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.

  • @[email protected]
    26•1 year ago

    Which edition are you trying to install? Are you using an up-to-date ISO?
    I’ve only ever used the business edition, and it’s never given me any trouble.

    1. Head over to the tools section in the megathread at [email protected]
    2. Grab a clean business editon ISO from one of the listed sources.
    3. Create an installation flash drive using rufus.
    4. Make sure all the legacy CSM crap is disabled in BIOS.
    5. Boot off the flash drive and run the installer.
    6. When you get prompted to sign in with a Microsoft account click “Domain join instead” (or something similar).
    7. Create a normal account but leave the password field blank (to avoid having to enter security questions).
    8. After you finish the setup and get into Windows, hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete and set a password.
    9. (optional) Go into settings and either enter your legally obtained key to activate Windows (it should automagically recombobulate itself into a matching editon) or read through the aforementioned tools section for an alternative 🏴‍☠️
    10. ???
    11. PROFIT You’ve installed Windows.
    • @[email protected]
      1•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?

      • @[email protected]
        1•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?