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[ggrobot]

if you are installing Windows 11 and are unable to connect to the Internet and used to use the windows OOBE experience to use a Local Account instead of a Microsoft Account, it won't work now, because Microsoft now blocking Limited Accounts bypass.

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[Csimbi]

lol
That teaches you one thing: never use an MS OS again.

[NakedFaerie]

Don't these companies know what they are doing?

Oh, don't install windows as we now suck, go install Linux instead you wont regret it.

[NyaR]

yep, switched to linux a year ago when they started putting gay flags on task bar. don't regret it.

[lorcro2000]

Problem is that anyone who wants to game with almost no hassles is going to be stuck with Windows.

Yes, you can game on Linux. But not all games. Multiplayer games especially are an issue still. Destiny 2 will straight up ban you for trying.

I'm sure there are workarounds for this. Creating a custom installer for instance that's been made as lean as possible by physically deleting components from the installer like Tiny11.

But yeah, the writing's on the wall. Microsoft wants to be able to tie you to their real money maker, cloud shit, as well as be able to spy with 100% personally identifiable information, which is obviously all fully accessible to the US government.

[NyaR]

Its not a hassle at this point. Valve has made great strides with proton. 99% of steam games just need the proton checkbox to be ticked. And Lutris makes installing pirated games a breeze. The only game that I know doesn't work is Lost Ark, and now that you mentioned it, Destiny 2. With the amount of games available it doesn't matter to me if one out of 100 games doesn't work, there are still 99 other games to play.

[NakedFaerie]

Yep. I got a steam deck and I use Heroic to install "3rd party games"
Also Heroic can install Epic, GOG and Amason games as it connects to their stores and accounts.
It also puts pics, icons etc into Steam so it looks great. I do it manually as I like it the way I like but it can still do it for you.

The main games that LInux/SD dont run are mainly the multiplayer online games but they suck anyway so about 99% of good games work fine. I've only met about 5 out of 500 games that dont run. Operation flashpoint for example. That refuses to run on Linux so its not just the SD but I did get to the menu which is further than a lot of people who tried got. Most it wont even boot at all. Had to majorly tweak it to get that far then i gave up and went and played something that worked

Think about this.
Most consoles are based on a version of Linux. PS3/4/5 and Xbox 360/One/Series are all based on FreeBSD I think it is.

I'm still on Windows 7 with ad blockers and lots of registry tweaks and its working great. I dont game on this PC its mainly work stuff... (I'm a gamer so you know what I do with it.
I have hardware that wont work in newer version of windows and software that wont work as the servers are gone. It still works so if I reinstall or upgrade that software gets broken. SO I'm stuck here but I'm happy with no spyware from M$ as thats all been turned off and blocked.

[Csimbi]

I'm surprised our resident Windows 11 fanboï has not reacted yet.

[heretic]

[Csimbi]

Remember O/S Warp and BeOS? They were great!
Whatever the next OS will be, it will need to run Windows-based games and Office to take off.
Linux has done a lot in these areas already (as mentioned above already).
DirectX is being replaced with Vulkan.
In games where Vulkan is not available, you can use DXVK - which wraps DirectX to a much faster and more efficient Vulkan.
Microsoft's monopoly has been melting away for years and they did nothing by screw up their OS even more.
Good riddance.
I am with Windows 10 so far, it became fairly decent over the years - a viable replacement for Windows 7.

[Csimbi]

[Sabot]

Gee whizz, it’s like dropping in on a playground for of whinging girls.

We’ve heard this broken record week week out.

If you fucking hate MS (and all things related to it) why haven’t you binned it?

Instead we get two-faced comments from Csimbi, saying he ‘hates everything MS’ yet loves Win 10 like, get a friggin grip.

Go. Linux is waiting for you. I do not give a shit about MS, but I don’t spend over £1700 building a rig for it to be a liability for my thousands of games.

That’s the difference between me and here; I know which side my bread is buttered on, you lot make all the right sounds and do fuck all about it!

Over 77% of business use windows.

Time to put up or shut the fuck up ffs

[Csimbi]