Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service

Re:Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service by thesuitonym on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:20PM (#38956319)

> For me; Its harder to fall into the "Oh - Ill just intall a bunch of these old games" distractions... or "what new games can this bitch run (slaps laptop's lid)"

Not to ruin your productivity but it's actually insanely easy to install a bunch of old games on Linux these days. And plenty of new games run just fine thanks to the advances Valve has been making with Proton.

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Re:Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service by samstave on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:28PM (#38956443)

I know - but its just another step of effort...

top 100 games on some torrent sites tell the story of where games are landing

https://i.imgur.com/1rT2wCL.png

EDIT: YOU REPLIERS ARE KILLING MY PREMISE! MAKING HARD TO NOT INSTALL GAMES ON MY LINUX DISTRO! So by making it "insanely easy" you are promoting why I dont want to install them!!! xo :-)

Thanks for keeping the DNA of my comment alive!!!

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Re:Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service by blibble on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:31PM (#38956510)

if you've bought it on steam it's exactly the same effort as windows

double click to install, wait a few minutes for the download, press play and it launches

as someone who grew up compiling different forks of wine with various patches to try to play half-life in the 2000s the improvement is quite incredible

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Re:Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service by realusername on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:56PM (#38956953)

You can just open it straight into steam with proton and that's it, there's no effort nowadays. And being old games, the compatibility might even be better than Windows 11...

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