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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

@Coreidan @PeterPoopshit ah, can you install windows without a microsoft-cloud account nowadays ? Please tell me how.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yes, I've set up several work computers without internet. You can make a local account on set-up.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It's kinda funny how many people have no problem at all with a cloud account on their phone but get a mild stroke when Windows asks them to create a Microsoft account.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Don't give it internet access during setup.

[–] zaph -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When it asks you for an email use "[email protected]" and use a random string of characters for the password. Congrats, you can now use a local account on setup.

[–] fatalicus 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or use rufus to create the USB installer, and it will ask if you want to create a local account, and some other things to make installation even easier than it already is.

[–] zaph 1 points 1 year ago

My answer was more for those stuck on that screen without a second computer to grab another iso on.