Wouldn't surprise me if you reboot your computer one day and surprise! It's windows 11 now!
Remember, they did the same thing with Windows 10 a couple of times.
Remember, they did the same thing with Windows 10 a couple of times.
From https://www.pcworld.com/article/3623008/windows-11-faq-featu... rather than the horses mouth but I expect it is correct.
I'm glad I'm on unsupported hardware.
I'd like to be able to play the games I want to without worrying about being frog-marched into an OS without a taskbar.
At this point I would settle for a deny-then-allow solution involving dropping any and every packet that's not from the servers of the small handful of online games I play, any well-known wikis that cover the games I play, or any relevant modding sites.
> I'd like to be able to play the games I want to without worrying about being frog-marched into an OS without a taskbar.
Lutris/Steam with Proton works wonderfully nowaday!
The main caveat is if you enjoy multiplayer gaming, it often require extensive low-level access to your Windows environment for anti-cheating purposes. Wintendo is the correct approach in that case; VFIO is an option, but afaik some anti-cheat systems will detect that they're running inside a VM.
Most security concerns go out of the window (pun not intended) when the most sensitive information your OS has access to is your Steam account, which has 2FA against a separate non-Windows device.