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.
Oh but average person don’t care about C compiler, torrent client, blah blah blah.
Yes, they care. When they need help with their computer, call me and I have to install 10 different programs to do basic stuff. And I can’t just type names of programs into package manager and install all at once, no no no.
I’d almost buy that as an argument if Windows wasn’t 90% bloat. So much built in adware, and they allow OEMs to ship with their own adware on top as well.