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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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How the fuck does anybody have trouble running Windows these days?
Some OEM's really fuck up Windows, leaving it in a practically unusable state almost out of the box with the amount of shitware that's on there.
Additionally, for Windows, some hardware vendors do a poor job of ensuring working drivers get installed by default. Sometimes the wrong, but similar driver gets installed by Windows on a fresh install and it can really bork things up. The same can happen on Linux, but it's easier to ignore a faulty driver at boot time with Grub and make sure the right one gets loaded. And truthfully I haven't had to do that since like 2005.
OP said this was a home build. Should be dead simple with a clean install.
Should be, but in the past I've seen Windows update, misidentify hardware and try to install the incorrect driver for it (last time I saw it was with a graphics card too). That could certainly cause some issues.
AtlasOS is your solution
Well, no. A fresh Linux install is my solution.