Ehh... It has a plugin that lets you run their web client from within Thunderbird. To me that doesn't really count, but maybe it does for you and all power to you if so.

Edit: Typo

After looking into it quite a bit myself, the ones that seem most promising are Mailbox, Posteo, Tuta and Fastmail. I've tried all of them except for Mailbox and they're all pretty solid options.

Each have their selling points, so I would recommend taking a quick look at all of them before deciding. Posteo for example is really cheap unless you need loads of extra aliases and storage, but does not support custom domains. Tuta does not support third party clients. Fastmail is kinda expensive, but gives you more storage than the others and some extra features. Mailbox seems really similar to Posteo to me in a lot of ways, but has more features in their more expensive plans.

How does this guy still have supporters..? I'm tired, boss.

For you it wouldn't really matter much. It is a big improvement and very much noticeable, but it matters much more for people like me that only runs Steam when I'm about to play a game through it which can happen several times a day.

It didn't really bother me before, but it has been kind of slow to start for a long time. Bad enough for me to notice that's it's slow, but not bad enough to feel the need to complain about it.

Now it only takes about 6 seconds for me which is perfectly fine. As someone who only runs Steam when I'm about to play a game through it, it's a very noticeable improvement!

I completely agree that Nvidia is one of the least consumer-friendly companies, but for a long time they have simply offered the better features like DLSS and RT efficiency. And depending on the tier of card you're buying, that is also the case in terms of raw performance, even now.

AMD and Intel also has their share of shitty practices, so it's not like you either buy from "the good guys" or "the bad guys". They're all corporations that would, and do, happily screw you over if it means more money.

I agree though. While there are some valid reasons for buying an Nvidia GPU, a lot of people keep buying them simply because they're used to it or that they're already popular. If something like the 9070 XT, or any weaker cards, would meet your needs then you should seriously consider looking elsewhere than Nvidia.

I didn't mean it in a philosophical or ethical sense. Yes, their formal W11 requirements are stupid, but you can literally ignore them.

Some of the requirements are just there on paper and the installer will let you continue regardless. And the rest can be disabled by flashing the ISO with Rufus and toggling that option on. Yes, this risks you not getting updates in the future and may affect certain (not very important) functions, but you absolutely can ignore the requirements if you want to, and as far as I know no one has been denied support so far.

Well yes, but this whole thread is about Windows 11 which is a desktop OS, so I thought that went without saying.

Of course there is. It's compatible with almost any software and hardware (if you ignore their arbitrary W11 "requirements" which you can in most cases) that you can get your hands on. Microsoft and Windows deserve most of the flack they're getting, but we should be honest.

Take Linux as a comparison. Compatibility is pretty good nowadays and is only getting better, especially with all the work going into Proton from both Valve and the community. But certain things are simply not supported which can make it either difficult or straight up impossible to get to work. Not that Linux is to blame for that, of course, but it is reality.

I wonder what makes this different or better compared to something like Amethyst. I haven't really gotten around to trying the latter either yet, but that's the one I keep hearing about.

I also think the name "Early Access" is misleading. You're really paying to become a beta/alpha tester which also includes a license to the full release when/if that happens. If that is what you want, then that's fine, and the product page always details the current state and plans, but I still think it's a tiny bit problematic.

Personally I ignore most Early Access games altogether and only buy if the price clearly makes sense for what the game offers at that moment and that seems pretty rare.

CachyOS is also great for gaming, but calling it "a gaming distro" is underselling it for people who do not care much for gaming. It's a highly optimized general-use distro that is also great for gaming.

But by default it does not install any gaming-related packages, so calling it a gaming distro is wrong. It has a shortcut to install everything most people would want for gaming, and the team also tunes it in ways that benefits gaming, and they also have their own Proton fork called Proton-CachyOS that is in my opinion the best one. Right now it is still based on a relatively old Experimental version because the main dev behind it is taking a break, but it's normally very up-to-date on everything including new features and fixes.

Plenty of people do not want the "bloat" that actual gaming distros include by default and CachyOS is the best of both worlds. Pretty clean by default, with easy access to gaming tools if you want that.