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wjs018 ( wjs018@lemmy.ml )  to Technology@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

[Opinion] Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron

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[Opinion] Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron

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wjs018 ( wjs018@lemmy.ml )  to Technology@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
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Op-ed: PC makers used to need to bring their own add-on bloatware—no longer.
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    True. Gaming is extremely awesome on Linux compared to a few years ago right now, though. Anti-cheat holding you back?

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      Everything on steam works except modern anti chat games.

      If i knew it was this good… Woulda jumped sooner

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        Er, what’s a modern anti chat game

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          It’s a typo, should be anti cheat.

          You can chat away to your heart’s content.

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          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.

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          A modern game with anti cheat software.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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

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        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 :)

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        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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