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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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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. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] ThePac@lemmy.ml 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some OEM's really fuck up Windows, leaving it in a practically unusable state almost out of the box with the amount of shitware that's on there.

Additionally, for Windows, some hardware vendors do a poor job of ensuring working drivers get installed by default. Sometimes the wrong, but similar driver gets installed by Windows on a fresh install and it can really bork things up. The same can happen on Linux, but it's easier to ignore a faulty driver at boot time with Grub and make sure the right one gets loaded. And truthfully I haven't had to do that since like 2005.

[–] MrSilkworm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AtlasOS is your solution

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Well, no. A fresh Linux install is my solution.

[–] RichardButt89@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP said this was a home build. Should be dead simple with a clean install.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

Should be, but in the past I've seen Windows update, misidentify hardware and try to install the incorrect driver for it (last time I saw it was with a graphics card too). That could certainly cause some issues.