lol. Imagine still using chrome.
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Only if I need to get old emails off that Gmail shit.
Just doing the lords work and spreading the news of W11 IoT Enterprise LTSC. It only has Defender and Edge; no Xbox, App Store, Copilot, nor Recall, or any other bloat. Perfect for gaming. Don't waste your time looking for it on sites like massgravedotdev.
And if you have lots of windows machines at home, running enterprise for whatever reason, dont look up vlmcsd and definitely dont look up the kms srv records to put on your home domain
Except it's not perfect for gaming. If you happen to have titles purchased through the Xbox/MS storefronts, you won't be able to play them. The version of windows you speak of lacks three critical system packages that allow UWP based games to work. Xbox Identity Provider, TCUI, and speech to text (some games rely on that for accessibility). If you file any bug report or ask for support from the development, they'll discard your ticket when they look at logs (unsupported OS). You also gimp yourself on feature sets.
You can install all the M$ Store and Xbox apps. Afterwards the XBox app will tell you all the other apps missing and a 1 click button to install each. It's just a nice clean blank slate to start with. It doesn't even have .net or vcredist installed.
What missing feature sets?
Edit: I myself install 2 needed dependencies to get Winget running after a fresh install. One has to do with UWP.
Jokes on them, I don't use chrome
Jokes on them, I don’t use Windows
Jokes on them I am still on NT4
jokes on them, i don't own a computer
Jokes on them, Edge doesn't respect my GTK theme.
Jokes on everyone. I'm already using Edge
Jokes on you, I've been edging all day.
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Windows in general is just fucking hostile to use. Everything they do now just seems like they are spitting in your face and laughing at you.
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Linux Mint isn't perfect, but at least it's not constantly trying to steal my shit or force something on me that I don't want.
I honestly wish I liked mint because there’s such a robust community for it, but I really can’t stand it. My first Linux experience a decade back or so was Ubuntu and it felt -right- like android. I liked it very much because it did all the things I needed, and it felt good to use, like something I was familiar with (android!). The power file management was an absolute bonus and I just love it so much. But it’s based on iOS allegedly? I fucking hate iOS on mobile but maybe it’s the macOS? Idk. It’s not at all like iPhone iOS at least.
And I haven’t found the same experience on any other distro despite trying several, so here’s me back to Ubuntu every time.. because it feels good to use.
And “Ubuntu bad because reasons” and I get that for not me, but I don’t have the energy to figure out how to make Debian do what Ubuntu just already does. And the really niche distros I’ve tried idk how to make work for my needs, as noob.
At least it isn’t windows..
This is a perfectly valid reason to like Ubuntu, and it mirrors my own reason for preferring Mint: familiarity with an OS UI. In my case, Mint Cinnamon is the closest I could find to the Win98 user interface. Back in the old days I also had Ubuntu, but then they switched to the Unity UI and I changed to Lubuntu. That went to the pits a few years ago, so I moved on to Mint. Just like you, I also have a preference for the UI, and I suspect that very many people choose a distro based on their UI preferences. That's the beauty of Linux: plenty of options for everyone.
I'm not trying to bash here, but sometimes I wonder what people actually do with their OSs.
I fire up software that I use, it would be quite consistent across any compatible OS, and we're ahead of the days when multi screens didn't work etc.
I'm on mint but any easy to install linux or even windows would give me the same workflow (after dealing with their bullshit ofc) except the terminal, and some other crap effectively. But on Linux? Smooth as a mirror, or what am I missing?
I doubt they do mich different than you do with their OS.
People are more motivated by feelings than actual logic. The person you are responding to even states that Ubuntu "feels good to use". That is some car advertisement level of feeling based reasoning.
Another thing is that people really hate it when things change. Especially a UI change. Every change in the Windows UI has been met with disgust. And if there is one thing different between linux distros, it's where they place all the buttons, menus, etc. So people prefer to stay with the distro they know.
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Games is still what keeps me on the absolute shit show that is Windows. Proton has come a long way in solving this problem but there are still enough issues especially with new games that I have to have a Windows partition.
I ripped the bandaid off last month, there's definitely fiddling and hdr is still in early days (works in gamescope, but found that can have issues with my nvidia card), I've been playing veilguard on proton ge for the last week, and proton experimental supports dlss frame gen now which is huge for me.
It's definitely in the good enough state imo, and it seems to rapidly be getting better.
Alright, I don't have anything capable of HDR so that is no worries. No (intrusive) anticheat, no game pass. I'm sure a few random games have issues. Doesn't sound like it should be a big deal though. Thank you
No problem, most games I've tried run without much fuss just with proton enabled. For others, protondb is great (pointed in the right direction to get Jade Empire running) or fiddling with settings yourself, gamescope helps a lot even if I've found it has some issues with nvidia cards (had games freeze with hdr for example), more of my issues are probably related to having an ultrawide tbh.
I'm mentally preparing for the switch. Would you mind naming some of the games keeping you on Windows?
Besides games that actively block linux for their anti-cheat, there aren't many games that don't work ootb on linux.
You can always check for specific games on protondb.
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I'm not the original commenter.
However any game with invasive anticheat tends to be allergic to Linux.
Microsoft game pass has really good value that isn't supported on Linux. (I'm told the streaming stuff did work but I haven't personally confirmed)
I have family that likes to play fortnite with me and that didn't work last time I looked into it.
Thanks for the help. I'm not fond of invasive a anticheat as it is, played like 10 minutes of Fortnite when it was a survival game, and I'm sure I can use the high seas to get around game pass. I'll have to check a couple of specific games, but I think I might be pretty good to go
This may be a silly question, but as far as online games that work, it shouldn't matter if my friends are on Windows, right?
This may be a silly question, but as far as online games that work, it shouldn't matter if my friends are on Windows, right?
For the most part it's fine like the other comment mentioned.
However there are a few edge cases like Borderlands 2 that is like pulling teeth to make work.
This may be a silly question, but as far as online games that work, it shouldn't matter if my friends are on Windows, right?
It shouldn't matter, Linux and Windows and Mac are all compatible 'PC' platforms. As long as the game is supported/runs, you should be good.
That's what I was thinking but I just wanted to make sure. I really appreciate all the help
Microshit and goo gle? Let them fight! Two of the most harmful companies...
Who do you think gets hurt if these guys fight?
Them, and its beneficial to the IT world
Haha, I was going to post this very meme.
I finally moved completely over from Chrome to Firefox this weekend. Fuck Edge, and fuck Chrome.
MS isn’t bothered because the vast majority of people don’t give a shit. “Many” is doing a lot of lifting in that paragraph. Its probably more accurate to say “…a few people distrust Edge…”
That's a shame since literally everyone should distrust Edge, given Microsoft's history with browsers (and everything else). I don't think anyone matches Microsoft's caviler attitude of "We know there are hundreds of gaping security holes that allow attackers to take full admin control of your computer, but we're just going to mark those bugs as will-not-fix and blame the users when something goes wrong."
Funny because Microsoft also recently dropped support for Firefox for Xbox GamePass Cloud Gaming on Android. I say "dropped support" but really they stopped letting you use the purpose built app and are now forcing you to use browser but the only "supported" browsers are Chrome and Edge. Firefox works, but they forcefully disconnected me after 5 minutes so it's not a matter of compatibility. They just want that traffic going through Edge ideally but they do still support Chrome, for now.
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