Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30
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My understanding is that a lot of it has to do with the Steam Deck, which is Valve's handheld gaming platform. Valve wanted it to run most of their catalog, but they also decided to use Windows emulation rather than Windows, so they forked Wine and put some money and effort into improving it.
But some games are harder to run than others.
If you use Steam, it might be as easy as installing it from Steam, because sometimes the games are multi-platform. FTL is an example of this that I currently have installed. But it seems like more and more game developers want their games to run on the Steam Deck, so they release native Linux versions. (Ironically, I think FTL doesn't run well on the Steam Deck.)
Some games run simply by telling the Steam launcher to use Proton as a compatibility tool. So, the only hard part is choosing which version of Proton to run, which involves picking it from a list inside of Steam, which then downloads that version of Proton, and then trying the game. And if it doesn't run well, then try a different version of Proton and iterate. IIRC Rocket League is a game like this. On my computer, it seems to run best with the latest Proton beta. For me and my 5 year old computer, it doesn't run as perfectly as well as it did in Windows, as it can stutter a bit when there are explosions on screen, but for me, it doesn't seem to impact my play. And it takes longer to load, but I don't think it's possible for an emulated game to load faster on the same hardware.
And some games require you to look up how to install them, and you end up having to install some Windows things into your Proton runtime using something called Protontricks. Skyrim is an example. It took a lot of fiddling to get it set up and the audio working correctly. But now I can't really tell the difference between how it runs in Windows vs. Linux, except that it takes longer to load in Linux.
They also give a lot of money to Codeweavers, the developers of WINE, so that WINE can have enough developers to support it.
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WINE is not an emulator
For the new guys, you'll notice a lot of this kind of thing because developers think recursion is clever.
For example, GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix"
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Don't you need a Windows account to buy a key?
Back in the days of Dinosaurs and AOL CDs, you could just go to Best Buy and buy a CD with the Windows software and a key was printed on a scratch-off panel.
You could even just buy a key electronically from some grey market websites.
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Jellyfin. The HDDs were only ~$110 each. Seagate 5400s but w/e it's mass storage. No raid, drives will just be filled, cloned, and the clone dropped into a second system, also with no windows 🤬
Look at ZFS, it's a bit more intelligent about using the space. They'll be part of a pool of drives that you create 'datasets'(basically virtual drives) from and you can choose your level of redundancy (including none at all if you want to roll the dice there).
I have a 20TB array, 16TB available. It's already saved me from a lost disk. Using Seagate 5x 4TB 5400s also, with a NVME drive for the ZIL (speeds up writes). I have a 32GB ARC (a ZFS cache in RAM) so, even though the drives are slow the RAM and NVME drives ensure that it always feels snappy.
You can use zfs-send to clone the data to a new system without them having to have an exact copy of your original setup (if you're using drive images). It is a copy on write filesystem so it supports snapshotting (creating backups of the block level diffs, so it is very space efficient as it only stores the block-level changes to the file).
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and it certainly looks a lot slicker.
As someone who is still required to use Windows on my work laptop, hard disagree.
Im genuinely curious as to what themes and DE you’re using that looks better. In Windows everything is slick and polished, stuff slides and bounces around, the colours are consistent and work together, it’s all pretty elegant. I’m using KDE right now and all that I get is the start menu thing changes shade when I hover the mouse over it. I also use Gnome and XFCE, Gnome is pretty good and XFCE is obviously really basic.
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I've occasionally tried using Linux in the past as my main desktop, because I think Windows as an OS is inferior, and lately because Linux's UI actually seems superior, but I always got suckered back into Windows because I wanted to play certain games.
I tried again last month, and this time, it's different. The games that I want to play work well enough in Linux. Some of them have native Linux builds. Others work well enough in Proton, which is Valve's version of Wine, a Windows emulation layer that can run Windows games in Linux.
I don't see any reason that I'd ever go back to Windows again.
Exactly. I tired SuSE back around 2001 and Ubuntu around 2006. It was not a better experience so I never stuck with them.
I started using Mint last year and it just stuck. There are some quirks and learning curves, but it's a good experience. Linux has changed a crap ton. -
Back in the days of Dinosaurs and AOL CDs, you could just go to Best Buy and buy a CD with the Windows software and a key was printed on a scratch-off panel.
You could even just buy a key electronically from some grey market websites.
It was still like that up until Windows 8, at least.
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"Linux can't run my cock and ball squeezing app!"
Good thing that Linux can run pretty much everything I want to play.
Ckb-new and and Streamdeck-gui still need some finishing touches so that E:D and DCS are identical to old Windows setup, but everything else seems to run without a hitch. -
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Back in the days of Dinosaurs and AOL CDs, you could just go to Best Buy and buy a CD with the Windows software and a key was printed on a scratch-off panel.
You could even just buy a key electronically from some grey market websites.
Right, well, its not 2003 anymore
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Oh well. I'm just glad I can access all my files on NTFS so I don't even have to migrate anything.
Maybe reinstall some games, and say no more to others, but that's the way things be.
Oh well. I'm just glad I can access all my files on NTFS
Shhh! Don't give them ideas...
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Right, well, its not 2003 anymore
What's your point? Is it now somehow no longer physically possible to sell product keys in store due to some higher decree?
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A key, exactly like they did it for decades? Same way they verified you paid for that copy of Windows?
As someone who has actually never bough a Windows key even though I started with Win 98, and I before this Win 10 installation have never genuinely activated any them, I quite easily understand why they don't do it that way any more. I also do remember back when Windows 7 was going through this exact same thing how trivially easy it was to get those updates without paying - so easy in fact that most people assumed MS did it on purpose just so that people would rather pirate them than run an unpatched installation for three years.
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No. I'm clean man. I can't. Not again.
Just a little match. For old time's sake
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Honestly, Adobe and Microsoft deserve each other. It's Adobe you should reach to get you a solution, not us, Linux users. As much as we would like to help you, you are caged by Adobe and your industry "standards".
I'm so weirded out that Adobe has a native Linux version of their substance Suite. Only available via steam
I'd love to know what weird skunkworks shenanigans are happening in that Adobe apartment
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What is Pete Davidson doing to that poor soul?
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I wouldn't say good
Supported until 2032
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So use anything but Windows? Got it.
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Depends on what you're looking for, for some fields there are fantastic options already.
The others... Well considering the trajectory I'm seeing now (as a multiple decade Linux user), I think a lot more will start building for it. Maybe one flavor to start, but I do think it will be much more common.
I'm seeing it with some of my clients already.
CAD/CAM, PLC IDEs
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Oh well. I'm just glad I can access all my files on NTFS
Shhh! Don't give them ideas...
They've already been pushing their idea to prevent this for years. It's called OneDrive
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