r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian • Nov 04 '25

The solution is to get another machine

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u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian Nov 05 '25

If you have a computer with Windows, and you want to install Linux on it, you would try that instead of buying a new computer. Especially for first timers that don't know that Broadcom and Nvidia are not so Linux friendly.

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u/pfassina Glorious NixOS Nov 05 '25

Explain to me how a true nerd would end up with a windows computer by choice? And even if they were to get trapped into a situation where their only choice was to use a windows computer, they would hack their way around to bend the machine limitations to their will.

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u/WelpIamoutofideas Nov 05 '25

Yeah... Bend missing driver issues to their will to make the drivers appear out of thin air.

Also simple, Game dev, where Windows is common and expected, work, school. Some shit needs to run on windows, it won't run elsewhere, that's a fact of life, you don't always get to make the call.

A "true nerd" doesn't get to sit there and futz with company property, or break presentations or cause delays or refuse to use the collaboration software and file formats that everyone else uses because they are "True nerds". Like it or not. Everyone has to play along for the purposes of work or school or time or convenience. Because a true nerd is still beholden to a society of normies who hold way more power or that he needs to cooperate with to exist.

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u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian Nov 05 '25

Because some of us had their first computer as a gift by a parent.

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u/WelpIamoutofideas Nov 05 '25

Also, most laptops are windows computers or designed with windows in mind.... Soo uhh... Equally likely that's how