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Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser

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Post by themoonisachees » Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 2:39 PM UTC

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #6

At which point will it be less work to just switch to a sane operating system and maybe use windows in a VM if you need some specific application?

I did that. It's going great, the only time I've needed windows was for VR and playing The Finals when the anticheat wasn't compatible with proton.

If your daily workflow only involves launching a web browser, or gaming, I heavily suggest switch thing to linux. It's really not that bad.

Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser

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Post by J_Shelby_J » Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 3:22 PM UTC

themoonisachees wrote: post #21

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #6

At which point will it be less work to just switch to a sane operating system and maybe use windows in a VM if you need some specific application?

I did that. It's going great, the only time I've needed windows was for VR and playing The Finals when the anticheat wasn't compatible with proton. If your daily workflow only involves launching a web browser, or gaming, I heavily suggest switch thing to linux. It's really not that bad.

How do you do fellow finals player.

How is performance in a VM?

Also, I assume this wouldn’t work with games like valorant ‘s anticheat?

Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser

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Post by buremba » Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 3:41 PM UTC

Karellen wrote: post #14

buremba wrote: post #12

It would be amusing to be able to do: Destroy me

--no-preserve-root

--you-know-what-im-talking-about

Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser

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Post by devwastaken » Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 11:18 PM UTC

trelane wrote: post #19

theyeenzbeanz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really wish the FTC would step in and do something

It's really weird that there's a giant, Microsoft-shape gap in the pattern of all the recent FTC enforcement actions.

Microsoft is the U.S. military industrial complex's IT support. All of it. They are effectively the U.S. governments tech branch.

Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser

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Post by bravetraveler » Sat, Mar 23, 2024, 1:26 PM UTC

J_Shelby_J wrote: post #22

themoonisachees wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did that. It's going great, the only time I've needed windows was for VR and playing The Finals when the anticheat wasn't compatible with proton. If your daily workflow only involves launching a web browser, or gaming, I heavily suggest switch thing to linux. It's really not that bad.

How do you do fellow finals player. How is performance in a VM? Also, I assume this wouldn’t work with games like valorant ‘s anticheat?

Performance can be excellent, with CPU pinning and a GPU passed through it's nearly native

Valorant is the one anti cheat I gave up on tricking. The rest like ESEA could be fooled by hiding the hyper-v extensions and so on with KVM

Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser

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Post by themoonisachees » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 2:09 PM UTC

J_Shelby_J wrote: post #22

themoonisachees wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did that. It's going great, the only time I've needed windows was for VR and playing The Finals when the anticheat wasn't compatible with proton. If your daily workflow only involves launching a web browser, or gaming, I heavily suggest switch thing to linux. It's really not that bad.

How do you do fellow finals player. How is performance in a VM? Also, I assume this wouldn’t work with games like valorant ‘s anticheat?

Easyanticheat is Linux compatible provided the developers have chosen to enable it. Embark has done so like a month after 1.0.

I don't expect VM performance would be too bad provided I went with the appropriate options, but thankfully I do not need to do that.