Microsoft halts its aggressive Windows 11 ads in Windows 10.

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    3 months ago

    Too late. Steam Deck and Proton proved linux gaming is doable for most part, and my home PC is getting a UNIX next time I need to update the OS

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      3 months ago

      Switched to 100% linux a few months back.

      It is awesome, no interest in going back to that bullshit.

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        3 months ago

        Same, even running games that supposedly don’t work at all on Linux like MS Flight Sim (though, getting rudder pedals to work involved setting a udev rule to tell systemd that it’s a joystick (technically… 3 full range axes) and not a keyboard (really not sure how it came to that conclusion…)

        At some point I might try setting up a VM with a stripped down Windows that I pass stuff to for native or near native performance for the things I can’t get working, but so far I’ve not had anything I want to play that I’ve not been able to

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      3 months ago

      I’m a Linux SysAdmin, so I’m well versed in Linux. My server, laptop and phone all run it, but my desktop still runs Windows 10 because modding Skyrim (via MO2) is a pain in the ass (apparently there have been a lot of improvements in this area in the past year or two since I last tried).

      Windows is such a garbage OS. For the past week or so, ModOrganizer2 would hang for a few seconds anytime I attempted to explore the files of a mod I had installed. MO2 gave no hints regarding what the issue was. I searched for an answer last night and found it on GitHub: a disconnected network drive is the cause…even though everything I was accessing is local 🤦‍♂️ This apparently affects various programs and isn’t specific to MO2, since the person that posted the solution found the original solution in a Steam bug report from over 2 years ago!

      I unmounted the network drive and everything was back to normal! Fucking garbage OS.