This is basically why I went to linux around the time of Vista. The amount of hurdles windows puts in your way is silly.
However, it's odd for the OS to work and Steam then not to work. I wonder if the windows store protections have been disabled?
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Easy of use and general look and feel have always been less than ideal on windows. The real advantage of windows over Linux is hardware support. And don't say it all just works, because it does not.
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Using windows 11 is your first mistake, its ab uneven number windows, everyone knows the uneven number ones are bad. Or was it the even number ones? I dunno, windows 10 is better than 11 either way.
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There are exactly 2 things keeping me from switching to Linux full time.
Microsoft Office (I am aware of open/LibreOffice and the web version, but all are still lacking some feature or another)
Parsec hosting (I started doing weekly remote movie nights over the pandemic and parsec is basically the perfect drop-in solution for that)
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Even just installing windows is pretty bad. They include jack shit for default wifi drivers and won't let you complete the installation without an internet connection (and a stupid Microsoft account to complete their data mining 1984 tracking system) unless you use secret command line bullshit.
Never used W11. W10 works about 100x better than Linux and doesn't require me to memorize commands to punch into the CLI for mundane tasks or have 11 different types of program install processes.
I daily Linux for privacy reasons but you're delusional if you think Linux is easier to use.
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Took me 2 days to break my work laptop and now my brightness slider is gone. Absolutely hate it.
Yes. My previous job used Linux (and OpenVPN), but I started a new job recently, which involves Windows 10 (and three separate VPN apps) on my workstation, and it's driving me insane! I can't even find half the settings in looking for, the start menu is a mess (until I found OpenShell which introduces an XP like start menu!), and the eternal requests to restart the damn thing. It drives me nuts.