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.

  • visiblink@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    You seriously haven’t had to provide tech support to relatives with MacOS. Windows is brilliant in comparison.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I hate macOS and I hate doing tech support over the phone. macOS never gives descriptive errors, I end up throwing in the towel much earlier compared to other OSes if I give up at all.

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      1 year ago

      Yep. Crappy errors that tell you nothing, and of course they want it dome over the phone.

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      1 year ago

      for me MacOS is the easiest os ever, installing apps is incredibly easy, solving some error too, updating etc. on windows I have had update problems, apps not running, to make it good enough you have to install more than 10 other programs, it is just not for me I guess