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Is this…is this just an even worse active desktop?
Stone senior VP obviously has his annual performance bonus tied to increasing Edge market share, and is pulling shit like this to artificially inflate the numbers.
Ditto for Bing, Copilot, etc.
Inb4 it runs in the bg putting up every website "agentically"
People are annoyed with this I was already annoyed back in windows xp when I originally switched to Linux.
This post and its entire comment section are hilarious because the vast majority of people browse the internet on their phones, usually through Safari or Chrome.
What I find funny is that some people arrogantly and confidently turn their noses up at Windows users for not using Linux, yet they themselves are still using either an iPhone or an Android device
I honestly might switch to Linux. I know people say that a lot, but gaming has been the only thing keeping me on Windows.
But I've also come to realize I just don't have that much free time to game any more. Most of my computer use is putting YouTube on in the background or web browsing. I still occasionally game, but Linux support keeps improving and even if I only pick Linux supported games... I still won't have enough time to play them all.
Flash a distro onto a usb and boot from that to test drive it and ensure your hardware is compatible - zero risk.
I'll be that guy, use bazzite. Unless your doing advanced shit or VR it's basically everything you need in a simple package. Shit I didn't even have to install drivers for my... well everything.
Only annoying thing I'm finding is my Firefox audio goes wonky sometimes while using the built in audio booster (FF extensions that boost audio were even worse) but rebooting Firefox fixes it.
Zorin OS is a good one if you want a nice UI transition from Windows or Mac.
As long as you don't jump on AAA title games on launch day, you'll be fine gaming on Linux.
That, or if you are a fortnite, LoL addict... Those don't work for reasons totally up to the devs.
I don't consider myself to be an advanced PC user, but even I was able to get Arch Linux to run with some googling and tinkering as my first dive into Linux. I really think you should make the switch if you don't have any work restrictions. I dualboot still, just in case, but I can't remember the last time I needed to use Windows.
Like you and the others say, if you have limited time gaming or don't play AAA on launch day, that's just one more reason not to use Windows! Good luck!
Doesn't "consider [themselves] to be an advanced PC user..."
Picks Arch as their first Linux distro.
Found Linus Sebastian.
Nah, he would have removed his DE.
Lol that loser can't even install popos right
Gaming works great on Linux now and often better. The only scenarios I can think of where things are majorly behind are competitive games with anti cheat that doesn't work on Linux and anything requiring peripherals with custom software, for example SIM racing. This means that the vast majority of games work great!
Sim racing works great for me. Anything from Moza, Logitech, and even my PXN wheel "just worked" out of the box on cachyOS. Bazzite is now getting wheel support. I did have to add USB descriptors for udev rules on my simmsonn pedals, and also learn to always disable steam input and use glorious eggroll proton. JacKeTus did a fantastic job with the ffb driver and I see him on matrix ALL THE TIME helping newbies and getting stuff working.
I switched to Linux a year or two ago. Pretty much every game I've played has worked fine. (Elden ring, guild wars 2, nioh2, pillars of eternity...)
Even non-steam stuff was basically click and go with Heroic launcher
You can test most Linux distros using a “live” image on a thumb drive. If you put Ventoy on a drive, you can try as many ISOs as you can fit on the drive.
Bazzite or Fedora are both really good places to start.
I game often, and 100% on Linux. Unless you're doing competitive multiplayer games with kernel level anti-cheat (read: rootkit malware), games run perfectly fine.
Good news!
Apparently DeNovo’s been hacked!
P.S. I’m shit at games… so I don’t know if this actually really matters 😝
The Denuvo workaround only runs on Windows and creates the mother of all security holes.
Come on in, the water is great!
I just gonna go live in the woods and take up bird watching or something.
Why would my browser Downloader need to start again after I download other browsers?
I want Edge to fuck off.
#linux
If you're stuck on Windows for work or whatever, just disable Edge's executable in Group Policy. Let Microsoft fight Microsoft.
Bro Windows 11 is hot garbage even just for games, my xbox games kept getting corrupted after EVERY update. I don't care about anticheat games anymore its not worth it getting frustrated every single damn update. I will literally play retroarch forever before caring about MICROSLOP again.
No means no, Microsoft.
Why does everything microslop does feel forced?
Because it is. The question is why a good product needs to be forced on users.
Because they’re the Oracle of OSes. They only exist to supply lucrative corporate contracts.
Ooh, does that mean that we're in for a big "actually we're restructuring our licensing all the sudden and everyone owes us 10x, effective as soon as you renew" rug pull? All the cool silicon valley mega corps are doing it!
I said NO, Microsoft.
Stop digitally raping me.
The rapings will continue until profits materialize.
This bullshit again?
SteamOS Desktop can't arrive fast enough. Once it has, I will jump ship to either CachyOS or SteamOS, depending on what reviewers say.
If you're on a PC, SteamOS won't give you anything that any other major distro already offers. Cachy and Bazzite are probably the most similar to SteamOS, but Fedora, Mint, Pop are all also solid choices. There's no reason to wait for Steam to switch to Linux.
SteamOS comes with a mighty corporation to fully fund its development, plus likely being the default for the wider gaming community. If the desktop version is flexible enough to let me do mods, locale, and so on, it would be ideal for my usecase. I hate the idea of distro hopping, because I don't want to spend time and energy figuring out things more than once.
It is my preference to only have one OS for each machine, for its entire lifespan. I would stick to Windows, if it weren't for Microsoft being invasive and commandeering.
You need to do more research. Valve has in total about 300 employees, and maybe a dozen work on SteamOS. Their priority will always be to maintain it for Valve-produced hardware. If you're expecting golden unicorns from SteamOS on a PC, you will be very disappointed.
To make matters somewhat worse it's based on Arch, which is one of the more difficult distros to work with from a user perspective - Valve uses it because it provides more flexibility to aggressively optimize it for their specific hardware. You will not get the experience you are thinking you will get from it.
Fedora on the other hand is based on and funded by Red Hat, which is one of the largest names in enterprise Linux. It's been in production for PCs for over 20 years. On top of funding, Red Hat also has employees working on it.
Red Hat was purchased last year by IBM for $34B USD, roughly 3x what Valve as a whole is estimated to be worth. If you want a so-called "mighty corporation" backing your OS..... valve ain't it.
FWIW it doesn't seem like Valve is really looking to make Steam OS a general-purpose operating system. They are developing it to work on their hardware offerings and may or may not add support to other hardware. This means that they may not work on supporting Nvidia cards well unless they start shipping gabe cubes or decks with Nvidia hardware.
Just because a corporation is backing the OS doesn't mean that they are doing so for anything beyond their own products.
So does bazzite technically. They are based off fedora.
Just jump to something like Bazzite and get rid of windows, don't wait unless you have to
Laughs in Linux...
