I actually use M365 and OneDrive. I still get periodic pushes to use these services on Windows 11. The upsell pressure from my OS is getting really bad.
The only thing holding me back from diving headlong into Linux is gaming support. I’ve been a windows user since W98. XP was the shit, 7 was rock solid, ten was pretty good, but it seems like Microsoft is dead set on speedrunning enshittification with 11.
Gaming support on Linux is the best it has ever been. Other than select games, nearly everything works now. It’s mostly competitive multiplayer games that don’t work because it’s the kernel anticheat that is the issue. Notably, Call of Duty and Destiny 2 don’t work. Halo does 100% work now, which is awesome. But if you mostly play single player games, you are probably totally fine.
True. Gaming is extremely awesome on Linux compared to a few years ago right now, though. Anti-cheat holding you back?
Everything on steam works except modern anti chat games.
If i knew it was this good… Woulda jumped sooner
Er, what’s a modern anti chat game
It’s a typo, should be anti cheat.
You can chat away to your heart’s content.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for example runs Ricochet Anti-Cheat on kernel level which fundamentally contradicts Linux architecture and will never run.
Easy Anti-Cheat is an example where the devs gave in paving the way to a proton addon which allows you to play Apex, for example.
A modern game with anti cheat software.
No, I’m not big for online gaming, just heard that not all games that work on PC work on Linux, and I’m not sure about the status of various emulators that I use.
Check out Protondb, it’s not only for the steamdeck, but (probably) all Linux derivates. You can sync your steam library to see, what works and how well.
I’m running Windows 10 and Linux Mint on my PC. I booted into Mint earlier this week, and out of my 189 (mostly older) Steam games, 186 work with no tweaks. It’s definitely worth looking at :)
I’ve got a Steam Deck which is essentially a portable Linux machine, and I’ve been positively surprised by how well every game I throw at it has worked (even the ones that aren’t officially verified to work on the Deck). Of course it’s an underpowered system compared to desktops, but Proton - the not-emulation system based on Wine - is absolutely terrific, and it can be used on other Linux OSs than just SteamOS. I’d recommend giving Linux a go on a separate partition, you might find that your games run pretty much out of the box as long as you have Proton installed
I regularly watch stuff about Steam Deck on YouTube and they’re always emulating just about everything. I don’t know anything about the subject but it seems to me it works pretty well on Linux.
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The only games that don’t work with a Linux solution are games that the developers have purposely done something that makes it not work.
Check out https://www.protondb.com/ Some games might require a little tinkering. The Vulkan api will win the graphics war because Microsoft hasn’t done much with DirectX and DX12 is not doing very well supporting the features it claims it can while being difficult to program. It’s only a matter of time before Windows loses it’s hold on the desktop. And Microsoft doesn’t seem to really care. They make their API for Azure work with Linux.
VR gaming is also shit on Linux. Mostly because it (similarly to Linux gaming in general) adds a layer of complexity and oddness you sometimes need to fix or debug… When you layer these kind of things the issues and complexity tend to multiply.
I highly recommend you try Linux gaming, it’s still not perfect, but has massively improved in the last few years.
They need to make sure users will have a good reason to upgrade to Windows 12.
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Just because a new Windows version is available doesn’t mean that Windows users will upgrade. My work computer is Windows, but I have still not touched Windows 11 at all to this day. But if the latest Windows is far better than the other available versions, then users and enterprises will likely want to upgrade.
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Through their OEM deals, you’ll have a hard time finding a new computer with anything other than 11
My HP came with FreeDOS.
https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/ is a good read on what this option really is. It’s clear that the intent on HPs part is to give you an option to buy the laptop without Windows garbage on it. Even if it’s a bit janky on it’s own.
A clean Windows 11 install is a Windows 10 install.
You spelled Linux wrong.
Windows 10 LTSC* for me personally
…with some registry tweaks to re-enable Photo Viewer, and the DolbyDecMFT DLL from a clean iso to playback surround audio
…and why at this point not just use Linux.
Sim driving setup ☹️
I use linux on my laptop though
haha pre-installed vendor garbage go brrrrr
The only clean install is with Enterprise edition and after using dism to remove everything and then sysprep and never actually attach your Microsoft account to the os.
Computer manufacturers often distributed buggy, pointless, or redundant third-party software (“bloatware” or “crapware”) to help subsidize the cost of the hardware.
To make more profit for the manufacturer, I think you mean. Until the cryptocurrency scammers came along and started stripping store shelves bare, you could build a computer from parts, it’d be cheaper than buying a pre-built computer, and it would be free of crapware.
Windows 10 pretty much did that already.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
For a certain kind of computer buyer, the first thing you always did with a new laptop or desktop from a company like Dell, HP, Acer, or Asus wasn’t to open the box and start using it.
Computer manufacturers often distributed buggy, pointless, or redundant third-party software (“bloatware” or “crapware”) to help subsidize the cost of the hardware.
This might pass some savings on to the user, but once they owned their computer, that software mainly existed to consume disk space and RAM, something that cheaper PCs could rarely afford to spare.
Computer manufacturers also installed all kinds of additional support software, registration screens, and other things that generally extended the setup process and junked up your Start menu and desktop.
The “out-of-box experience” (OOBE, in Microsoft parlance) for Windows 7 walked users through the process of creating a local user account, naming their computer, entering a product key, creating a “Homegroup” (a since-discontinued local file and media sharing mechanism), and determining how Windows Update worked.
Due to the Microsoft Store, you’ll find several third-party apps taking up a ton of space in your Start menu by default, even if they aren’t technically downloaded and installed until you run them for the first time.
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The closest thing to clean install is Ameliorated AME or Atlas OS. Check that out if you really need windows.
