My favorite part is how it'll reinstall itself every so often when the OS updates. I used to be able to brick that in registry but its changed again to where that trick doesnt work anymore.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Here's how you can fix that problem permanently.

[–] Zulu@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Correct, but thats not really a solution as i would still need to emulate a windows OS to play the games i want.

That said, linux has come a far way in that regard. Hopefully just another few years.

Windows becoming more of a service/subscription will hopefully speed that process up as people abandon ship.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (7 children)

That said, linux has come a far way in that regard. Hopefully just another few years.

Have you actually tried it lately? I've been gaming exclusively on Linux since a few years ago, at this point.

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, I have one game that will not work in Linux. I have thousands of hours in it, and I truly love it.

Rust

Also, apparently I'm a masochist

[–] alci@jlai.lu 4 points 8 months ago

Works perfectly on Linux.Just run rustup.

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[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That says more about the games you play than the capacity of Linux. Now do it without proton or wine, or pick any unsupported AAA game.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Saying do it without proton or wine in response is insane, it's like saying "Now do it without your gpu plugged in." They aren't native Linux, but who cares as long as they run well.

The few games with problematic anticheat are a deal issue though.

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

No, there no equivalent because windows doesn't need third party interpretors for AAA gaming software

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Delete the win32 API and DirectX DLL files (which is basically all WINE is replicating) and see how well Windows plays your games then!

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I'll delete what my system is having to replicate and you do too, let's see who can run games.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I simply don't care. Games run fine under proton, why should I?

It's not even extra work you have to do, steam handles pretty much all of it.

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (13 children)

You don't have to care, but don't expect others not to just because you're OK with a substandard experience. If you're OK eating shit that's fine, but don't trytell me it's chocolate when I'm holding real chocolate.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (13 children)

Proton simply does not deliver a meaningfully substandard experience. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's worse. I'd bet the majority of steam deck users don't even know what it is.

Most games take a slight performance hit, so small you won't notice unless you're watching the numbers. Some games even have better performance on proton than native windows.

Why do you think it's substandard?

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[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You out here comparing windows to real chocolate?

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[–] Dimpships@feddit.uk 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, have you?

areweanticheatyet.com

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I don't give a fuck about a negligible 117 games, compared to the thousands upon thousands that run in Linux just fine. Posting a pie chart that ignores the existence of those just so it can misleadingly pretend 37% of anything is "broken" on Linux is bordering on bad faith.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Love that they chose to cherrypick the one thing pretty much everyone has talked about being the issue left to fix. Looking at games people actually play, it's like 3%.

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[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

well there used to be a hack that had kept my win10 system edge-free for around 4 years, edge just reinstalled itself tho (yesterday)

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[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 92 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Imagine what the poor bloke who had to delete this witnessed

[–] jopepa@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

I like to believe it’s Rick Santorum, with a growing paranoia that everything is becoming a synonym for scary lights on sex stuff.

[–] N0body@sh.itjust.works 81 points 8 months ago

I like to Edge by using a defective browser over and over before I open Firefox and climax.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago (3 children)

They're not the only ones:

[–] Verat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Definitely not lol, this one also went well

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago

And here you are, spreading their ads even in a community that's super pretective of their adblocks. It works as indended.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

https://www.truthorfiction.com/jersey-mikes-how-do-you-top-your-sub-blocked-blocked-blocked-none-of-you-are-free-from-sin-tweets/

[–] bbpolterGAYst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 8 months ago

who up edgin they browser

[–] crsu@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Edgelord mothermother

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 months ago

Conceived in a hell beyond your depth of perception break of the edgecrusher

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

So that's what Edge is for!

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Damn, why delete a post with 938 likes!?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Probably because they had accidentally asked people to share amateur porn with them. NSFW Wikipedia article about edging

[–] NekoRogue@slrpnk.net 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like they did it on purpose for the attention. Otherwise what would a "memorable edge" be? A screenshot of a website? They knew what they were doing.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It's tough to tell with Microsoft, really. They're definitely cynical and duplicitous enough to do it on purpose and play it off as an unfortunate mistake, but they've also shown themselves to be stupid and out of touch enough that it could be an ACTUAL mistake 🤷

Otherwise what would a "memorable edge" be?

Ever since Google became a verb, tons of other corporations have been super needy about wanting to be verbed, nouned or (as in this case) verbed and then nouned. It's pathetic, really.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They actually paid money to get „bing it“ into tv shows:

https://youtu.be/nfHuZ5qrYX4

https://youtu.be/talcGAOj9YQ

So yes, they are absolutely that pathetic.

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

stupid and out of touch enough

You have a point overall, but remember that whoever posts this is a person with writing and technology skills, it's not done by a MS-approved committee. The person who wrote it might have free rein over the account, or they might be showing their tweets to an editor first, but one way or another some actual human had to put these sentences together and think about what they meant. So did MS hire and retain someone who has never heard of edging? Possible, but I find it hard to believe.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just because it's amateur doesn't mean it's not good.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

True, but it's probably even more of a legal and PR minefield for Microsoft to ask people for than pro porn would have been lol

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[–] nLuLukna@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago

Why on earth would they delete a post with nearly 1000 likes? Cant quite see why

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