Yeah, some people get really defensive when you suggest they can get all the things they are asking for, and all they have to do is stop giving money to user-hostile developers. And saying kernel-level anti-cheat is hostile to the user is a massive understatement. Why would you defend Saudi Arabia having kernel-level access to your computer just to play a game? (It’s crazy that that statement isn’t even a joke in the context of EA.)

I understand if someone decides not to take the suggestion, but it is still a reasonable suggestion to make.

and now they are saying they will never upgrade from 10 to 11

The stats show people are committing this time. English speakers are jumping ship at historically unprecedented rates. Steam stats

the old-style devices and printers menu is still in the OS, you just have to dig for it a bit, and it works 1000x better.

For the last 13 years this has been the most infuriating part of the incomplete control panel migration. I find myself struggling to use the new settings, and having to then resort to digging for the old ones that actually have the option I need.

Win 11 finally pushed me over the edge with ads and spying. But I still have to deal with Windows at work.

LibreOffice is good. While people don’t like learning new things, I found it does everything I could want.

I actually switched years ago because I didn’t want to pay for MS Office.

Have you seen any traction with Framework in the corporate space? They are mostly marketed at individuals, but since you specifically mention people wanting higher quality machines, Framework fits the bill.

It was possible to skip Vista and go straight from XP to 7. You could even use the same PC.

It was possible to skip 8 and go straight from 7 to 10. You could even use the same PC.

This time around, Microsoft is forcing Windows 11 as the only option, forcing people to throw away their machines, and it is backfiring on them. People are rejecting it and the competition (Linux) has never been as good as it is today.

The executive also noted that 500 million PCs don’t meet Windows 11’s system requirements

So much unnecessary e-waste. I never want to hear about how ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ Microsoft is again.

The comment was UP TO 40%.

And that comment is incorrect. Unless we are going with Comcast’s ‘up to 1000mbps’ numbers.

Various studies range from 2 to 40%.

No, they don’t range to 40%, and I detailed why. Don’t repeat 40%, it’s demonstrably false.

And what about Linux?

Every distro has supported 64-bit programs for the last decade. Why aren’t you able to run 64-bit programs?

O, god yes.

We had this discussion at my company. And the result was we swapped over in our next major version and told any customer who couldn’t run a 64-bit program to get an OS made in the last decade. (no customer complained)

That is a wild statistic!

It’s a demonstrably inaccurate number. The study was vague enough that yelling at a partner was included, and much more damning they included the officer even if they were the victim in the situation. It literally paints the victims as domestic abusers!

“40% of law enforcement self identify as domestic abusers” is demonstrably false and is not something that should be repeated.

It makes sense to deprecate the 32-bit client. Win 10 32-bit was already pretty rare and any Linux distro has been 64-bit for the last decade.

At no point didn’t anyone ever say that it was “criminally worse” it has the same sentence

The article very explicitly says exactly that. Murdering someone due to their sex is very explicitly treated differently now, depending on the sex of the victim.

If someone murdered a male due to their sex, would you treat that any differently than someone murdering a female due to their sex?

Enabling anticheat means the user must sacrifice many of their core freedoms just to play a video game.

Lots of games support anti-cheat in Linux. It’s critical to note that anti-cheat in general is not the issue.

Kernel-level anti-cheat however is. It’s a massive security issue and something that everyone, including Windows users, should roundly reject.

I would be amused by some DOOM benchmarks. Let’s see how many zeroes we can get before the FPS counter breaks!

Before I say anything, I think Gamer’s Nexus only testing with Bazzite makes a ton of sense. It would be silly to expect them to test with Windows S, N, Pro, LTSC, etc as well.

Lets be real, Ubuntu/Arch is the way to go.

The distinction between Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian are pretty minor as far as gaming goes. They are all considered the same family for a reason.

Debian is just not present on gaming set ups

Linux Mint (a Debian-based distro) and Ubuntu (also Debian-based) are extremely popular in gaming setups. In fact, the steam hardware survey has Mint 22.2, Ubuntu Core 22, Ubuntu 24, and Mint 22.1 as the second, third, fourth, and fifth most common Linux OSes.

Then we wrap back around to the start.

Correct. Murdering a male should be just as illegal as murdering a female.

How is it sexist?

Murdering someone due to their sex is not illegal under this law, if the victim is a male. Murdering a male due to their sex should be no less illegal.

If someone murdered a male due to their sex, would you treat that any differently than someone murdering a female due to their sex?

If perpetrators happen to be of one sex more often, then it means the rates of being charged with the relevant crime will be higher for that sex.

A crime must be treated equally, regardless of sex. The law treating one differently based on their sex is itself sexist. As I stated before, this should have been something that applies to all: ‘murdering someone due to their sex is now a hate crime’.

Exactly. This should have been something that applies to all: ‘murdering someone due to their sex is now a hate crime’.

Having the law give more consideration to one sex over another, particularly with something like murder, is quite sexist.