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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by HenryKissinger on Saturday September 28, 2019 @09:15PM (#21104316)
Windows remains the most convenient OS for video games, and given HN's userbase (mostly young men), I think a lot of people here use Windows.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by arvinsim on Saturday September 28, 2019 @09:56PM (#21104493)
Windows is also the OS that doesn't require relatively expensive hardware(MacOS barring hackintosh) and doesn't require that much fiddling(Linux).

It's basically the good enough option that most people would use.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by sundvor on Sunday September 29, 2019 @02:15AM (#21105435)
It also lets you build bloody good ones. The 3950X will be a ripper when it's out, couple that with a PCIE4 nvme, 3600 MHz DDR4 and you'll have screaming performance for a relatively modest budget that'd cost you a mortgage and a firstborn under Apple - if at all possible.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by jhasse on Sunday September 29, 2019 @03:24AM (#21105632)
It will also work with Linux though.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by sundvor on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:16PM (#21110925)
Absolutely. I see a few people running Linux on their desktop, but the majority are on OSX.

The Linux / Windows world offers more performance for significantly less money, if you're prepared to learn about hardware.

I find it so much fun, although sometimes frustrating when things like bios bugs interfere with normal voltage levels - need to be more hands on these days than before.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by greggman2 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @09:41PM (#21104434)
Windows is also the arguably the domain of GPU related dev. I see lots of Razer laptops. They are small and same weight as a MBP but you can get a 2080 RTX (previously 1060 GTX). Even the newest MBA's GPU is not 1/2 as fast as the 3 year old Razer (and its peers)
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by fortran77 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @10:42PM (#21104677)
That's right. We use Surface Book with NVIDIA for our laptops and Thinkmate / Supermicro PCs. All with NVIDIA. Our Hollywood clients need NVIDIA for video rendering and we write software in CUDA/C++.

Windows 10 really does work great. Seriously!

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by bootlooped on Saturday September 28, 2019 @10:22PM (#21104599)
Are people really using these for work instead of just spinning up a cloud instance or using a desktop? I've always thought they were a horrible deal for gaming, and it seems like they'd still be a horrible deal for ML work or whatever.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by orangecat on Saturday September 28, 2019 @11:06PM (#21104779)
Windows remains the most convenient OS for video games

Steam's Proton is amazingly good. I recently switched from an iMac to a PC, and was expecting to use Windows for games and Linux for development, but Proton has run everything I've tried with excellent performance and stability.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by alpaca128 on Sunday September 29, 2019 @02:54AM (#21105544)
Go install Linux on a laptop with Nvidia Optimus hardware and you'll see how "amazingly good" Linux gaming is on many devices. No, Linux won't come close for at least the next 10 years. It's much better now with Proton, yes, but still not nearly enough. Even on my machine with the more compatible hardware at least 50% of games crash with Proton before you even see a window.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by likeclockwork on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:58AM (#21105962)
Wine works pretty well and compatibility is increasingly all the time. Proton integrating wine with Steam is quite convenient. Sure, not everything works.. but then I'm not going to buy every console and handheld just so I can play their exclusives either.

Everyone has their own values but...

I have more games than I can reasonably play in months installed and available to me already, with more coming out all the time.. there's no one game that would make me compromise everything just for recreation.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by ulzeraj on Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:41AM (#21105118)
I do but I don’t pay for it. I have a copy on boot camp and its been a while since the “Activate Windows” watermark stopped bothering me. It boots directly into Steam Big Picture. I know I know... but at least I’m not using malware infested solutions to keep it working.
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