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I know that coding time is much more expensive than I can afford, but if I had the money I would clean up and fully-feature their macro system.
They are seriously making the case for Linux with everything they do
Now that GeForce Now can play most anti-cheat on cloud gaming I see no reason ever to have a Windows machine. Mint btw.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the anti-cheat stuff generally for competitive games? If that’s the case, GeForce Now would make it too laggy to play comfortably, no?
I mean I have 5 crown wins in 2 weeks. I don’t think it’s too laggy. I have to drop my settings and play at 360 rather than unlimited. But it doesn’t bother me much.
Cool, thanks!
Not viable for competitive games or (for me personally) any games at all. Too much input lag and often too blurry graphics.
I have not experienced this on a level that kills the vibe for me. But I’m an enthusiast and not a professional.
GFN works on Linux?
Yup. The cloud gaming version.
Windows 10 had already done a great job of that, but Windows 11 has really amped it up. I only have a single Windows machine in the house at this point for specific corporate stuff I need for work.
I swear, Microsoft YEARNS to fail. Dunno who is running the show over there but they’re doing a great job of being terrible for their brand.
they’re losing so much money on AI/datacenters, they are just flailing at this point.
Meanwhile MSFT (the stock) goes up up up
Yes but thats lifted by bubbles.
Nice metaphor, I wish few would pop without hurting too badly the idiots that believe the lies and more importantly without hurting anyone who pointed out how ridiculous it all was. Unfortunately I’m rather convinced people at the helm of Microsoft, OpenAI, VC pumping the bumbles, are financially smart enough to be entirely disconnected from any consequence of their own actions.
They don’t need to be smart. They have money. The system is for them. Shocks will be absorbed by parts of society that exist to be stepped on, who need to be disciplined and stay under pressure to function without risk of unionization/revolt.
The only thing that trickles down are costs.
Well, piss too. Costs and piss.
You might want to check their financial reports buddy lol. Actually I know you won’t want to, because they’ll make you upset. You literally could not be more wrong if you tried.
Advertising has no place in an operating system. Full stop.
Advertising has no place period.
One of the single greatest tragedies of modern life is that we accepted ads invading our personal and public spaces. Going outside for a walk and having to see a large outdoor, literally an advert on the sky, should be a crime against humanity.
I moved somewhere where signs over a certain height (maybe 8 feet?) are illegal.
It’s glorious
If this comment turns out to be a stealthy advertisement by the tourism office of wherever you live, I swear to god…
Hear, hear. If you occupy a public space, you have to behave in a manner that everyone can accept. I, for one, do not want to go to a beach to watch a sunset and have a boat with a cartoonishly large LCD display line up on the horizon flashing advertisements.
Especially one you have to PAY for
Just an fyi - Windows 11 is free for all that most users need. You don’t need to activate Windows to use it unless you want to use a few of the more advanced features. It never locks you out or anything, you just can’t change your desktop wallpaper.
I’m aware, but while it works with some features limited, it’s still Microsoft’s intention for you to purchase a license.
I honestly don’t think they care, otherwise they’d do what they used to which is make it not work without a license.
The money isn’t in personal Windows licenses, it’s in people using their services and corporate. The more people using Windows the better for them, even if it’s free.
Windows disagrees.
Laughs in libreoffice.
I swear, if Microoft pulls a few more of these no-good shenanigans, I might start pondering on considering the possibility of perhąps trying out Linux
Try out librewolf or softmaker (there is somewhere a free version) and other alternatives of programs that you need that at best are foss and at worst also run on linux.
That way you get a smoother learning curveWith Linux Mint it’s so incredibly easy. Believe me.
Before migrating my desktop over (to arch btw) exactly a year ago I did a trial by fire during our end-of-summer get-away and installed Mint on a spare laptop with the aim of working one day remotely and also finishing a group project during a summer course which I had to do leading my team on teams (because lol universities).
The only thing that it failed on was getting the laptop’s built in speaker audio working, which I’ve heard can happen with certain models. I just used a headset instead.
Oddly enough, I have three other similar laptops, running OpenSUSE and Fedora on them, and the audio works on them flawlessly.You should try a live USB and/or a spare laptop to trial whatever distro people recommend. Distro hopping is child’s play, once you figure out how to disable secure boot.
Eh, I can’t really leave Windows
They sent me a survey. I told them they’re driving me to Linux and libre office.
