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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by Zurrrrr on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:36AM (#35326521)
Yeah it's ridiculous. The nerve to keep forcing something on a user after they have clearly rejected it. Honestly that kind of crap should be illegal IMO.

After a lot of GPO settings and hacks I've tamed W10 to be acceptable, but it's still crappy on principle.

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by chillfox on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:39AM (#35335977)
Oh, I am sure I could wrestle Windows into submission if I wanted to. I just don't want to fight with my computer.

If Steam was not available on Linux then I would likely still have abandoned Windows and just limited my gaming to whatever runs on a Nintendo Switch.

Anyway, My husband decided to stick with Windows for his gaming computer (same hardware as mine) and my Linux computer (with ZFS) can load every game in under half the time it takes his machine.

It did take a day to figure out the magic environment variables to better performance in games, but now that I got them I just copy paste them for new games.

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by Zurrrrr on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:56AM (#35336096)
> It did take a day to figure out the magic environment variables to better performance in games,

What are your main? If you don't mind sharing?

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by chillfox on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:07AM (#35336953) 

  PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 gamemoderun %command%
That the main thing I add for most games in Steam.
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