No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon

Re:No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 com... by cmcaleer on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:52PM (#38299725)

This frustrated me for years but I just grinned and borne with it because game compatibility and WSL meant I could do basically anything I wanted in Windows and it was what I knew.

Then one day WSL wasn't enough due to dumb compatibility reasons so I decided to dual boot Ubuntu.

Then very shortly after I just... stopped booting in to Windows for anything other than gaming. It was very strange. I've shitposted about year of the Linux desktop since I was a teenager but I never thought it would actually happen to me. It's not a buttery smooth transition - not by a long shot, but I'll take dumb Discord updating behaviour over random updates which make me panic that I downloaded malware from a Google ad. The time I spend on what I would consider dumb bullshit where I'm fighting the OS is about the same.

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Re:No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 com... by bigstrat2003 on Friday November 17, 2023 @02:53AM (#38300730)

Honestly, you don't even need Windows for gaming for the most part. 90% or more of the games I play run on Proton without any tweaking needed. The few exceptions are games which use anti cheat rootkits, games which I want to stream to my friends in discord (which doesn't pick up audio on Linux), and CP2077 (which doesn't seem to like ray tracing in proton).

I was very pleasantly surprised how smooth gaming on Linux is. I maintain a Windows 10 install and will for the foreseeable future, just for the odd cases where I need it. But I rarely boot into it any more.

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