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You forgot forced microsoft account.
And "Age verification"
And "Telemetry"
It's wild that ~~people~~ politicians think they're going to legislate linux into age verification -- as if the community isn't half DIY techies who'd sooner set up shop in international waters than change their preferred settings.
If you don't take 30 seconds to look up the bypass on install. If you're capable of switching to Linux it's hardly forced in any way that matters.
On that topic. Weren’t they going to get rid of the oobe bypass nro thing? I reset a computer the other day and it still worked.
If I recall right, they were getting rid of one older unsupported way to do that, but multiple news outlets misread it as getting rid of the ability to bypass at all and then the story got spread from there.
Talk to your PC is basically what cortana was
Talk to your PC is just going to be Denholm Reynholm from IT Crowd.
Hello? Hello computer! Hello?!
I do feel sorry for them, but they can only lift themselves up. I can't really do anything to help. Linux has never been easier to set up than today. But it will always be a bit of a hurdle to make the switch.
I am very pro Linux and have been trying to migrate all my system but I got to say:
I installed windows 11 LTSC and disabled automatic updates, it’s not good but it’s also not this bad.
If your wondering why, pirating games isn’t very seamless on Linux yet,
Why would we pirate games when we have SuperTuxKart?
Don't forget SuperTux! It got a larger update just a few days ago.
Huh? Linux is the gold standard for running pirated games, mainly because of flatpaks and its sandboxing capabilities. The games won't have access to your filesystem and you can disable network access. Installing the games is as easy on Heroic as it is on Windows.
The pirates I know personally all have dedicated PCs to gaming. So none of them care about any files being stolen, or things like that. That’s not many people, so I cannot say it’s some good statistics. But I believe it’s true for many. If I’d pirate games (I’m not a gamer, and I see no point in not buying, if I’m going to play just one game casually), I’d do the same. Since my work PC is plenty powerful, I’d rather use it, but switch disks to not allow Windows to see it. (However, they are encrypted anyway.)
On the other hand, if the games would work on Linux, I’d rather go this isolation way. Sounds just many times easier to me.
Most games work on Linux. The ones that don't are online games with kernel level anti-cheats, which aren't relevant if we're discussing piracy anyway.
But yeah, a dedicated gaming machine with Windows is fine if that's the way you want to go. I was just arguing against the claim that running pirated games on Linux isn't seamless, which is wrong.
Works doesn’t always means works well. “Playable” on proton db has wildly different meanings to some people.
Thanks for explaining that! I was rather commenting on how it is for some of my old friends who game. I’m happy to learn that even piracy is better on Linux :) I may convert those to Linux then!
Many pirates do piracy for the lack of money (hence why many end up buying the game when they get money) so this is def an exception of the exception
Personally for me, i no long find pirating worth the time to set things up. The only recent good titles are mostly indi, and they are quite cheap. You can also find ultra cheap offers on not-so-old 3A titles. Also, my backlog is already 6-7 times longer of the rest of my remaining lifespan, so i have quite a bit to chose from.
Yep. Imagine that, using the specialist version of the OS strips out a lot of the bullshit.
I'll never argue that the suck inherent to Windows is OK, but anyone who thinks it's somehow completely unavoidable just isn't trying. It's always kind of shocking to see Linux users, who are at least on paper tech savvy, have complaints that include shit that can be disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu. Meanwhile they'll act like some of the arcane hoops needed to fix shit like sleep mode, hdr, or audio on some combinations of hardware and distro is just par for the course.
Personally, I find the better approach to convert folks isn't to create an insane caricature of the issues with Windows, but to go "here's the list of all the stuff you need to do to fix Windows, or you can sidestep it entirely with Linux but risk occasional strange hardware compatibility problems"
These are tools, not religion.
disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu.
Until windows decides you really should have that switched on and flips it back after an update.
If your wondering why, pirating games isn’t very seamless on Linux yet,
But playing on a SNES emulator is! :D
I pray you are deleting those roms after 24 hours
Nah. Seems like a hassle to go download them every day. Much rather just keep them ready to go.
Why would you even want to delete them after a day?
That's what I would like to know!
Back in the olden internet days rom sites would tell you to delete your roms withon 24 hours to stay legal
Ahhh, I see. I bet that worked as well as that time when people wrote on their facebook "I do not consent to any of my data or pictures to be used by facebook" lol
Indeed, it was just a cope on the rom owner websites anyway to skirt legalities
I'll be running Windows 10 LTSC until late next year on my work machine, but even I have issues where Microsoft Store keeps reinstalling itself after I gut it. If I leave it installed it causes BSOD and super slow startup times (Hours).
Three of those are the same thing (AI features) and all are easily handled through group policy.
You are using a version the has group policy right? Spoofing a Pro license with MAS Grave takes roughly 2 minutes from opening the website to finished, on a slow connection.
It's even easier if you don't set up a Microsoft Account during install of the OS. You did take the 30 seconds to look up the current bypass when you started, right?
It's even easier than that if you just don't use Microsoft Office. Open source office suites work fine on Windows.
Of course, Linux is the easiest way.
until the age verification brick hits you in the head
Question. Does it even matter, because a LOT of people (majority of humans, even babies) have their name and picture all over the internet that the AI has scraped and knows everything about you. Why would an age verify even matter? If you buy anything with credit card they have you got already.
I'm all for privacy but let's be honest, unless you lived under a rock for the last 25 years, they know who and where you are and everything you like and dont.
That being said, the hard one for me will be when fb pushes it because I love marketplace, and also every one of my friends and family only use fb. If I quit it I'll basically have no one.
One day I will swap to Linux!! One day!!!
I thought about it for years. Then I did the switch and wished I'd done it years earlier.
Then I thought about switching from Ubuntu to something else for years. Then I switched to Debian and wished I'd had done that from the beginning.
I suck with computers, I have no idea what I'm doing 90% of the time, plus I'm dumb as hell in general but I still managed to do the swap with zero issues. Its easier and more straightforward than what people say. Just do it.
Do it! It’s easy; Linux mint is soooooo easy
I’m a computer dumbass and I managed to install Mint by plugging in a USB and clicking “next” until I had a new OS installed. Maybe something else would be marginally more suited to me, but Mint does everything I want: games, internet, and office software are all I need.
Today i had a segfault that basically froze my entire machine. I was just running some downloads and browsing and all of a sudden i couldn't open, minimize, raise, or close anything.
Thanks for letting us know
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