Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ...
by alkonaut on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:17AM
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By "usable" I mean "is equivalent to" in terms of performance, availability. I should have used a better term than "usable" I suppose. It's usable with some caveats if you are willing to miss some titles, miss some performance and so on. It's not usable as a complete replacement for windows if you don't accept missing any titles, any performance.
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ...
by goosedragons on Monday March 27, 2023 @07:37AM
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Windows itself has issues with titles that don't work, or leave performance on the table. Granted these are older titles long out of the spotlight but by your metric Windows 11 can't be a complete replacement for Windows 98 or XP.
Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ...
by alkonaut on Monday March 27, 2023 @07:49AM
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Yes, the interesting segment imo is "online multiplayer AAA, released in the last 5 years".
Because when people buy gaming rigs with $1-$2k graphics cards, those are the titles they are likely to want to play. Anything simpler, older, indie, you can basically work around by other means (virtualization, emulation. Or the community or company, or driver vendor has caught up and "fixed" the problem, see e.g. Apex Legends).