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There's that Microsoft UX we know and love!
"Linux is too hard for people"
Modifying Windows is something I've been doing for decades. Yes it is infinitely easier than learning a new OS.
YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
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Woah so Riot broke League on Linux? I guess they probably did the math but that seems like a bold move.
Why would it be a "bold move"? Linux gaming population is damn near zero, they do not provide a higher profit margin like mac gamers would, and the documented evidence is that supporting Linux users is obnoxious because they are rude and entitled but not actually that much better at providing feedback. Epic Games bought out rocket league and turned off a native linux build and faced no repercussions. Instead they mad…
It's bold because it's breaking stuff that already works and will continue to work even if you do nothing.
It's one thing to choose not to develop a new game for Linux. It's another to take a game that already runs on Linux and intentionally break it. You're guaranteed to alienate SOME people who are already fans of the game.
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Not sure that's fair, given most Linux gamers look like Windows gamers to the metrics. That said, devices like the SteamDeck run games on Linux (and that's without considering that every Android game ever is technically running on Linux too). Let's face it though, PC gaming is already small enough these vs the consoles, that further splitting the marked isn't going to make sense for a lot of companies.
>Not sure that's fair, given most Linux gamers look like Windows gamers to the metrics. No. All the articles and testimony of game devs abandoning native Linux versions is from well before Proton was a thing, including Epic Games buying Rocket League and preventing you from playing the Native Linux build they had. It also was not related to anti-cheat or underlying engine limitations or anything. Developers were clea…
Personally I don't think gamers are entitled. Ultimately games are anywhere between 60 - 120 dollars and often barely work on their target platforms. With kernel level anticheat, you're literally being asked to pay them to rootkit your computer with software you cannot audit.
The last 10 years of AAA gaming have been an absolute shit show. The only people who seem to be even trying are Nintendo. Everyone else releases stuff that's buggy as hell and about as fun as a dental cleaning.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
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People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux. But they don't similarly complain about these ultra obscure, ugly commands. When Microsoft necessitates commands, somehow it's different.
> People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux They do? How else does one use Linux if not via CLI? You mean those kiddies that like GNOME/KDE? pfffft, they're not "using" Linux. They're just using Linux to run other apps no different than using a ChromeBook
hmmm, news to me.
i thought i used Linux all these years, but i guess i dont.
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Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#426For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net use…
> Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.
> Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter.
Why do we have to delete them?
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It's telling that most of the responses to this question center around why the YouTube video creator would want to make a video instead of a simple text description, not what the OP asked: why the user would want to intake the information by way of video. Says a lot about what is broken, incentive-wise, about the modern Internet.
I think it says more about most people not wanting to bother to read. Modern social media has only succeeded by moving away from text, and meeting the masses where they already are. They mostly don't want to read.
Definitely there has been a shift towards video content.
But I think there is a discoverability dynamic at play as well. Finding a blog post that isn’t garbage can be harder than finding a decent video on any given topic. This is clearly a feedback loop towards video but I think partly this is because up until now you couldn’t just create a spam video channel with the same ease that you could a spam blog.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
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The videos being taken down here are about how to avoid: Windows requiring a Microsoft account to install, and Windows only being installable on compatable hardware. AFAIK an apple account isn't strictly required, but a lot of MacOS won't be functional without one. How is a Macbook better than Windows in these senses?
You can use mac, ipad and iphone without apple account at all. You can use app store without logging to icloud. You can install apps without app store. There is no nagging to use icloud after initial setup. There is no spyware and adware integrated into standard apps or OS itself. Apple does not sell user data.
>You can use app store without logging to icloud.
You can't download anything from the App Store without signing into it. For that, an Apple ID is required.
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What is the singular goal of doing all that? Avoid online-only accounts?
I have a microsoft account. I made it for Windows Live to play Halo 2 for Windows Vista back in the day. Except, then Microsoft adjusted their account infrastructure, and now it's also an Xbox Live account. Then it became also a Windows Messenger account. Then it was required to login to Visual Studio. Then it ate my perfectly working Mojang account. Now I need it to install stuff from the Windows store like the damn…
Note: A Microsoft account isn’t required to download free apps from the Store, it works fully without extra prompts on a local account. (I like that it works this way, because it means you can install Firefox on a fresh install of Windows without even once opening Edge.)