The one war I hope both sides get annihilated in.

A) https://www.notebookcheck.net/Removing-Windows-Recall-breaks-File-Explorer-in-latest-24H2-update.899991.0.html

B) No, you're replying.

B2) First of all, you're requiring out of box. Even windows has hibernation disabled by default, so it doesn't come out of box like you want. Second of all, while yes, hibernation requires a little more extra work because it requires signing your keys with secure boot and therefore Microsoft itself (which any linux user is hesitant to do), it does work with a bit of extra work, and there are guides. It is not a big deal.

I neither use TPM due to the potential backdoors, nor secure boot because it serves no purpose other than to try to lock in users to Windows, and preventing piracy (besides, BlackLotus bypasses secure boot, so it is rendered completely useless). And on linux you are allowed to disable these. Secure boot in itself is legally in a gray area because it forces you to sign with Microsoft even when you don't use Windows or any Microsoft products.

C) Me: windows is shit because it overrides my preferred settings in favor of Microsoft products. You: No it doesn't. Me: yes it does. Here try this right now. You: That doesn't count because you're on windows using a Microsoft product. Me: the entire OS is a Microsoft product, so technically they could ignore your preferences at anytime, but that only proves my point harder. You: pardon?

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A) copilot and recall are embedded into windows explorer and many other features of windows regardless of whether you have it enabled or not. If you uninstall copilot+, windows explorer stops working.

B) it has to do with Windows if they collect information that they're not legally required to collect. Most linux distributions don't collect it, so that makes them superior in that case.

B2) it has been available in Ubuntu core for over 2 years now, and in arch for even longer than that.

B3) If you have to break a system in order to circumvent (temporarily) something that is being forced upon you, that only proves my point that the system is shit.

C) oh so now suddenly it is OK to have Microsoft products shoved down your throat because after all, windows itself is a Microsoft product.

A) Windows Recall and Copilot. Recall will screenshot your environment every second. Copilot is an LLM which has access to virtually everything on your system. LLMs are also notoriously easy to fool into giving away information it was specifically instructed not to, and perform actions it was instructed never to do.

B) The us government has no business collecting information about non-us citizens, but even for people living in the US, imagine having an abortion, and living in a state where abortion is illegal. In that case you wouldn't want the US government to come sniffing either. But more importantly, privacy does not need to be justified.

With Windows, I have access to Secure Boot and TPM-backed full drive encryption (including hibernation support) out of the box. Can you do that with Linux?

Yes.

Also, you know as well as everyone else here that the MSA requirement is easy to bypass.

You know very well that if someone has to crack your OS to get it the way they want, that is not a quality.

C) Again, provide specifics. I don't default any of my apps to Microsoft's and this just doesn't happen.

Press the windows key, write "how to open windows menu searches with firefox" press enter and let your favorite browser Edge look that up for you. A nice page will explain to you that windows doesn't let you use your default browser from the windows menu and that you'll have to install a script called "ChrEdgeFkOff" to circumvent it.

When every other topic by windows users on lemmy is "windows sucks so much. Now they did X and Y, and everything is shit" linux users are going to reply with "use Linux".

It's like hearing incels complain about never losing their virginity. The brothel is right around the corner, just get it over with.

Just guessing, but maybe a 6.4 / 10 customer score. More copies sold than Concord, but not enough to go net positive. It looks polished so I doubt it'll be overwhelmingly negative, but it just won't be that interesting to gamers so most will probably just not buy it.

It'll probably be review bombed in both directions.

A lot people are liking it because the people who didn't during the early preview didn't receive their early access copies.

Security updates means patches against exploits like spectre/meltdown, not antivirus updates. You'll still be getting antivirus updates on windows 10.

Which means that until such an exploit has been discovered, windows 10 would be safer than windows 11 since windows 10 does have a countermeasure against spectre/meltdown while windows 11 doesn't. Windows 11 literally does not provide security updates to unsupported computers, and the exploits are already known.

Don't use proprietary software for something so simple as mouse and keyboard macros and variable DPI. Use Piper or something.

"Help me stepbrotherboard, my circuits are stuck under the chassi."

To be fair, those old games have been rewritten in newer engines in order to support ray tracing, and at that point you could apply other modern global illumination methods and get almost the same effect with less performance cost.

The thing that makes raytracing so attractive, though, is how extremely easy ray tracing is to implement. Unless I'm copy-pasting others' finished work, I can make raytracing work over the weekend with Vulkan or DirectX shaders as opposed to having to implement 10-15 other shaders for the same effect over half a year of development.

You usually don't need proprietary software and drivers on Linux because of the great general purpose open source alternatives. Even on Windows, a ton of the drivers are actually useless and only bloat your system or perform invasive telemetry.

Personally I don't even use the RGB features on my gaming PC, but OpenRGB is open source and lightweight. I would probably use it over proprietary RGB profiles even on Windows. You should give it a try.

GPU fan control is already available by default in most Linux distributions and should require no additional drivers.

AMD always have Linux drivers. The Linux adrenaline driver is here: https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/linux-drivers.html

SSD/NVME firmware updates should also already be supported by default in linux. With for example fwupdmgr.

High refresh rate displays should also work out the box on the modern distributions. On Linux Mint and Ubuntu they have a GUI for it, but changing resolution and refresh rate with Xrandr also only takes one or two terminal commands. There likely is software to do it, but if anything I could write you a script that does it if your distribution doesn't already have GUI for it. I had to write a script to adjust some of my monitors' drawing area because I mirror, but my displays don't have the same aspect ratio.