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Windows 11 is for video games and Excel, not running docker compose and servers. Windows Server is for running servers.

  Windows 11 is for video games

Not even that anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJEo6Kb6Rhg

Coverage is still partial because some VERY popular games do not run on Linux due to anti-cheat

I'd say that coverage is very, very substantial, but incomplete because some games use anti-cheat that is either extremely invasive and heavily relies on Windows internals, or is anti-cheat that the devs have configured to reject running in Proton.

Yes, it's very good. However, basically-every-current-multiplayer-shooter is a big missing category.

BTW as someone increasingly fed up with W11 and thus feeling homeless: how well does VR work?

> basically-every-current-multiplayer-shooter is a big missing category.

Weird. I've been playing many multiplayer shooters from Proton with my Windows-using friends. I suppose this is one of those "am I friends with people who pretty much only play CoD or Fortnite?" things.

Anything you'd want to play runs on Linux.

One that people keep commenting on is Battlefield 6, which has an absolutely perfect user experience in Linux.

If you play it on Windows it's a slow, buggy, crashy, half-finished mess that barely works is just no fun at all.

On Linux, it's perfect. It doesn't work at all, so you don't waste any time trying to enjoy the slow, buggy, crashy, half-finished mess.

Do you think gamers want any of that?

Except developers run docker compose locally all the time.

And even if I am just using Excel, my work still deserves to be respected by the operating system.

My clients didn't get the memo

Have they gotten the memo reminding them “schedule and execute your updates to avoid waking up to a login screen”? I feel sorry for you having to work with clients who run production workloads on Windows 11.

Linux is for running servers

If you’re some linux hardliner then that’s what your world looks like, sure. Windows Server is for running Windows servers.

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