Don’t need Windows anymore, thanks to Proton. Bless Lord Gaben.
Wine*
But anticheat still gets in the way
Meh, I’m fine not playing games that require kernel level access to my system to prevent cheating, or games by devs that are able to set the anticheat to allow Linux users to play but just don’t.
Swapped to Linux mint a week ago, and is it just me or does it unzip files like 20x faster
It probably does because Mint uses less CPU than Windows. That’s just speculation on my part though.
Unsurprising, but knowing Microsoft they’ll still fuck it up somehow.
My crystal ball says Gamepass device. Comes with a free subscription for the first 6 months… Hard to see, it might be a free year.
They can hardly avoid screwing up, really.
The whole draw of Steam Deck is that it’s a carefully curated experience where everything from the OS upwards is crafted to play nicely together and “Just Work” to bring that console-like experience to PC gaming.
Whatever Microsoft are putting together isn’t going to have that end-to-end consideration. It will be nothing more than a skinned launcher on top of Windows 11, and no matter how shiny that launcher looks you won’t be able to hide from Windows for long. All the normal Windows bloat will be there, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you spend as much time messing around in actual Windows as you do playing games.
They tried doing something that would have fit with Windows 8 and they ROYALLY screwed that up.
I don’t know how you don’t think about how people that use Windows Server and how they have difficulties reaching the start menu. Seriously, trying to go into the top left or side with your mouse makes no sense. They have so many project managers, QA and process and somehow they screwed up that hard.
“I can’t wait for my PC to load the classic Windows UI elements, the Metro elements AND THIS NEW UI all at the same time regardless of what applications I’m running. It’s not going to put unnecessary strain on the hardware or introduce annoying bugs and instability at all!” -Somebody, probably.
I a calling it now they slap metro from windows 8 on it and call it a day and stills has forced reboots
But I neither want a “like” experience nor windows 11 – pass.
Would you like to open that in the browser? In the app? On the desktop? Would you could you on the desktop?
Can’t wait to play league of legends on joysticks and run it down