What they heard was:
“I’m not considering giving any money to your competitors.”
So they were probably happy.
“Microsoft testing new ways to lose customers”.
It’s well known that piracy was what made Word (.DOC) and Excel (.XLS) the de facto standard.
If the kids at home can’t use windows, they’ll find something different. And when enough of them find if, when they become decision makers they’ll stay away from Windows.
Imagine how different the landscape would be had MS cracked down on Piracy for their flagship programs.
iMacs in schools weren’t for nothing, and neither are the weirdly good deals on Apple products for students and teachers. At a time when people are learning about these programs and using the machines pretty aggressively the good product company comes along and gives them affordable-ish equipment with a nice stable OS.
Tim Cook Apple being kinda underwhelming and being way more expensive than Steve Jobs Apple is not helping their image but they still have decent deals and are able to ride said image for a very long time thanks largely to Jobs understanding what you’re talking about.
Back to Microsoft, they don’t seem to understand that the general consensus on them has mostly always been that Windows is cheap and not amazing but certain programs run on only it. Now they want to make it cost a tonne of money/have ads? Jobs’ Apple products where expensive but they were high quality. Microsoft just can’t pull the same shit with their dogshit legacy-coded 30 year old hack-job OS and consistently mediocre-to-bad products. And they have to do it while competing with Linux amongst the very people who were doing most of the loud fan-boying for their shit for so long!
If the kids at home can’t use windows
Wait why can’t they use windows?
Let me repeat, a big part of the success of windows is due to piracy. In developing countries, poor people rely on it. Eventually they may become educated and well, they know how to use windows.
If windows/office becomes annoying with the ads then people will look for alternatives.
This is just fantasy lol. Windows wasn’t successful because of piracy lol. It played no part in it.
This will drive more people to Linux. The forced migration to Win11 is already doing wonders with Linux adoption.
Are there any actual statistics showing this ongoing migration, or are we just assuming?
It is up to aproximately 4% on desktops worldwide. source
Consumer or business? I can see businesses but I have yet to run into a consumer, who isn’t an enthusiast, who is even aware of Linux.
Speculation on the data seems to imply that Windows is losing users to Android/iOS; thus an apparent rise in Linux. There is no way to tell how much of the drive is what I just said or the Windows -> Linux.
Of course they are. Coincidentally, newer devices being bought in 2025 are increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.
I thought that was illegal.
Do you happen to know any specific hardware that does so? I haven’t heard of that and I’m genuinely curious.
Maybe Windows ARM devices?
You can run Linux on those, except for the surface pro X which never got support
I have never seen this nor can I find any examples of this online. Any examples?
increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.
This is false information.
I tried to do a dual boot on my bf’s new laptop, he was li-curious, it ended up being such a hassle he just switched entirely. He prefers the Mac like interface on Wayland.
Wayland isn’t the desktop environment (window compositor). That’s probably Gnome, as it’s very mac like.
Will they run in WINE?
Tricky. Microsoft currently use two different executable formats and only one of them is compatible with WINE. That still doesn’t mean that a compatible one will work properly though.
On the other hand, people who make ads want their ads to be literally everywhere, so they might make it Windows 3.11 compatible with all library functions baked in just to be safe. WINE would almost certainly run that.
dont think so
Subscriptions? Who pays a subscription for Windows?
For Microsoft 365 / Office 365.
Massgrave PS script solves this. Yes for 365 too. Some ISPs block it so have to use a VPN to run it.
This shit is making me more & more glad I switched back to Linux. I’m even thinking of actually learning to code to continue its support. These businesses are just fully mask off at this point.
The sole reason for me owning a windows pc is that I use vMix which requires it as well a a nvidia graphics card. What I did is clean bloatware with Win11Debloat. Up to now nobody has been able to tell me how to effectively run vMix on Linux.
The answer to this is usually to use an alternative. Reading the description and searching around a bit, isn’t this essentially what OBS Studio does?
Essentially yes. I am very experienced with OBS Studio and now I am adding vMix to my portfolio because it’s capable things OBS cannot do. vMix is programmed to do the videoprocessing directly on the GPU while the CPU is only handling audio and the UI. Unfortunately this works only on Windows systems.
Pretty sure the suggested usage of OBS is to use your GPU for hardware encoding video so not sure what the difference you’re describing is.
I have a windows game box, it nags me to backup my photos when I visualise 1 (one) image.
What a shit OS it has become lol.
