everything worked fine on both Windows 11 and Linux despite being a pimped-up mobo and brand new CPU. At this much later date, OP's B650 mobo should be working without a hitch, especially with Windows (and almost certainly with Linux as well).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So a similar experience as that of Linux? /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You don't need those. They're built into your drive and even still, if they aren't compatible with a new architecture (highly unlikely) you can just run it in IDE mode.

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