“Are you not a gamer???” he said unironically while trying to defend a $2.75 trillion company that has laid off thousands of game developers after promising it wouldn’t in order to get approval to buy one of its biggest competitors.  Just one of many attempts to solidify its dominance at the cost of gamers and the people that make games.  I wonder why people “continue to hate”, it must be all those other comments that are “braindead”.

> Why would you not want to play all games?

My steam library is well over 600 games, the vast majority of games I want to play are playable on Linux.  Why would I pay money for an operating system as shitty as Windows just to play a couple of games that use kernel level anti cheat.  And why would I pay money for a game that demands kernel level access to my system.  I honestly can’t think of a single PC game I actually want to play that I can’t.

Use whatever OS suits you, just don’t get salty when people laugh at Microsoft trying to deal with the aftermath of them pissing off a subsection of gamers and computer users over the years.

I am indeed a gamer. I also prefer My software to not stop me from gaming.

For example, 1/5 of my windows system is in Hungarian. This is a common problem when creating a windows iso. It is not possible to create one without leaving some trage of the last system behind. There is no fix to this.

Here's a list of the rest:

• the N version without the stuff that would be illegal in Europe cannot install media codecs from windows itself (which I can't game without)
• the menu crashes and dosent return
• their central repo is just as much a scam as simply using softonic or some other shady download site
• Their Game Bar along with everything else can only be uninstalled via a shady script
• I had to reinstall twice in a day because my system gets in a random.updating screen without me ever prompting it to update and never stopping until I force shut it down

Or in your words: It can't game if I install Windows (See point 1). Aren't you a gamer??? How can't you game without games?

Or, to not kill the few remaining braincells of the people who still have some: I'd prefer to play 99% of my library without having an aneurism than 5 more games (like, fortnite, Arena Breakout Infinite, Tarkov (Delta force also, but that game is dead)

I think you might have misread my comment. I was saying the feature only just gets to the same performance, while using it means having to deal with Windows.

If you mean the incompatibility of some anticheat titles - I think kernel level anticheat is an unmeritted level of system access, so I wouldn't use them either way.