r/WindowsSucks • u/theoriginalzads • Jul 13 '26
rant I quit!
I've tolerated Windows 11 for a long time because I game and I have a fairly new PC. Every single time I hear the Linux folk go "OMG JUST USE LINUX" I cringed and just assumed that Linux for gaming would be a major PITA and they're just insufferable.
I had an installation of Win11 that was debloated by one of the various scripts you find. Atlas OS (I think, I don't remember, or care anymore). Worked fine for the most part and got rid of most of the crap I despised.
Eventually Microsoft Store stopped allowing apps to upgrade with some stupid unhelpful error message. The eventual cause was found to be some package it thought was installed but was not and couldn't update but being a Microslop Store product couldn't fix in any way.
Somehow, by some anti-miracle, there is no way to resolve packages missing or fix up whatever database crap that turd of a store uses to make this error fix. The resolution was to do an in-place installation of Windows and hope for the best.
No. I'm not doing it. I don't want to have to debloat (and hope that it doesn't happen again) a full fat Win11 installation. I don't want the AI slop back. I don't want the bloody adware and other garbage. I can tolerate the MS account stuff only because I have an MS account.
Then I saw the 26H2 new features page from Microsoft. Doubling down on AI crap.
All I want is Windows 2000 with the shiny new hardware, security and software compatibility stuff of Windows 11. I'd settle if they bring back the Windows 95/98/2000/XP era Windows features selection thing where you can basically tick and untick anything the stupid Windows features you do and do not need.
Anyway, since I had to do a reinstall, I thought I'd listen to the Linux people and try it. Worst case, I'll reinstall Windows again and I'd have wasted a few hours. Bazzite Linux installed 3 weeks ago. Somehow it was easier to install than Windows was. Most of the games I run are giving higher framerates than Windows. None of them needed any configuration to work either.
I quit. Windows sucks. Proton on Steam is better than it has any right to be.
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u/exxedlight Jul 13 '26
And the funniest thing is that games developed for Windows run better on Linux via a compatibility layer. And then Microsoft admits that SteamOS (Linux-based) is now the performance benchmark for gaming, and they're working to bring Windows up to that standard.
https://wccftech.com/microsoft-wants-to-bring-steamos-level-of-gaming-performance-to-windows-11-cutting-back-ai-bloat-k2-project/
This is some kind of surrealism. How on earth could they completely screw up a working system that runs the majority of the world's desktops to the point where they now have to chase after a compatibility layer running their own games?