Yezzey comments on Valve releases drivers, notes to make Windows work on Steam hardware, but refuses to support it - doesn’t offer support for ‘Windows on Steam Hardware,’ gaming company provides resources ‘as is’

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[–] Yezzey@lemmy.ca 70 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Microsoft has done the same thing for years. They provide software, drivers and workarounds for unsupported scenarios while making it clear they won't provide full support. Seems fair.

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[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

After working with Microsoft at the enterprise level I can say with confidence they do not offer full support on anything.

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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

It blows me away that EVERY machine I have worked on in manufacturing runs on Windows or some fuckin one-off HMI thing that has no documentation and can never be upgraded.

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Good luck getting 1-on-1 support from a representative at Microsoft, their support now is either articles or an LLM.

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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago

Hell, even Apple put in place the tools that Asahi needs to run on Apple Silicon.

They do literally nothing else, but the fact that Asahi can run in the first place is more than nothing.

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[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Unless you purchase a ~~slopbook~~ surface. Even then, good luck.

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