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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 8 months ago by catch22@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.

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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Gaming is the primary driver behind my PC choices by a humongous margin. I'm not really concerned about imvasive anti-cheat software, I don't want to tinker with settings, I want to turn on my computer and play video games. That means I use Windows.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

As someone who just installed Linux Mint as a test and uses their machine mostly for gaming:

Linux is perfectly fine for that, too. I had one minor issue that was fixed by plugging a cord into a different plug on my machine and have otherwise had 0 issues getting things to run on the Linux partition of my system.

I actually have seen mostly better performance in the realm of about 10fps better per game than the Win 10 install on the same hardware

Spent less time tinkering with the settings (done via GUI that makes more sense than windoes' 15 different settings menus) than I never have in any version of Windows, synched my firefox over, boom.

Not gonna say Linux is perfect for everything but it does seem a lot of people think it's harder/worse than it is by a mile

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't compute here. Like I have literally 0 problems with Windows. That's certainly not been my experience with Linux. Oh bought a new drawing tablet, nah that won't work. Oh need to update for firmware on a device, yeah better have windows. Oh you bought a recent printer, better not use Linux.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

It will be like that as long as people are so used to bad products. Linux will have similar but better support if it has more users. It already improved a lot. This myth of printers/tablets not working got quite old now