Windows 11 on my gaming PC began to act up in ways beyond repair. Out of frustration, I thought, “Fuck it. Forget clean installing Windows. Instead, let me flip the bird at Microsoft by installing Linux instead.”

Fast-forward to now, after attempting to install Bazzite and CachyOS, but failing. The Bazzite installers (both their new and legacy ones) wouldn’t even boot, no matter what switches I flipped in my BIOS settings. The CachyOS installer launched and ran, at least, but the resulting system hung at a black screen on boot. So I’m conceding defeat for now and prepping a new Windows USB installer.

I wish this wasn’t the case. I wish I could tell you all that I’m happily gaming on Linux. Alas, I simply don’t have the patience to keep banging my head against a solid lead wall.

Maybe I’ll try again sometime in the future. For now, I just wanna play! 😭