I finally had enough of Win11 and downgraded to 10. What a difference! I can actually reliably change my audio outputs again with 2 clicks! I can get to old school settings panels with less hassle and digging too.
I know this comes off as a kidnapping victim saying “My old kidnapper let me use the shower”, but until all my games run well in Linux, I’m stuck here.
Which games do you play? In my experience the only ones that haven’t worked are ones with a hefty (kernel-level) anti cheat or similar. Proton is surprisingly good at emulating windows games!
Most games I play work on Proton. It’s Destiny 2 that will get your account banned if you use Linux. I’ve invested too much time at this point to risk a ban, so I’ll need to wait until I finish the last DLC before I switch. I’ve run Suse and Redhat in the past, but the last time I attempted to game on Linux was Team Fortress 2. Based on my experience with SteamDeck, it wouldn’t be hard to get most games up and running.
I would do the same, but then I’d have to go back to Win10’s laughably awful implementation of HDR support, and I can’t have that. So instead I downloaded SoundSwitch to fix your first issue, and installed StartAllBack to fix the second (you could also simply pin the Control Panel to the Start menu).
I’m already aware of this (how could I not be? The story was on the front page for days) and I’m not worried about it. This isn’t the first time Microsoft has blocked alternative taskbars; somebody always finds a workaround.
I dual boot Arch but mostly use Win11, cause KDE’s implementation of HDR is even more fiddly and tedious. In 11, all I gotta do is enable the setting to use HDR, and it just works. I don’t even have to calibrate my display cause my monitor has a setting to automatically process HDR content for me. All I gotta do is leave in-game calibrations at their default setting, and the monitor does the rest. Literally couldn’t be easier. Win11 can even automatically convert SDR games to HDR (called “AutoHDR”), and my nVidia GPU can do the same for videos (streaming or local, unfortunately I can’t find the setting in the Linux Nvidia drivers). And it just works effortlessly.
So yeah, that’s why I still use Windows11. No other OS makes HDR so easy. (But TBF the monitor helps a lot too; LG C1, BTW.)
Everything runs fine on Linux, just follow the ten pages of commands and technical procedures to get them working and installed with your particular hardware.
…I like tinkering, but I don’t like tinkering with stuff that should already just work by now. Linux should already just work by now, I keeping waiting to switch to it, I keep finding out nothing has changed, and you still need to know a bunch of archaic command line stuff just to get the basics working.
Only really exception is the ones that force the installation of a rootkit (kernel-level anti-cheat) in order to play, which I wouldn’t play on Windows either because I don’t want a rootkit from a random dev on my machine.
Huh? You specifically replied to someone talking about Linux not playing all their games:
but until all my games run well in Linux, I’m stuck here.
You then continued this talking point:
Everything runs fine on Linux, just follow the ten pages of commands and technical procedures to get them working and installed with your particular hardware.
So yeah. I thought that because that’s exactly what you were doing. What’s confusing you here?
Yah, but apparently that person is wrong according to everyone here, and I’m wrong for agreeing with them more broadly (I sarcastically said “everything runs just fine” not “all games”).
So in light of this new information (being told what I was talking about), I’m changing my vote.
I don’t use linux because of its users being shitheads. Nagging smug fuck face shitheads, with no social skills, or communications skills, who would prefer to try to pressure you into their cult than just talk like normal people.
Take the L. You entered a discussion where someone was talking about gaming, continued that discussion, then became rude when I was continuing to talk about gaming, now you’re flying into a frenzied rage because you can’t talk like an adult.
Seriously, why can’t Windows users talk like normal people, rather than angry, whiny shitheads? Why do they need to justify their cult behaviour so much? It’s weird.
Wah wah wah someone downvoted you, what a travesty, your poor fee fees 🥺
I finally had enough of Win11 and downgraded to 10. What a difference! I can actually reliably change my audio outputs again with 2 clicks! I can get to old school settings panels with less hassle and digging too.
I know this comes off as a kidnapping victim saying “My old kidnapper let me use the shower”, but until all my games run well in Linux, I’m stuck here.
