ritualclarity Posted December 24, 2025 Posted December 24, 2025 Too much of a challenge? NOt flexibile enough? 1 Quote
Doublezero Posted December 25, 2025 Author Posted December 25, 2025 This was an unfair comparison. This YouTuber should have found a Linux distro that takes snapshots of the desktop and sends personal data to Microsoft's servers. 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted December 25, 2025 Posted December 25, 2025 47 minutes ago, Doublezero said: This was an unfair comparison. This YouTuber should have found a Linux distro that takes snapshots of the desktop and sends personal data to Microsoft's servers. That is a great idea! Wait. There isn't a Linux distribution that takes snapshots of the desktops and sends personal data to Microsoft servers ro any servers for that fact Also, correct me if I am wrong. These aren't games optimized for Linux. I'd be curious to see games that have optimized versions for Linux besides the windows ones. 1 Quote
KHL Posted December 27, 2025 Posted December 27, 2025 Fucking greedy cunts are actually surprised. Now they lose the monopoly they've had for decades and a fuckton of $$$. I WILL NOT SWITCH to this garbage!!! 1 Quote
KHL Posted December 27, 2025 Posted December 27, 2025 On 12/25/2025 at 10:46 AM, Doublezero said: This was an unfair comparison. This YouTuber should have found a Linux distro that takes snapshots of the desktop and sends personal data to Microsoft's servers. I know it's ancient, but that's the GPU I've been using for six years now and get about the same performance. Again, MS just completely fucked themselves with their greed. Quote
ritualclarity Posted December 27, 2025 Posted December 27, 2025 5 hours ago, KHL said: Fucking greedy cunts are actually surprised. Now they lose the monopoly they've had for decades and a fuckton of $$$. I WILL NOT SWITCH to this garbage!!! I currently have a higher end machine for gaming. That has Windows 11 and it has an account since I wanted shit to work and not have to screw around with it. It only gets mygaming information and the occasional email look up for work which it has already through that spyware being installed as my work computer operating system. This computer, isn't windows. It is older than tpm 2.0 and doesn't have the survalance options that are available now as well as it is running Linux mint. (or whatever flavor I want to play with at the time lol) NO problems and few vectors for it to spy on me. Some spying from Firefox etc. I am also using vpn so that anyone seeing IP will see what I am wanting them to see (most of the time. there are ways to get past that from my understanding but they have to do the work for anything worthy from me ) I've recently gotten a yubi key for some added security for selected accounts I have. Even harder for them to grab information (other than the service I am using at the time of course. they have the information. That is expected of course. If I didn't want them to have it... why am I using their services? 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted January 4 Posted January 4 Interesting. Normally, I like Debian as it is more stable and has more easily available support. What most people would atomically give you in commands. Arch isn't as common commands found when looking for general support. I would advise a Debian based Linux to start however, once you are more comfortable with Linux and willing to and know how to find more support and importantly understand if you are looking at a Debian command vs, Fedora vs Arch in general and you want more bleeding edge and "rolling updates" and most of all more control, this might be something you would want to look at. Quote
ritualclarity Posted January 4 Posted January 4 I haven't done this yet but his other videos are pretty solid. Quote
Doublezero Posted January 18 Author Posted January 18 The biggest issue for me with WinBoat is the lack of GPU acceleration, and it doesn't sound like the developers will have a solution anytime soon. 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Yes, this is true. However, they claim that they have limited success currently. It also won't be a Flatpak for those that prefer the clean option for software use. AT least I can't see it being able to do that as it requires too much low level access. Snap maybe, not Flatpak Regardless, it is a good solution for those non GPU programs that people need that might be holding them back from converting. Office, for example. Sure, there is some success with Wine and other options, but this is much more solid and reliable as it uses the actual windows programming. DLL etc. There is one more issues that you didn't mention, but I want to point out. It is WINDOWS in Linux. This can mean that there is a very real possibility of security issues. Not as serious as a traditional Windows install, but still those components can allow access. That combined with access to your files etc. can be a security issue IMO. Another issue is man-hours are being taken away from developing the programs that translate the Windows in real time. Tools like Proton and Wine to wedge a full Windows OS into Linux. This option bloats your install, where translation programs are more effective and provide less bloat. (not to mention more secure) Still it is an interesting option. A option I believe people did years ago by taking various components of Windows in an attempt to make it more compatible. Before Wine and other tools were developed to replace those DLLs etc. 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted Sunday at 09:38 PM Posted Sunday at 09:38 PM IT has been awhile on my daily driver and I decided to swap it out with a slightly more powerful option I had laying around. Unlike Windoze it only took a couple of minutes. I seriously doubt it took more than 20 minutes to both install, update, install my prefrerred programs and configure everyting including all my book marks and such. It can take 20 minutes, if you are lucky, to just install windoze 11. Not to mention the hours of updates and other pain in the ass steps you have to do to get a running functional OS to start work. This current one has Linux Minit. Quickest and easiest to load. The old one which is being replaced will have Fedora Silverblue (immutable OS) for me to play with. I need to learn some network configuration encripting DNS and VPN configuraton which I have a bit of experience with but this will be through command line and config files. More work but I am starting to understand some of this. Quote
Doublezero Posted Monday at 01:58 PM Author Posted Monday at 01:58 PM This isn't the end of Windows, but I believe this marks the beginning of the end of its dominance in the consumer desktop market. 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted Tuesday at 12:04 AM Posted Tuesday at 12:04 AM 10 hours ago, Doublezero said: This isn't the end of Windows, but I believe this marks the beginning of the end of its dominance in the consumer desktop market. GOG was sold? Nice that they will support Linux. Lets hope they do something like Steam or help support the convesion of these games to Linux Quote
ritualclarity Posted Wednesday at 10:19 PM Posted Wednesday at 10:19 PM I put this here even though it is hardware due to the fact this is mainly showcasing Linux distro Catchy. You can ignore this aspect and use the information to build your own computer just put on Windows 11 if that is your desire. I did try catchy and it was fast. Disclosure, I didn't do much in the way of gaming to test it out but I did play around with the setup and making sure the gaming tools were installed and it was extremely easy to set up the base sytem. They have some tools that you can click on to install all the basic components for gaming in one click. NO need to know proton this and Lutris that or the like is very nice. HOwever, it is a Arch Linux and does rolling updates which can cause trouble and require some tweaking and owrk to keep it going. You can get around this by having a solid backup of your OS and just roll back when you have a problem then update later as it works. I still believe Bazzite due to it being immutable OS (meaning to those that don't know you can't harm the OS) makes it more solid for those that either don't want to mess with linux systems etc. and just want to run a gaming system or those that don't know how to do these things and want to use a non Windows system to run their games. Bazzites only draw back for either of the above is you have to wait for a update to fix any issues when an update breaks something. The great thing is a quick easy command you can revert to an older "image" and get back up and running. YOu can also use a second easy command to "Pin" a favorite version to keep it running well. If you want to have a bit more control This you can learn in about 10 minutes. Hell I don't know much but I can easily copy paste the basics that will let you control the versions of the OS, pin, clear pins and revert in a single post here. lol. When you decide to retire that gaming system and use it for basic computing again, you can "rebase" to another immutable os like Silverblue with a command. LOL. Remove all the stuff that made this a gaming computer without having to use a usb drive and go thorugh the installation process for another OS. The same pin process, commandds etc still work on this version as well Quote
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