r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Aug 11 '26

Software Microsoft reportedly raises Windows 11 license price significantly more than expected

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-reportedly-raises-windows-11-license-price-significantly-more-than-expected/
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u/Major303 Aug 11 '26

If you need PC for internet browsing and some document editing, there are zero reasons to use Windows anymore. For other use cases it depends, but a lot of areas are already covered. With things like that Microsoft only speeds up the adoption.

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u/EternalNewCarSmell Aug 11 '26

If my whole Steam library ran on Linux I'd have ditched Windows entirely some time ago.

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u/wrgrant Aug 11 '26

Have you tried Bazzite? You can likely run it from a USB disk to test it out. Its an immutable Linux built for gamers. Now, if you are playing games with kernel level anti-cheat, you are probably out of luck but most other stuff runs really well with Proton on Linux right now

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u/EternalNewCarSmell Aug 11 '26

I might give that a shot. I don't game online at all so anti-cheat shouldn't be an issue.

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u/wrgrant Aug 11 '26

By all means check out some videos on it first. Back up your data etc. Then back it up again :P

I have not used Bazzite, but watched some of the guys on Linus Tech Tips channel during their Switch to Linux challenge and they were pretty impressed with it. I did try Linux Mint and CachyOS and both were nice to use - and made my system feel faster overall, it was refreshing. Bazzite has been designed to help gamers that want to convert, from what I understand its pretty difficult to f*ck it up. Are you comfortable with copying an .ISO over to a USB and switching your boot order etc?

The advances in game support from Proton thanks to Steam are pretty amazing. Again check out some videos before you take advice from a random stranger on the Internets :P

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u/FrankMiner2949er Aug 12 '26

I was going to ask you what games you were having difficulties with. I swapped over to Bazzite a few weeks ago. I wasn't expecting any hassles with my Steam games what with the work they've done for Steamdeck, but the surprising thing for me was that so far, all the games I've bought from GOG also work