I just upgraded my hardware and when booting Windows back up, I got the error that basically says “Your license no longer works, you need to buy a new one”. I’m happy to say that I’ll be using Bazzite as my main driver for now on. It’s honestly been great and works great if you use Steam alot.
On the one hand, you can usually contract MS support and tell them you just upgraded your hardware and they can re-enable your key. That thing was meant to stop people from sharing keys and limit how many PCs they have running that key at once, not to force a new key for upgrades. Assuming they still even do that, as it’s been a while since I needed to.
But on the other hand, it sounds like you already found an even better solution.
Disabling automatic updates should be a no-brainer. Really.
I bought a pro license for win10 specifically because I learned that it gave better control over updates via group policy.
Now I use Fedora, which implemented updates in a way that doesn’t imply “ok, this is all I’m doing until it finishes”, and it never interrupts what I’m doing.
if only there was a much better operating system for gaming
I don’t know if this is the right time to mention that the end result of the “sneak attack” in that clip was a hug and a cute moment between friends… Which … I don’t think was the vibe you were trying to get me to imagine.
Damn, I really thought he ended up attacking the other guy
He’s lying, Jason Momoa killed and ate Henry Cavil as is the custom
How could Aquaman do this
Homelander said it would be funny. And that he would kill him if he didn’t.
Man, The Boys was great those first few seasons
Loving pop!_os for gaming
CachyOS has been absolutely fantastic for me. As a quick example: I just installed Minecraft Java edition with the Prism Launcher. It’s in the CachyOS repo, so it was 1 step to install Prism Launcher. Even easier than Windows—I didn’t even need to search for a download page. Come to think of it, I’ll also get automatic updates whenever I do a 1-step full system upgrade, so it’s going to be 0 maintenance.
The year of Linux has arrived. I used to make fun of all the Linux evangelists, but they’re right this time. Linux offers a better experience than Windows, for most common use cases.
I’m easily in the phase where I’m dropping $20+ on games without even thinking to look what their status is on ProtonDB. Windows is still around for some back-compat stuff and old projects I’m finishing, but I’m good where I am.
That said, on Cachy, does anyone have recommendations for a Calendar app that works with MS? I’ve tried a few, and a number of them don’t work on Cachy.
What’s MS? MicroSoft?
If so, I just use Chromium for my “work” browser with M365 web apps for most things, and only spin up my Windows 11 VM when I need to do heavier OneDrive or Excel tasks.
I’ve considered that, but webapps aren’t great for notifications. Even when they support them, they don’t always run persistently.
Bazzite’s been working pretty good for me. Was honestly easier to set up too, and fights me less, and runs smoother, and also doesn’t spy on me.
Glad it works for you. I gave it a shot, and had some big problems, in part with desktop usability and installing non-gaming apps. So much dependence on virtual layers.
Git gud.
Just kidding. You can do most things in distrobox, it’s pretty easy. On the rare occasion, you might need to layer a package with rpm-ostree to add it to your OS image.
Everything else is flatpak pretty much. There is a slight learning curve if you’re familiar with mutable distros, but you can do pretty much anything you want on it.
I want to like bazzite, but their dependence on fedora makes me nervous. As soon as IBM tells red hat to drop x86 32bit things will start to fall apart quickly.
to drop x86 32bit things will start to fall apart quickly
Why dropping x86 32-bit is an issue?
Steam and most of the content it delivers requires 32bit libraries to link into. Steam could build for 64bit, but it won’t help the gigantic amount of games that are 32bit also.
It would look a lot like steam on macos looks; so many games that technically should work, but have a little 🚫 next to them because macos bo longer ships with the 32bit libraries needed.
Steam could build for 64bit
Steam is doing that, though rather piecemeal. Both their client and runtime are moving towards 64-bit.
but it won’t help the gigantic amount of games that are 32bit also.
Doesn’t WINE’s WOW64 implementation solve this? Albeit with a non perfect compatibility.
because macos bo longer ships with the 32bit libraries needed.
I have no idea what the MacOS software landscape looks like, but if it uses WINE it might just be its silver bullet? If Steam does move towards 64-bit only, they would want to keep it compatible with Linux, due to their SteamOS ecosystem, and in turn MacOS users could also reap the benefits.
In the case of macos, it doesn’t even use proton. As for windows games on linux, I’m unsure of the exact specifics so I can’t argue them with you. The issue is any game with a linux build will require 32bit libraries to be available, and the community would have to do all of that support themselves.
Ah. I understand now. I can see most distros dropping support for 32-bit libraries if this happens, my guess would be distro derivatives mantainers taking this burden instead. It’s not gonna be pretty for old or abandoned 32-bit linux builds.
Lol skill issue. I use Bazzite BTW.
Install stepmania and tell me how, I’m suffering.
Can’t tell if serious. But there are like… Uh… Instructions on how to install Stepmania. Works for Linux. https://github.com/stepmania/stepmania
/ed: lol you can compile from source! Gentoo Penguin.ico
Yeah I tried a bunch of stuff and kept hitting walls. Cmake doesn’t work on bazzite or my mint on distrobox. Apt-get install on mint checked some dependencies but didn’t install anything. Think I tried pulling source files from git but something went wrong there too. Tried stable and beta branch as well. I kept notes on my efforts I can check later for more accurate info.
Use an Arch distrobox and install from the AUR.
Arch box endlessly (30+ mins) loading apps for export so I can’t even open AUR, but I noticed stepmania pop up in bazaar so… One click install basically. Finding the folder to drop songs in was a small hassle and themes and announcers aren’t showing up, but the game runs and songs show up so I’m content for now. Gonna see if the dance mat works tomorrow.
Thanks will try that.
How about BIOS update?
EAC games were literally unplayable on my machine without updating my BIOS.
because they don’t give a fuck about you
can’t wait to move to a new system
Waiting for SteamOS to replace Windows
Spin up some Linux distro while you wait.
Especially if you’re a “power user”, you’ll have a lot of unlearning to do, might as well get started and go in prepared for a lot of disappointment.
I wouldn’t count on Valve for a desktop OS. Their main responsibility is a good user experience on the Deck and Machine, which will be pretty console-like. Desktop mode’s good enough for maintenance and modding, but not for vast hardware support.
There are some other general recommendations across Lemmy, but the ones that come up a lot are PopOS, CachyOS, and Bazzite.
The Windows Updatinator!!! This will cause every Windows computer in the tri state area to restart five times over the next hour while constantly telling the user it’s almost done with updates!
[installs Linux]
Curse you Perry the Platypus!!!
I’ve been on Debian for years now. I’ll update when I’m done gaming.
Doesn’t look like a shitpost to me
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