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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not true. 11 very much still forces you to use an MS account.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is a secret command you can do to setup without Internet. But they hide it on the startup command line.

On the “Oops, you’ve lost internet connection” or “Let’s connect you to a network” page, use the “Shift + F10” keyboard shortcut.

In Command Prompt, type the OOBE\BYPASSNRO command to bypass network requirements on Windows 11 and press Enter.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You can just enter a fake Microsoft account and password. When it doesn't work, it gives the option to continue with an offline account (or at least whatever version I installed did)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So basically what @[email protected] just said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

sure, 7 months ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh sorry, I don't know how I got on this old post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very much doesn't my guy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Home won't let you do domain join, I think you have to go halfway through setup then select local account.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would absolutely anyone on this sub install Home? Microsoft themselves make a multi-edition .iso available on their website. And funnily enough now, Microsoft supports the hosting of massgravel. Should it take as many steps as it does two make a local account? No, but it's literally two extra clicks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We are talking about a product not for ourselves. Pro is twice the price of home as well.