The thing is, I hate Windows.

I didn’t always hate Windows. I’m not sure I ever loved Windows, but at least before, I was more ambivalent about it. At least before, Windows itself had little in the way of bloatware. Used to be that if you wanted to blow away all the junk preinstalled on most Windows PCs, a clean install of the OS was the way to go.

Now the OS itself is chock full of crap, and it gets worse every day. Microsoft is determined to shove AI into every corner of it. They put it in fucking Notepad. Notepad! Then they stick ads everywhere. It doesn’t matter if I have an active Microsoft 365 subscription—they push it on me anyway, and hard. (I would whine about them pushing Edge too and not respecting your chosen default browser, but that’s basically a 90s throwback to when they did the same with Internet Explorer. That’s nothing new.)

On top of that, there’s an unforgivable amount of jank. Every time I use File Explorer, it makes me long for basically any Linux/BSD GUI file manager or even the macOS Finder. It’s unforgivably slow and unstable for such a critical component. And speaking of instability, wouldn’t it be nice if it could get through a day without the whole system slowing to a crawl and/or having random shit break? For me, the Action Center flyout (the bit that’s conceptually similar to the Control Center on Apple devices or Quick Settings on Android devices) decided to randomly stop working roughly five minutes into a fresh boot. That was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back, and what finally made me snap.

The worst part is, Microsoft doesn’t seem to care about any of this. They don't seem to care whether or not people actually love Windows. All they care about is milking every last cent from it, user satisfaction be damned. I suppose this has always been true, to an extent, but it’s even worse nowadays. Their flippancy and arrogance stinks to high heaven.

Anyway, yeah, really fucking mad I couldn’t get Linux to work on my gaming PC. Goddess, I really wanna get off this demented ride. 🤬

@digichelle You'll almost certainly find help here. Along with myriad opinions on which distros are best for gaming and why the ones you tried are the wrong ones. And, "open a terminal and enter this 20 different commands, paste the results of this log file, then enter these five different commands, then reboot, then open another terminal and try this, then download this driver and make it from source (oh, you don't have the C++ build tools? Well, duh! Who doesn't have the C++ build tools?).

And you'll eventually get it working, but good luck remembering HOW you got it right, because you'll have to reinstall one day and you'll have to repeat this whole process.

When Linux works, it works, and it's amazing (I run Mint on my personal desktop, and so far it's played every game I've thrown at it). When it doesn't, oi, what a mission.