From a49d25a1da39dfeced2716eb527f7b7f1c634728 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Youwen Wu Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 23:56:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fix: md link syntax --- src/posts/2024-05-25-i-hate-you-microsoft.md | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/posts/2024-05-25-i-hate-you-microsoft.md diff --git a/src/posts/2024-05-25-i-hate-you-microsoft.md b/src/posts/2024-05-25-i-hate-you-microsoft.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31bb69b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/posts/2024-05-25-i-hate-you-microsoft.md @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +--- +author: "Youwen Wu" +authorTwitter: "@youwen" +desc: "why we can't have nice things" +image: "./images/i-hate-you-microsoft-torvalds.jpg" +keywords: "microsoft, linux, windows, trash software" +lang: "en" +title: "i hate you microsoft" +--- + +## two terrible mistakes + +recently i decided to try valorant again after a 6 month hiatus (mistake 1). +this, of course, meant rebooting into my slowly dying windows OS that remained +dual booted and barely touched (mistake 2). i exclusively use windows for gaming +now as it's the last frontier that linux hasn't conquered. this has actually +been a great productivity boost for me as windows is so terrible that i _don't +even want to boot it just for games_. + +## spoiled by linux + +at the risk of sounding too much like i have a neckbeard and fedora, linux truly +helped me _enjoy computers_ again, after macOS and windows took that from me. +following a brief period of time configuring [hyprland](https://hyprland.org/), +i really felt comfortable with my desktop. i could switch around desktops, +launch applications, and shuffle windows like an extension of my mind. without +all of the baby-proofing and bloat designed for "casual users", everything was +instantly snappy and responsive (even compared to apple's famous UIs). + +immediately upon booting back into windows and being greeted with the ridiculous +ad billboard login screen, i immediately remembered why i despised it. even the +login screen was janky when i seemed to overload it with quick inputs. the +desktop stayed barely responsive for several seconds after and every single ui +action seemed to require me to slow down and walk it through each step, lest it +fail and refuse to register inputs altogether. it's astonishing how the biggest +companies seem to make the most terrible sh\*t. + +## but this isn't a post comparing linux and windows + +linux vs windows has been done to death, so i won't say more. the point of this +post is to vent my frustration with the _most basic things_ being so hard to fix +on windows. + +the first thing that happened when i tried to play valorant was a vanguard +(their ring 0 malware anti-cheat) error telling me that i needed to enable +"secure boot", whatever that did. i vaguely remember having to disable that to +get GRUB and arch to work. according to google, it basically forces you to sign +all of your efi boot partitions for dubious security benefits -- in other words, +make it harder to install free operating systems. + +ok, fine. i'll just re-enable this thing. surely it can't be that hard? + +the glorious arch linux wiki of course had an +[entire page](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot) +dedicated to enabling secure boot. while it was fairly straightforward, i ended +up lost in what i call "linux limbo", and so after an hour of trying, i gave up. + +> linux limbo: a stage of troubleshooting something on linux where every command +> seems to succeed, yet nothing actually works, and you're left without an error +> log to work with. + +whatever, i'll just enable secure boot, then boot directly into windows and +bypass GRUB.