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-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"
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-
-## 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.