Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account
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What games keep you on Windows? Besides a few anticheat-enabled ones which choose not to support it, basically everything works fine. I game (and work in gamedev!) 100% on Linux.
My vr driving Sim rig just works in windows, the most I've ever had to do is map my shifter in game. Steamvr, hardware drivers, the actual games, it all just works without doing anything. Plug and play. I'm sure I can get it all working in Linux, eventually. I was(trying to) gaming on Ubuntu 10.04 with wine. I was first batch steamdeck and the amount of progress with gaming I've seen thanks to valve and proton means I'll be coming back. But I'm just waiting for steamOS to be open release. But I am a KDE head so honestly I'll end up whatever distro that does proton and KDE by the end of this year.
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this does not work for Windows HOME edition
Yes it does, a client needed this documentation and I've tested it extensively. The only exception is when S-Mode is enabled.
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I just deleted my old Mocrosoft account. Forgot I had it until recently.
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I'm so glad I finally ditched that shit for good
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All I know is i been doing this for 6 months upgrading companies from win 10 to 11. I am sure you're not doing something wrong.
Upgrades are a different process than a brand new install. Going from 10 to 11 on a Pro is an easy process. Long, as in a couple hours, but easy. The post is talking about brand new installs (the OOTB experience).
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Yeah I agree. I just don't wanna see more apps made exclusively for SteamOS and winderp. So I feel it's important to highlight it's just another Linux distro.
https://youtu.be/5KYQRk_SIB8 this is what pulled my attention to the matter.
That's very fair! I was concerned by that video too, though I would point out that if I remember right, the games in that video don't work on non-steamdeck devices including if you install steamos on a laptop or desktop
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Why the fuck is a Microsoft account so important to Windows that running it without one is considered a "loophole"?
because microsoft is shifting focus from selling you a product, to selling you as a product
And they need a unique account to track every single click and thing you do on your PC, and the web, and everywhere else to facilitate doing that with greater control and ease.
Its literally what, and for the same reason, google has done for the past decade+
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"Sucking off Bill Gates is bad, but Linux doesn't support video games"
Bill Gates doesn't run Microsoft anymore. He's not the CEO and largely not responsible for the change in their business model.
Also, I game on Linux more than I do on windows (though I do have a partition in my drive to run windows for games I couldn't get working on steam OS/ Bazzite. It's literally 4 games out of over 100.
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Every time I hear about Microsoft it makes me wanna take a shit
Pavlov Reaction?
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Let's install Windows 10 for protest
Or linux.
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Why the fuck is a Microsoft account so important to Windows that running it without one is considered a "loophole"?
Because we need your data silly
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That's very fair! I was concerned by that video too, though I would point out that if I remember right, the games in that video don't work on non-steamdeck devices including if you install steamos on a laptop or desktop
From my understanding of this video. That's because they intentionally locked the game to work on the steam deck.
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Uh
Who's ready to talk Linux
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Uh
Who's ready to talk Linux
I'm liking Linux Mint and Kubuntu personally.
Especially Kubuntu for my main desktop PC, Linux Mint for my little clunker PC I use to run my 3D printers.
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My vr driving Sim rig just works in windows, the most I've ever had to do is map my shifter in game. Steamvr, hardware drivers, the actual games, it all just works without doing anything. Plug and play. I'm sure I can get it all working in Linux, eventually. I was(trying to) gaming on Ubuntu 10.04 with wine. I was first batch steamdeck and the amount of progress with gaming I've seen thanks to valve and proton means I'll be coming back. But I'm just waiting for steamOS to be open release. But I am a KDE head so honestly I'll end up whatever distro that does proton and KDE by the end of this year.
Come on in, the water is fine. The latest version of Ubuntu is like 24, so things have changed a lot, and for the better.
Get yourself a Kubuntu image, and give it a try.
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This forced account shit is infuriating. I’d see students with computers that cannot get to government-provided education sites because they are forced to sign up with a Microsoft account to use their PC, which forced them to setup a child account because of their age and therefore be under a parent account, which means the child account can only use Edge and can only go to whitelisted websites, which blocks some government education sites unless the parent account allows it through which they can’t until the student goes home.
Aren't the students provided computers?
Here students usually get provided computers and then MS accounts are no problem since they just have to logon with their domain account.
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Uh
Who's ready to talk Linux
Sadly, steam VR and fusion360 are still tying me to windows.
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Sadly, steam VR and fusion360 are still tying me to windows.
Steam VR runs on Linux natively, doesn't it? I switched to Linux a few weeks ago but haven't tried VR gaming on it yet.
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Sadly, steam VR and fusion360 are still tying me to windows.
No they don't. Steam VR is native on Linux, and most of fusion 360 can run in wine. Good news for you!
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Steam VR runs on Linux natively, doesn't it? I switched to Linux a few weeks ago but haven't tried VR gaming on it yet.
It does, but performance seems a lot laggier than Windows.
I've been using Linux full time for a while now, and only recently installed Windows on a secondary drive, just for those two things.
Before, on Linux, it was a bit of mixed bag.
Sometimes it would start up without issue, other times sound wouldn't work, etc.Using corectl is a must, and make sure you have a stable steam install. (iirc the steam I installed didn't come with half of the 32 bit libs it was expecting).
I'm rocking a 7900xtx, so it's not exactly low-end, and half-life alyx was giving me a lot of stutters.
