Ahh got it thx

Someone who gives up without even googling will def have that problem. But I for myself see the intervals in which my machine breaks increase a lot (and it’s not only because of more experience) and especially immutables could decrease the risk to break Linux to a point where it is close to zero (with the nice side effect that it is easier to maintain for both the pc admin and the distro manufacturer).

Also: My experience (and that may differ a lot from the normie perspective) is that as soon as you are able to check forums for help with software at least the beginner friendly/popular distros are less painful to fix when your Windows pc got screwed. And the overall tone in Linux forums has softened a lot compared to when I first briefly tried a distro in 2016 (I returned in 2020 during the pandemic because I had the time and proton had been announced).

Atm if you use Linux you either are computer-literate yourself or have someone in your circle (even if it is an online friend) who is and who can help and if we ever got to the point where a random normie suddenly has Linux on their machine I’d assume someone at the computer store will be able to fix it

Would suck if I paid ~200$ for an official Win 11 Pro licence just to have Microsoft fuck up my system to the point where I have to reinstall everything

My bad I’ve copy pasted the article directly into the post.

I REALLY wanna see normies “manually correct” their Win 11 machines after bragging about M$ supremacy for so long.

Pornhub video title would be: "Getting all my weak spots penetrated at once by software using ‘unsafe custom kernels’ "

True that, and Cloud Saves, Multiplayer and all these perks are free too

Good call, you wouldn’t need the cooler. Wasn’t sure if the CPU comes packaged with one but apparently it does.

Tbh if I wanted to spend a bit more I personally would go for a 4TB HDD too instead of 2TB and maybe a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD alongside the 32GB RAM

I made a build that would have included all of that alongside a Ryzen 7 5800X but that build would have been around 1000$ so quite a stretch from the 800$ mark.

(Tbh it would still fair better than the PS5 Pro if you were to purchase PS+ Essential for more than 3 years - with Extra and Premium it’s even worse and since PC games are usually cheaper the free games & discounts don’t really seal the deal for me)

Ngl your comment made me look up what I could get for ab. $800

RTX 4060 302.15€

Ryzen 5 4500 67.45€

Decent AM4 mainboard 57.07€

Decent CPU air cooler 21.07€

Thermal paste 3.01€

16 GB DDR4 RAM 35.20€

Semi-Modular 600W PSU 75.07€

500GB M.2 NVMe SSD 34.58€

2TB HDD 35.20€

Case 85.61€

Wifi card 25.10€

PC building tutorial: free on YT or just follow the instructions of your case and mainboard…

Software not included so people can look up what Windows officially charges them for showing them ads

That makes 741.51€ or $817.57 for a pretty damn good custom pc… And it could be way less if you went for 2nd hand parts / better deals

I would rather build it myself than buying a cheap prebuilt one from a no name bc a friend of mine tried that and got scammed and realized way too late sadly

Well, you can’t cheat if you can’t do anything