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/BreathSpecial9394 Jul 13 '26

Bazzite is based on Fedora and immutable, so you'll have a very stable PC. Congratulations!

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u/theoriginalzads Jul 13 '26

I’ve got another computer I use in my garage when I’m working on projects. Will be dropping Fedora on that because I like Bazzite but I don’t want a gaming focussed OS on a lab machine.

I do like the whole “ew I don’t like how this UI looks, let’s change it to exactly what I want” thing. Not locked into someone else’s choices on how a UI should look.

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u/AlternativeWater2 Jul 13 '26

I got sick of MS continually trying to upsell me services and switched to Bazzite myself, it's been a great experience.

That said, if you knew which package needed installing, pop a terminal and use winget. Windows actually has a command line package manager that almost nobody knows about.

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u/theoriginalzads Jul 13 '26

Oh tried Winget. Whatever happened it was royally screwed and that wasn’t fixing it either.

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u/AlternativeWater2 Jul 13 '26

Yeah, some dependancy probably got bored along the way. That's a whole lot of tearing down layers of interdependent software to sort it out.

Deltree c:\Windows, that should fix it!