So over the past two days I’ve been wanting to play some GTA, and I’m tired of waiting for wine to slowly catch up to DirectX10/11. I just thought this would be a good story to share with the windows elitists, and also I need to let myself out after what has happened
So I got a cracked iso of windows 8.1, and straight away the install process was painful. It kept freezing in between the different sections of the installer. But eventually I got everything up and running, so I booted up my Linux live usb to copy GTA 5 from my ext4 home partition to a 200GiB fat32 one I made for my windows games. When I rebooted and tried to start the game, I noticed (well, idk how I couldn’t notice it, it was that bad) that the partition was extremely slow. Opening the folder alone caused the file explorer to freeze. I asked my step-dad if it’s normal and he told me 8.1 is shit and that I should install 7 instead. I had a modded version of windows 7 on my home partition, so I installed that.
It was in Spanish but I didn’t really care because I could just install one of those language packs to get english. The same freezes in the installer occurred. Once it was installed, I checked the partition and it was still slow. I also tried installing an English language pack through windows update but it didn’t work, I guessed that was because the iso was modified, so I found a clean English windows 7 iso online and once again reinstalled.
This time the install went smoothly, but the partition was still slow, so I thought that maybe it’s because I made it on Linux. So I decided to use a tool for windows to recreate it. I found an decent-looking article on the top of google listing a bunch of random partition managers, and used the first one there. When I opened it, my home partition was listed as being 500GiB for some reason, while the game partition was 2.1TiB. I didn’t think much of it and proceeded to delete and recreate the game partition. Then I tried rebooting into my Linux mint, and it froze for some reason, so I tried a live usb and found that the piece of shit corrupted my home partition. I didn’t know what to do, so I found a tool called ‘testdisk’ which returned a partition configuration that looked hopeful (similar to my old one), but my home partition was listed in gparted as ‘linux_lvm’ or something like that, and nothing I did could fix it.
So yeah, that’s why from now on I’m staying the hell away from windows. You could argue that it was my stupidity that led to this, but it’s not like windows has repositories with stable and tested software, so that’s my excuse. Either way I think I'll just stick to wine now. In the end I lost all my games, stuff I spent so long torrenting, music, save games, everything ;-;. I couldn’t even recover GTA
I wrote this on my phone, I’ll proof-read it for mistakes later
So I got a cracked iso of windows 8.1, and straight away the install process was painful. It kept freezing in between the different sections of the installer. But eventually I got everything up and running, so I booted up my Linux live usb to copy GTA 5 from my ext4 home partition to a 200GiB fat32 one I made for my windows games. When I rebooted and tried to start the game, I noticed (well, idk how I couldn’t notice it, it was that bad) that the partition was extremely slow. Opening the folder alone caused the file explorer to freeze. I asked my step-dad if it’s normal and he told me 8.1 is shit and that I should install 7 instead. I had a modded version of windows 7 on my home partition, so I installed that.
It was in Spanish but I didn’t really care because I could just install one of those language packs to get english. The same freezes in the installer occurred. Once it was installed, I checked the partition and it was still slow. I also tried installing an English language pack through windows update but it didn’t work, I guessed that was because the iso was modified, so I found a clean English windows 7 iso online and once again reinstalled.
This time the install went smoothly, but the partition was still slow, so I thought that maybe it’s because I made it on Linux. So I decided to use a tool for windows to recreate it. I found an decent-looking article on the top of google listing a bunch of random partition managers, and used the first one there. When I opened it, my home partition was listed as being 500GiB for some reason, while the game partition was 2.1TiB. I didn’t think much of it and proceeded to delete and recreate the game partition. Then I tried rebooting into my Linux mint, and it froze for some reason, so I tried a live usb and found that the piece of shit corrupted my home partition. I didn’t know what to do, so I found a tool called ‘testdisk’ which returned a partition configuration that looked hopeful (similar to my old one), but my home partition was listed in gparted as ‘linux_lvm’ or something like that, and nothing I did could fix it.
So yeah, that’s why from now on I’m staying the hell away from windows. You could argue that it was my stupidity that led to this, but it’s not like windows has repositories with stable and tested software, so that’s my excuse. Either way I think I'll just stick to wine now. In the end I lost all my games, stuff I spent so long torrenting, music, save games, everything ;-;. I couldn’t even recover GTA
I wrote this on my phone, I’ll proof-read it for mistakes later
