>>to stop making Windows 11 full STOP

W11 is utter trash (as I type this from W11 PC and when I mouse over to the left, it pulls up ads ... how can I block this at my router? anyone know the domains it pulls from. I need a blacklist of all MS ad domains.

Also, here was something that just happened this morning ;; I opened my machine, and I clicked on the firefox menu icon, and it fucking opened microsoft EDGE. It HIJACKED the firefox icon.

I had to reboot... and it added a fucking "search bing" thing to my menu bar... WHAT THE FUCK. I didnt set this up.

Why is W11 making ANY changes to my machine autonomously????????

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lol no, i don't use windows they can milk it as much as they want

I think anti-trust has been narrowed so much we've lost sight of the goal. The point of this stuff is because capitalism and democracy kind of break down when a single private entity becomes too powerful. If "anti-trust" can't apply to globe-spanning behemoths crushing all their competitors then it's a dumb thing and we should start doing something better

Xbox has a digital marketplace on which game developers (sometimes a dreaded publisher) sell games and Microsoft gets a cut of the deal. Microsoft makes money because a game is sold on the Xbox digital marketplace. Microsoft has no (popular) equivalent to Steam, GoG, Epic Games Store, etc., and as such have no (popular) way of monetizing PC games sales.

(As in, we're still talking about a games market and not an OS market. OP doesn't have to rethink their claim that MS is "non-existent on pc" because they practically are.)

My gaming PC doesn't have a Windows license because I like Microsoft or Windows.

Written on my Mac Studio.

Your mostly correct - but it's wrong to say 'non-existent' on PC due to how successful PC Game Pass is

Isnt gaming a big draw to buying Windows in the first place?

ProtonDB rates 28% of the top 1000 games as platinum ("runs perfectly out of the box"). The rest either need some tweaks, have some issues, or just don't work. My assumption is that most gamers don't care too much tweak with their games, so I wouldn't put that much weight on the gold category. And when it comes to silver and below, that can be pretty nasty.

And when looking at the top 20 most played games on Steam, there's some pretty big titles missing. PUBG (5th most played) is borked, CoD MWII (6th) is borked, Destiny 2 (9th) is borked, Rainbow Six Siege (10th) is borked, FIFA 23 (11th) is borked, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT (13th) is silver, Rust (14th) is bronze and Dead by Daylight (20th) is bronze. So when it comes to "most players", there's definitely a lot of gaps too.

I have a Steam Deck and I can have pretty good gaming experiences on it. Surprisingly even. But it's definitely not perfect, and one of the reasons why I can feel pretty confident in owning a Steam Deck is that I still have a Windows-based gaming PC that I can fall back on.

So the only online games you can play on Linux are full of blatant cheaters?