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Hello, GOG has a New Year's sale going on! The place without DRM and other . Get your game you have been waiting for. They even have Fallout 4 on sale! Oblivion, check.

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

consider the game isn't DRM and you can roll back easily. Install it without having to use any service. That is worth a few dollars IMO. Also, disclaimer, I have about 20 games that I picked up from Luna (Amazon) for FREE. So with all these nice GOG games, a couple of dollars for a game to complete my set and have it free and support a company that is allowing you to download the game. menang actually OWN the game, It is something worthwile in my opinion. Luna has Fallout games (older ones) for free or at least had them free previously. I forget which one is free now but still good. Finally, with Bugthesda constantly ing on their game by making major problems with their "updates" making mods not work and even the game itself not work properly (screwing up something as simple as saves) it is a great peace of minde to have this. I might pick it up to have have collection over on GOG now.

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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.

I have a better suggestion, Microsoft. Uninstall Windows 11.

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.

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