Which games do you play? In my experience the only ones that haven’t worked are ones with a hefty (kernel-level) anti cheat or similar. Proton is surprisingly good at emulating windows games!
Most games I play work on Proton. It’s Destiny 2 that will get your account banned if you use Linux. I’ve invested too much time at this point to risk a ban, so I’ll need to wait until I finish the last DLC before I switch. I’ve run Suse and Redhat in the past, but the last time I attempted to game on Linux was Team Fortress 2. Based on my experience with SteamDeck, it wouldn’t be hard to get most games up and running.
Total War games are buggy on Linux despite having linux “ports”.
Star Citizen also runs poorly on Linux. They’re meant to support it at some point so maybe in a decade…
ah haha so as someone who stopped at 7, because 8 was too invasive:
your games won’t run there for long, dear. soon, more will run on Linux.
I would do the same, but then I’d have to go back to Win10’s laughably awful implementation of HDR support, and I can’t have that. So instead I downloaded SoundSwitch to fix your first issue, and installed StartAllBack to fix the second (you could also simply pin the Control Panel to the Start menu).
Enjoy it while you can…
I’m already aware of this (how could I not be? The story was on the front page for days) and I’m not worried about it. This isn’t the first time Microsoft has blocked alternative taskbars; somebody always finds a workaround.
that sounds really fiddly and tedious, why moy just use Linux?
I dual boot Arch but mostly use Win11, cause KDE’s implementation of HDR is even more fiddly and tedious. In 11, all I gotta do is enable the setting to use HDR, and it just works. I don’t even have to calibrate my display cause my monitor has a setting to automatically process HDR content for me. All I gotta do is leave in-game calibrations at their default setting, and the monitor does the rest. Literally couldn’t be easier. Win11 can even automatically convert SDR games to HDR (called “AutoHDR”), and my nVidia GPU can do the same for videos (streaming or local, unfortunately I can’t find the setting in the Linux Nvidia drivers). And it just works effortlessly.
So yeah, that’s why I still use Windows11. No other OS makes HDR so easy. (But TBF the monitor helps a lot too; LG C1, BTW.)
Everything runs fine on Linux, just follow the ten pages of commands and technical procedures to get them working and installed with your particular hardware.
…I like tinkering, but I don’t like tinkering with stuff that should already just work by now. Linux should already just work by now, I keeping waiting to switch to it, I keep finding out nothing has changed, and you still need to know a bunch of archaic command line stuff just to get the basics working.
They like it that way.
When did you last use Linux, 2006?
I install steam. I press play. Game runs.
Only really exception is the ones that force the installation of a rootkit (kernel-level anti-cheat) in order to play, which I wouldn’t play on Windows either because I don’t want a rootkit from a random dev on my machine.
Not sure why you’d think I’m just talking about games when I said “everything”.
Huh? You specifically replied to someone talking about Linux not playing all their games:
You then continued this talking point:
So yeah. I thought that because that’s exactly what you were doing. What’s confusing you here?
Yah, but apparently that person is wrong according to everyone here, and I’m wrong for agreeing with them more broadly (I sarcastically said “everything runs just fine” not “all games”).
So in light of this new information (being told what I was talking about), I’m changing my vote.
I don’t use linux because of its users being shitheads. Nagging smug fuck face shitheads, with no social skills, or communications skills, who would prefer to try to pressure you into their cult than just talk like normal people.
Now let’s check in with a more recent thread on the topic.
On no, a desenting opinion, y’all better go downvote them, zealot fucks.
Lmao you’re so angry
Take the L. You entered a discussion where someone was talking about gaming, continued that discussion, then became rude when I was continuing to talk about gaming, now you’re flying into a frenzied rage because you can’t talk like an adult.
Seriously, why can’t Windows users talk like normal people, rather than angry, whiny shitheads? Why do they need to justify their cult behaviour so much? It’s weird.
Wah wah wah someone downvoted you, what a travesty, your poor fee fees 🥺
I just don’t like wankers telling me what I was saying, or who deny all failings of something because it’s their chosen sacred cow.
You were either talking about gaming or went off on a completely different (and entirely inaccurate) tangent.
Then you got really, really upset. It’s not that deep. Just take the L and move along.
mint just works