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

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

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          Gigabyte apparently. They have drivers on their website. Windows 11 just wanted to be extremely picky about the storage device I used. There was probably a cd with drivers in the motherboard box but who tf has a cd drive these days? Just formatting ntfs on any flash drive is apparently not good enough. Also, no matter which version of the drivers I used, unchecking “hide incompatible drivers” was the only way to make anything ever show up. I’m 100% sure I was using the correct ones for the exact motherboard model and revision number.

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        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.

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          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).

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      It’s a joke post. Which makes it extra funny, and quite sad, how many of the comment seem to think it’s serious and are unironically chiming in with complaints.

      OPs username is “Peter Poopshit”, I wouldn’t take anything they post seriously.

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    ROFL windows is the easiest thing ever to install. Same with steam.

    Sounds like either you’re terrible with computers or you have some serious hardware issues.

    Blaming it solely on windows is a joke.

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    I cant tell if people in this thread are trolls, ultra elite linux shills, or just people incapable of following simple instructions…

    Like I get it, windows bad or w/e… But to act like it takes longer than an hour or two to install it, let alone 2 whole fucking days is just asinine.

    Imagine having enough of a skill issue that it takes you 2 days to install Windows OS. The OS that idiot proofs itself by literally holding your hand on every option and walks you through itself to install.

    Im not even joking, I re-install and have installed windows the past few years multiple times on personal devices for myself and my family and friends and even do it for professional devices and servers for my job. It is brain dead easy, enough that my tech illiterate grandparents managed to re-install it before I could make the drive to meet them and do it for them… I can’t take this OP or anyone else seriously if they can manage to install a linux based OS but somehow have 2 days worth of trouble with Windows OS…

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      Yes. I have done so many installs of Windows 10 LTSC in the last few years and even on HDD it doesn’t take that much time.

      This is a legit troll post. Despite Linux being better in some aspects, Windows totally steamrolls Linux on being easy to install.

      Heck W10 LTSC has been super smooth and stable for me for the past 2 years on my work machine which I tend to use more than my Personal Laptop which runs Manjaro.

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    ROFL, I like Linux, but if you can’t install windows 11 easily. The problem isn’t win11…

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    Nice bait I guess. Windows may have bad things, but I have no idea what you’re talking about here

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    Sounds like the problem was between the keyboard and chair.

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    How the fuck does anybody have trouble running Windows these days?

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    This is trolling or the actual issue is an PEBKAC issue.

    Windows has fallen far from grace in my opinion, but it is not the incompetent smoldering trash fire you are describing. You guys are doing something wrong.

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      Three options.

      1. PEBKAC in the extreme
      2. Failing hardware causing serious software issues
      3. Creative writing exercise.
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    I thought this would be a post complaining about the usablility of windows as a desktop, not the one thing windows does right…

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    I have Linux on my laptop but I have a Windows gaming PC and I’m honestly trying to figure out how could you not get steam to start? Never had an issue with that before…

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      Well I just installed endeavour os, used steam proton and all my windows games worked, if not better than windows…

      I think it’s finally there!