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Every time I see this story I laugh. Thanks for posting it.

I'm seconding the "no Facebook" thing, and I'd add "no Meta-Owned anything". Facebook is constantly showing me conspiracy flat earth shit with people honest to god arguing about it, and everyone in other posts strangely all comment the same thing or early similar things to the point that I've checked peoples accounts out to see if they are bots or not. Instagram isn't much better, and a LOT of it is basically soft-core attention seeking influencers. Threads.... Isn't giving anything better than what Mastodon offers.

I swear. One of these days I will pull the plug.

Totally 100% prefer distro or distro family + problem to anything in MS forums. My problem solving literacy has improved so much just by getting smart on terminal commands. I am by no means a pro and have a long way to go before I would consider myself even moderately proficient, but goddamn is the terminal satisfying.

It really is crazy how far it's come. I started fooling around a bit with Linux back when Ubuntu 16.04 was released, but didn't really get into it until 20.04. Valve and proton are incredible on the gaming side.

I was thinking more along the lines of whether my local wifi throughput was a bottleneck, not the connection on the other side of the router. As for the RAM, I'm sitting at 24gb, which runs smoothly on the host machine on both Linux and windows. Even when it is streaming the game upstairs, the host framerate is smooth--its the client that is stuttering if the host is running HL from windows.

Like I said, very strange all around.

Your guess is as good as mine. It runs well on my windows partition and probably slightly faster on Linux. I tried streaming several games, and they all lagged terribly. I tried resetting the wireless router, and installed Sunshine/Moonlight. With S/M, it would be fine and then about every 30-35 seconds it would lag for about 5-7 seconds. It was able to stream fairly smoothly at 720p if set to "performance" in the moonlight settings.

Everything points towards a slow local wifi connection, or something hogging the bandwidth in the background. I ran a speed test that came back with 250Mbit download/35Mbit upload, so it didn't seem like that was the problem. I also turned off OneDrive and ensured no updates or downloads were happening concurrently. I haven't tried doing a pcap because that's beyond the amount of effort I really want to put into it.

I don't really use windows for anything other than a handful of games I was streaming up to the steam link upstairs, so the easy option is to wipe it and start over I think.

I went over initially because I heard rumors of Windows 11 adding ads to the file viewer and that scared me. I prefer not having my hands held anymore.

I'm such a carebear. I've never played a darkside character because I love the supporting characters too much 😅

KOTOR 1. Taris is cool but let's be honest. I play that game because I like playing a Jedi. I've also played it from start to finish at least 20 times.

True, although I should have specified that I was talking about the computer generated models.

Same. I heard MS was checking out the possibility of adding advertising in the file explorer. I don't know the veracity of the reports or where I saw them, but it spooked me enough that I knew I needed to get started familiarizing myself with something else before I had no options.

I'll never go back. Ever.

I loved Windows 7. It hurts a little every time I come across someone still running it as a daily driver and I recoil in horror as I recommend basically anything else