this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
207 points (99.5% liked)

PC Gaming

13397 readers
1543 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

If you haven't tried gaming with Linux, time is good if your windows install just bricked itself.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 69 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

For those experiencing issues with boot failures, we had to put together a whole new guide on how to fix it. While we wanted this out earlier, it takes a few hours to research and write it all up

but people say Windows doesn't require any tinkering! only Linux does! /s

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

We have W11 pro for work, it is janky AF. And I keep having to deplete the office AI.exe and aimgr.DLL stuff, otherwise it hogs the CPU, even when not using office.

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

but people say Windows doesn’t require any tinkering! only Linux does! /s

I've never heard that about Windows but I have heard it about Apple's shit.