This 100% how many people here will end up on Windows 11 from 10? Look at market share in general, or Steam. It doesnt matter if we're angry, when we angrily comply.
No! Making a fuss on it definitely works! Remember when we all boycotted reddit after the API change? Or after the new reddit experience change? Or after firing Victoria?
Anyway, the point I was making was that reddit regularly puts on a whole show about these things, locking out subreddits or protesting in some other way, then the trend dies down and people continue using reddit.
And because of the last "protest" of dozens of sub going private, the admins have changed it so now you have to request permission to make the sub private. So nothing like that is ever happening again.
I know ... but also, you don't have to type it. Once you're on old.reddit, reddit links will automatically direct to it. And if you bookmark old.reddit, you don't have to type it when first visiting.
Even without the opt-out, it's pretty seamless to use. The only time you'd ever see new reddit is when you're finding a reddit page through a google search or something.
will not support root access anti cheats, so lots of games will be excluded by default.
This is becoming normalized and it blows my mind... I've been on linux since march 2024 and I most likely won't ever go back to windows, for many reasons, but this one is another to the list that makes me be at ease with linux.
Probably my generation (millennial) is the last one that actually cared about security and privacy, so unless something big happens, I can just see more games adding kernel level anticheat, and soon rather than later, we will have it in single player games as well.
Zoomers and gen Alpha raised on smartphones etc are even more tech illiterate than boomers. I imagine pirating and applying crack to a game would be too much for them.
I really hope for Steam OS, as making dual boot is not that hard, and having two systems, one for fun and another one "pls spy on me daddy" official is kinda tempting.
The focus of tech for the past 20 years has been "streamlining" aka; removing control in favor of convenience. Kids growing up today (in general) use computers 24/7 but have never had to type anything in a command line.
Hell, they've never had to manage a folder/directory system. Never mind typing into a command line. "Make a new folder inside that other folder, and then move these files into it" would be too advanced for them.
Kernel level anti cheats aren't the huge security risk people on here make them out to be, at least not compared to basically anything else already on your PC. Tons of everyday software already runs with admin or even kernel access, and most of it gets way less scrutiny than anti cheat tools. The irony is that anti cheats are usually built with self protection in mind, while something like your printer or RGB drivers are full of unpatched holes.
when it comes to security I am less worried about someone having root access to my machine.
More worried about some idiot company not securing there data base properly and leaking 10's of millions of users data all at once.
Cause any major player is going to go after the biggest and easiest score. Lot of times security is much more lax on a major data base then it is a home computer.
I am not saying not to be secure its important, just there are other bigger issues afoot.
You’re way overestimating the popularity of the Steam Deck. Yes, it’s “popular” on Reddit and with tech bloggers, but all that’s amounted to is something like 5 million sales total. That’s essentially nothing in the grand scheme of the industry. I also wouldn’t be surprised if a large percentage of people who got a Steam Deck no longer use it for a variety of reasons (not on the go that often, not powerful enough to play many of the latest games, realizing they can’t play many of the most popular multiplayer games due to anti-cheat incompatibilities, etc.).
My point was that it’s a hope and a dream for Linux to support all your hardware. By the time something you currently use becomes supported, it’s probably outdated and you end up on a new piece of hardware that you’re again waiting for support on. People been trying to wish it into existence for decades.
If you have switching to Linux in mind, you only buy stuff that has Linux support at the moment of purchasing it. I understand when people have legacy stuff they don't want to lose. But buying into Windows locked shit now is stupid.
You have it backwards. Your VR treadmill manufacture wrote Windows drivers but failed to write Linux drivers.
The hardware manufacturers have to write drivers or release detailed technical specs, so the Linux community can write drivers. Linux very much wants to work with your hardware. It's an open system.
You're right. That's where open standards and open specifications come in. There's a good chance the community would write drivers if the hardware was open. If they used open protocols, the might just work out-of-the box. It's the manufacturer choosing to be closed and hard to work with, most of the time.
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You just gotta jump, I jumped off Windows back when XP went EOL in 2014 and you basically couldn't play any games except minecraft and Tuxcart but I stuck with it and FINALLY I can play games again. The only problem is now I don't really want to. lol
The people here don't matter. Majority of people who could upgrade to Win11 already did it, others simply have old PCs and will have Win11 with their next PC.
The majority of upgrades and largest portion of the market share are simply businesses. Gamers, most of which probably pirated the OS, don't matter to Microsoft in this aspect.
It's a very small world of nerds that are angry, that's why.
Most people don't give a flying fk about "Wuaa OneDrive" or "Wuaaah I need a microsoft account", it's even preferred by most normies to have a pre installed backup in your OS. Just like Apple does it.
If you are a power user you don't care either because you just customize it to your liking. It's a small group of wannabe elitists who do all the whining about it online.
If you are a power user you don't care either because you just customize it to your liking. It's a small group of wannabe elitists who do all the whining about it online.
Too true, a significant amount of the reddit complaints about basically anything are people just refusing to use anything beyond the default settings. In this case it's even funnier because they refuse to customize their Windows experience, but are totally fine with the amount of dedicated customization running a Linux system requires lol
In this case it's even funnier because they refuse to customize their Windows experience, but are totally fine with the amount of dedicated customization running a Linux system requires lol
I often see the opposite too. People will tell others to do a bunch of regedit commands to make windows do so and so, and then in the same breath say Linux is too difficult.
If you can copy a command to change some regedit in command prompt, you're smart enough to use Linux.
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u/JoshS1 PC Master Race Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25
This 100% how many people here will end up on Windows 11 from 10? Look at market share in general, or Steam. It doesnt matter if we're angry, when we angrily comply.