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Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time (www.techradar.com)
submitted 3 days ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology
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  • A new patch is being quietly pushed to Windows 10 (and 11) PCs
  • It’ll force upgrades in certain circumstances to keep the PC in support
  • This update will mean more nag prompts coming to your PC
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[–] timewarp 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, you buy a gaming PC with Windows and you insert a USB stick and install Linux. Otherwise, you'll be paying a high premium for a company that does basically the same thing. Things to look out for are try to find a PC with Intel networking and bluetooth adapters. Realtek is relatively well supported, but has been known to have issues.

[–] dustyData 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If gaming is top priority. Go all amd, disregard Nvidia. AMD has extraordinary linux support and if it runs on the steam deck it will run on any all AMD machine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

if your work involving CUDA then nvidia is the only option.

[–] BassTurd 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

True, but Nvidia has come a long way and I believe announced support in the recent months, but don't quote me on the last part. I have a desk and laptop both with Nvidia GPUs, and I don't have any issues. Wayland did not work until 4-6 months ago, but everything is pretty stable now.

[–] dustyData 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My biggest fear is that so far Nvidia has a track record of introducing regressions and new bugs with each new driver version. Just a week ago all my flatpaks weren't working on Wayland, again. It happens almost with every single update. Some games that are native or platinum randomly stop working and it takes several updates before they start working again. While on AMD everything just works all the time and regressions are solved in a day not weeks. It's just annoying.

[–] BassTurd 1 points 3 days ago

That's fair. My next build will be AMD. I only switched to Linux the past December, and I already had my gear, so it is what it is for now. Further, my case is too small for new GPUs, so I'm riding my 2080ti to the end.