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> The only real issues these days are with anti-cheat stuff in competitive multiplayer games Every game I play is a competitive multiplayer game.
With which anticheats? BattleEye and EasyAnticheat work pretty well with Proton nowadays, you won't have luck with stuff like Ricochet though.
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But remember, it's Linux that's only free if you don't value your time;)
Definitely not to "time sink parity" with Linux just yet. Depending on what you need your machine for, of course.
Best defence is to have 100+ icons on the desktop…
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I wish there was a genuine Pro version of Windows I could pay for that didn’t have any of this.
LTSC doesn't, but it's not easily available through conventional retail channels. If you're putting a Windows machine in a kiosk, POS, machine, or similar commercial setting, though, LTSC is the way to go.
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I ran 2012 R2 as a daily driver for a long time.
Likewise - like for 8 years. Now I'm on 2016, and actually just today started to investigate where to go from here. Probably will stick with Windows (2022) as host OS for my VMs.
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Weird thing is I use Surface kit, ie despite everything being from Microsoft I can’t pay them money to get a Windows (Workstation or LTSP) without ads.
>> I can’t pay them money to get a Windows (Workstation or LTSP) without ads. If you could, they would be acknowledging that the ads were bad.
MS being MS. Lots on this site said it's a new MS, no more of the old shenanigans and yet here we are...
Windows never changed. It was a “new Microsoft” because they stopped making windows the center of their existence. now windows takes a lower priority behind xbox even within it’s own division.
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Tried, not good enough. I don't understand why this conversation has to be had ad nauseam.
When did you try, and which genres? Out of all the 20+ games that I bought in the last two years, all of them were Gold or Platinum rank on ProtonDB. The only real issues these days are with anti-cheat stuff in competitive multiplayer games.
linux is close, but it still doesn't have the desktop experience as good as windows by default
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Likewise - like for 8 years. Now I'm on 2016, and actually just today started to investigate where to go from here. Probably will stick with Windows (2022) as host OS for my VMs.
What is Windows (2022)? Where can you get it?
Here's a guide on how to prevent this from happening: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/01/21/how-to-block-microsoft-edg... > The workaround requires edits of the Registry. There is a global edit that applies to all Edge channels and edits for each individual version of the web browser.
> The workaround is to uninstall Windows