• 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Reminder that Microsoft is trying to shift Windows to be entirely cloud based, so this can easily happen overnight without your consent. You don’t own your OS. Linux is the only way, unless you’re one of those strange BSD folks.

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      1 year ago

      They aren’t trying to move to be completely cloud based. That was a bad headline that misconstrued what they were actually doing. The article actually just talked about how they wanted Windows to be fully streamable from the cloud as an option.

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        1 year ago

        That’s exactly how Office365/Microsoft365 got it’s start. Now, instead of buying a copy of Office, you subscribe to Microsoft365.

        I’m assuming that the path from cloud as an option to subscription based OS will be a little faster. To be fair, I wouldn’t be surprised if the stripped down locally installed version is offered as a Freemium option. Air-gapped and non-online computers usually just do one thing anyways. Most aren’t being used to watch movies, buy stuff, etc.

        My prediction would be that within 5 years, probably sooner, if you don’t subscribe to your cloud-based Microsoft Windows OS, you’ll have a bare-bones experience. Good enough for kiosks and such.

        Granted, you are correct, the article passed around only talks about how it’s an option right now, with some benefits… but we’ve all seen Microsoft do this exact same play before.

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        1 year ago

        Ik this is sarcastic but the video games issue is real regardless of Proton and its derivatives on Linux. Windows really is the best way to game right now

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          1 year ago

          I feel that this very much depnd on which games you’re playing. Competitive or Roblox, Windows is the better choice. Majority of the games I play though works without any issues on Linux.

          I’ve heard that some games even are faster on Linux even when running proton buy it isn’t anything I’ve myself has investigated.

          Gaming is one of my main intrests and I’ve been playing on Linux for at least ten years. It’s not for everyone I guess.

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            1 year ago

            It’s great that it works for what you play, but it doesn’t for me. Hopefully the steamdeck train continues to pick up steam, because it’s pretty much the only reason Linux gaming is gaining ground.

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          1 year ago

          The real problem is some developers being against Linux or the steam deck for the most childish reasons.

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              There’s many different reasons (all of them ignorant or blatantly made in bad faith) but one that I recall off the top of my head is that, since Linux gives users more freedom and more control over their operating system and computer, playing on Linux makes it easier for you to cheat in games. They like that in Windows, there’s parts of the system that Microsoft simply doesn’t allow users to touch, because in some cases, they still can, so they can use that to implement things like rootkits sorry I mean “kernel-level anti-cheat” that users have no effective way of removing or bypassing.

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    I switched to pop os recently and I’m never going back to Windows. It’s easier now than ever to switch to Linux, even for gamers. Steam, proton, and wine have made running your Windows apps and games in Linux so easy. You’d have to have a very specific use case to justify staying with Windows now.

    Here’s a fun one: I own two video capture devices, an Elgato HD 60 S and an Avermedia LiveGamer Portable 2. Both do not work in Linux. I found a simple USB HDMI capture device that works in Linux and cost a fraction of what thosmother overhyped ones cost me. It works way better than they ever did. That was one of my last adjustments. I can still stream my Switch and PS5 on Twitch, no problem.

    That’s a pretty niche use case and it was easy.

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      A good portion of popular multiplayer games doesn’t work on Linux due to anticheat issues (R6S, Valorant, PUBG, Fortnite, CODs, BF2042, Destiny 2, Rust, Escape from Tarkov etc) so it’s not as easy to switch to Linux just yet if you play any of those games. Not to mention lack of support from industry standard software such as Adobe etc.

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    Microsoft can’t be bothered to make a single, unified control panel but they have resources to work on shit like this.

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    1 year ago

    That’s what you get for using windows - software that might allow you to use your computer.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve never heard of microsoft pluton- that’s why I wasnt talking about it

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      I’m primarily a PC gamer and so many games would not be accessible to me if I made the switch to Linux, not to mention quite a few programs I use for my job. I tried to make the switch a few times and was not able to because of this.

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          There’s still a lot of games that don’t work in linux due to antcheat not working. A lot of the big online competitive games don’t work.

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      1 year ago

      Error

      Microsoft Pluton prevented an unauthorized file from opening. You are prohibited from opening this file because it may contain an unauthorized operating system.

      File name: ubuntu-22.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso

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    Yes, Microsoft exerting this sort of control over their operating system does deeply concern me which is why i switched to Linux and you should too

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      It is because of rumors about Windows starting to implement this type of measures that I moved to Ubuntu… That was shortly before Windows Vista came out, back in 2006.
      I never went back again, except briefly on an air-gaped machine under 7 to play Skyrim and Grim Dawn.

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        In other words, you switched out of fear of restrictions that still haven’t manifested nearly two decades later