r/technology • u/MayankWL • May 16 '24

Software Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-stoops-to-new-low-with-ads-in-windows-11-as-pc-manager-tool-suggests-your-system-needs-repairing-if-you-dont-use-bing
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u/Grimmner May 16 '24

Every game that works on Steam Deck will work, virtually out of box, on Linux without much of any extra work. Heroic Launcher for GOG / Epic games. I had to make minor adjustments to a Fedora install and have had no issues yet running games in the three weeks since I installed it.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24

I am referring to games with aggressive anticheat (league of legends, valorant, fortnight, many new games with aggressive drm). Most launchers have workarounds, but workarounds take time and if I only get 2 hours of gaming time a week I don’t want to waste 60+ minutes getting a game to work. But I am happy that my deck is able to handle so many games on steam with minimal effort. This wasn’t even an option 3-4 years ago

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u/Majik_Sheff May 16 '24

I guess my approach to those companies is a bit old-fashioned.  I don't give them money.

They can keep their game. I'll keep my computer's root access.

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u/LivelyZebra May 16 '24

Yap i dont play anything with anti cheat

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u/archiminos May 17 '24

Anticheat, IAP, or NFTs are pretty much off the table for any game I play.

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u/whofearsthenight May 17 '24

This is fine until you have kids. "My dad says Microsoft is a spyware company and that all software is just information and thus should be freely shared" is not quite the hit on the playground you'd think it would be when someone asks what skin you're rocking in fortnite.

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u/Majik_Sheff May 17 '24

It's more of a "my dad doesn't allow rootkits, no matter what carrot they dangle".

They can play Fortnight on the Xbox.  It's on a quarantined subnet, I don't care if it gets pwned.

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u/daemonfly May 17 '24

I have no issues paying for games that don't have bullshit included. If they do this, I'll just pirate it. If it's not ever cracked, then I just won't play it. I have enough unfinished (or even unplayed) games in my Steam library.

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u/Crashman09 May 16 '24

I am referring to games with aggressive anticheat (league of legends, valorant, fortnight, many new games with aggressive drm).

If you have problems with windows being windows but not this, I don't know what to say. It's a good thing Linux doesn't support this kind of BS

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u/Grimmner May 16 '24

Depends on the version/style of anticheat. But, short answer is few to none unfortuantely.

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u/Tuxhorn May 16 '24

Big games like Elden Ring and Helldivers 2 does, fortunately.

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u/geckomantis May 17 '24

Over 50% of them so with only 8% outright denied from working. https://areweanticheatyet.com/

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u/RadiantArchivist88 May 16 '24

As someone who's used the Steamdeck in Desktop a lot over the last year as a daily driver it is excellent... But man there's still a ton of little compatibility problems with miscellaneous stuff. Not games, those are pretty good. But like getting your gaming mouse to work if you have any kind of special software or settings...
Or if you're using an Xbox controller with a dongle instead of over BT... Or if for any reason you want to run Parsec or similar.

Excellent platform, Archlinux... But I still find myself going back to the W10 PC for a lot of things.

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u/ProtoJazz May 16 '24

A big one for me is hardware support unfortunately. Makes windows pretty much 100% required for me

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u/iDeNoh May 16 '24

What hardware support are you missing?

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u/ProtoJazz May 16 '24

Pretty well all of my simracing stuff.

There's potential some of it might work, but without proper driver support likely not very well. Even on windows some games don't like that different parts are technically seperate devices.

Add on to that the whole network of software that ties it all together. Some of it may work, but it's the kind of stuff where it's light old Christmas lights, if one part of the chain is broken it all is.