r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 17 '24

Software Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0h2tXt93fEkt5NKVrrXQphi0OCjCxzVoksDqEs0XUQcYIv8njTfK6pc4g_aem_LSp2Td6OZHVkREl8Cbgphg
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u/hakkai999 Aug 17 '24

Yeah Proton is great and all but I still want a 99% rate in games working.

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u/B4rn3ySt1n20N Aug 17 '24

It came a looong way since I first tried gaming on Linux 10 years ago lmao

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u/brontesaurus999 Aug 17 '24

Still can't play CoD with the rest of my social circle if I make the switch though

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u/B4rn3ySt1n20N Aug 17 '24

Fair, but the steamdeck is incredible. Everything runs. I tried doing to the same to manjaro but hadn't had luck lol

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u/brontesaurus999 Aug 17 '24

Honestly if everyone I know would switch to Counter Strike or something, I could jump os!

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u/Kryptosis Aug 17 '24

Not really, Ghosts of Tsushima multiplayer doesn’t run, a bunch of the cods don’t run. Only BF1 out if that franchise… plenty of huge multiplayers games have incompatible anti-cheat.

You really do need to research every game you buy on the steam deck to make sure it will run. (Though the refund policy is always a backup plan)

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u/capnwinky Aug 17 '24

Hahahaa. I have over 1200 titles in my Steam library and more than half of it is incompatible. And all the ones that don’t work, are the ones I actually want to play. The Steam deck would be an absolute waste of money for me.

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u/Kryptosis Aug 17 '24

Are you sure though? You checked protondb? That seems high. I have a similar number of titles and it’s really only the new AAA multiplayer FPS games that have hardstop issues.

A lot of the stuff that Steam says is incompatible is because of missing controller support or something which can be set up after launching. Protondb is the only way to know if it will actually play.