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.

  • KuroJ@lemmy.world
    34·
    1 year ago

    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…

    • I_like_cats@lemmy.one
      92·
      1 year ago

      Windows works fine most of the time. The problem is, when you do have a problem, you are screwed. Either reinstall or live with it. The chance of getting it fixed is like 20%

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        I discovered last night that I could run overwatch at smooth and solid ~144fps on max settings, I’m pretty sure I couldn’t do that on Windows, blew my mind a little