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.

  • Wayfar3r@lemmy.fmhy.net
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    1 year ago

    Grab a clean business editon ISO

    I haven’t used windows in a long time, but when I was tinkering with windows LTSC IoT was the recommended ISO because of no bloat. Is this still the recommendation or is there a better version?

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      1 year ago

      Latest LTSC is still on Windows 10 and the next one won’t be out till mid 2024.
      I have it running without issue on some machines - not sure how it is for gaming though…
      Like it’ll probably run most things but maybe there’ll be a loss in performance?