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The virtual machine I installed windows on to play games with kernel-level anticheat and other such spyware apparently isn’t compatible with windows 11. That’s a positive for 2 reasons, which are:
- It can’t run Windows 11, so no risk of a forced upgrade
- Windows won’t constantly harass me to upgrade.
10/10 experience, would not give give Windows access to bare metal again.
Can you do this with a single GPU?
Yes but it is very janky, it is barely better than a dualboot.
Also most kernel anticheats will bark when they detect they are running in a VM.And bark at the moon
they did convince me to upgrade to linux mint 22 tho
Read the room, Microsoft.
Hot take here, but I think both Linux and Windows suck. I’m just picking the poison most suited to my needs on each computer
This is basic life philosophy. Nothing is perfect, but you can choose which problems you want to deal with. Linux presents the least amount of struggle to fixing the problems it gives me, so I use Linux everywhere.
For me, linux only presented a few problems as the beginning, but became rock stable with time. I don’t even remember the last time I had to stop my work to deal with issues in my pc
then get a mac or bsd?
The only reason I got a Win11 computer at work is that the new box came with Win11 preinstalled.
Most work is still done on an aging Win7 box and my Linux laptop.
I sidestepped the win11 artificial requirements, and things are great.
Have they tried not being spyware?
Imo, even taking away the spying thing, windows design is just awful and they somehow manage to pile up fuckups and poor choices as they release new OSs.
It pretty much comes down to wanting to monetize the user experience instead of simply wanting to charge for the OS in the traditional way. The user becomes the commodity instead of the software.
They do charge in the traditional way for the OS.
They also charge the OEMs.
They just want more. The line must always go up.
Once again, the stock market ruins everything.
Hence why I went with “simply charge for the OS”. They are moving from monetizing the software to monetizing the user.
But yes, red line must go up
I mean… they force to upgrade people to OS with critical SSD issues.
No no no, you have it all wrong. Microsoft said it wasn’t their fault!
Please ignore the fact that you can fix the issue by rolling back the windows update that causes it.
If they just sold a very simple lightweight barebone version of Win 10 for 30-40 usd with regular security updates for the next 200 years, they could make so much money for eternity. Just sell those Apps/Widgets as additional paid apps, that is all you need.
But the app/widget spyware is what they want you to run.
True
I can’t wait for what comes first. The claudication and predictable extended support or the wave of malware paralyzing half the world over unsecured devices.
I think the latter is more likely. The former will only occur once MS is compelled by something that will force them into support mode, like a government or a lawsuit.
You will be shocked to learn that you can upgrade, for free, to Windows 12. It’s called Linux.
I’d go for Lunix, if the software I need for work would I run on it. Thinking about keeping Win 10 on a separate disk, since my laptop is not eligible for Win 11.
not trying to be one of those guys but trying to be helpful. What software for work do you need that won’t work on a linux distro?
I mean wine/winetricks is pretty much to the point now where you can simply download an .exe or whatever, double click it, and it’ll launch. I do this for several Windows only programs I have and they all work. And the thing with the Linux community is that there’s always SOMEONE that will insist on getting the most obscure drivers working on it. I once had this dongle from like the early 2000s that would allow you to plug PSX and PS2 memory cards into it. I thought “yeah I’d like to use this again, no way it’ll work on linux” and sure enough someone had actually made the drivers for it. I think it’s only me and the guy who made the driver that actually use the thing.
Thank you for the reply. I need to run Rhino 8, and apparently it doesn’t reliably work through wine. It’s my main software I use professionally, and moving to something like Blender is unfortunately not an option.
would this work? https://github.com/cryinkfly/Rhinoceros-3D-for-Linux
Thanks a lot! I looked into it, and it seems it doesn’t run the last version, but works fine with the old ones. I’ll look more into it!
My work computer had to be upgraded to 11
Why does my fucking file explorer stop responding so much?
I don’t understand how they fucked this up so badly
Have the not learned anything? In 30 years of windows releases???
To get customers to upgrade, they have to release Windows 12. We only upgrade every other major version, because every other major version is terrible. Including W11.
That every other version thing hasn’t been true for a while now. Every version after Windows 7 has been terrible.
Oh I thought Windows was discontinued after Vista failed miserably.
At least I haven’t used it since then, and it’s completely irrelevant to me.
Why others keep using it IDK, must be some kind of masochist tendencies.I thought Win2K was peak Windows, but I begrudgingly got comfortable with XP (using the classic Windows theme) then Win 7 after they ironed most of Vista’s kinks out.
Been on Linux since then.
But it would be unfair to say that masochist tendencies aren’t a requirement to be a Linux system owner.
All systems require some level of that. It’s just Linux has been rushing towards “less masochism” and Windows even quicker towards “more”, and we find ourselves at that sweet spot where they’ve the same level of requirement.
Frankly, I’d prefer this sweet spot to be more towards “less”, so I’m hoping Linux continues its trend.
Linux as my main since 2005, I dual booted for a couple of years to play games, because gaming on Linux was too limited.
Now gaming on Linux is amazing IMO. But yes every system requires some level of masochism, I guess we could call Windows the OS of choice for the more advanced masochists. 😋
Yea, people don’t use windows these days anymore, they just use iOS and Android.
Seriously, no joke, my parents have never actually used a computer. They just have a glorified pocket social media machine basically.
I upgraded from Windows 11 to EndeavourOS. No regrets, it’s a huge improvement.
