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Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming — but I'm not getting my hopes up (www.techradar.com)
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Microsoft is working on a new project labeled Windows 'K2', intent on removing bloatware, reducing AI, and optimizing Windows 11 for gaming, with three focuses of 'performance, craft, and reliability'.

the issue is not about performance, is about enshitification. I mean, do we need TPM? do we need Microslop account to login our pc/laptop? do they really need to shove Copilot into Windows?

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[–] 33 points 6 months ago (15 children)

I abandoned Windows for Linux rather than update to Windows 11. I will be interested to see what Microsoft does, but at this point I seriously doubt they're going to be able to give me a good enough reason to return to Windows as my primary OS. At this point I only need it for a few applications that don't have a Linux equivalent and don't run on Wine.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I know it's not possible for everyone, but I just cut ties with any application that wouldn't work on Linux and found alternatives.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I hate that I need to keep one computer in my household on windows to be able to run my business. I've got 4 programs that I need to connect to my machines or I can't do anything.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Have you tried to Winboat the apps missing ?

    I also switched earlier this year to cachyos. I'm definitely not going back. The simple fact that I need to boot the Windows old partition to update it makes me anxious.

    I feel so much more in control of my operating system it feels really nice.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Seconding Winboat, works great for the one piece of software I have that is stuck on Windows. At this point I am 100% not going back, I even wiped my Windows disk. That drive is for trying out other distros now.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Winboat looks really interesting. How does it compare to just using WinApps? It seems like it's basically just doing the heavy lifting for setting programs up, yeah?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It's very similar. I found WinApps to be quite flaky, where WinBoat feels much more solid. However, a nice feature of WinApps is the ability to set the Windows apps as the default file type, and you can open files from the right click > Open With, which you can't do with WinBoat. Not that I've found, anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Nice, the default file types isn't a deal breaker for me. I'll have to give it a shot! I've been testing debian on my laptop before changing my desktop over. Hadn't found a good solution for a handful of my windows-only programs yet but this seems like it might do the trick.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Yep, I had a look at Winboat. It's effectively a Windows VM anyway (using RDP), so for the sake of the couple of applications I need Windows for (which mostly interact with each other), VirtualBox with a VM is easier for me to manage.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think they care as long as your employer is still using Windows. They will get really scared if school systems start adopting Linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Eh, TPM is pretty convenient for full-disk encryption tbh

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