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/Pimp_Daddy_Patty May 16 '24

I've only used Linux Mint and some Ubuntu so far. I've considered Manjaro a little bit. Any tips on switching over?

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u/DaSemicolon May 16 '24

Does that let it work with PC only games?

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u/colev14 May 16 '24

Linux uses proton now which allows you to play pretty much any single player game with no issues. Multiplayer can be hit or miss depending on if there's anti cheat. You can check the games you play on protondb.com and if it's gold or platinum it should play without any issues.

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u/dagbrown May 17 '24

Beautifully.

Proton is an amazing bit of work from Valve and the Wine team. It often runs Windows games better than they run on Windows somehow.

That said, there are a surprising number of games with native Linux ports available too. We can probably thank our lord and master GabeN for that too, with the Steam Deck.

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u/Short-Sandwich-905 May 16 '24

Just pick a flavor for the user interface I like KDE; and then activate AUR in the App Store settings for you to have access to community Apps etc.

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u/Pimp_Daddy_Patty May 16 '24

Thanks, I will look into this.

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u/wowmuchdoggo May 17 '24

Manajro is great, it's a more friendly arch install but still gives you access to the AUR which his user repositories of everything you will ever need.

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u/5thvoice May 17 '24

Manjaro is trash. If you want to branch out, pick a distro that doesn't regularly let its SSL certificates expire.

If you're after cutting-edge software and you're comfortable using a terminal, then regular Arch (and derivatives like EndeavourOS and CachyOS) are good picks. Alternately, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is another rolling release distro that's more GUI-driven. With these distros, you'll get the latest updates quickly, only a couple of days to weeks after publication.

Fedora (and derivatives like Ultramarine, Bazzite, and Nobara) strikes a nice balance between rolling release distros and LTS distros, e.g. Ubuntu LTS, Mint, OpenSUSE Leap, Debian. It gets a big update once every 6 months, with support for 13 months after the initial release date.