this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
568 points (98.1% liked)

Technology

60147 readers
3026 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
568
Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time (www.techradar.com)
submitted 1 month ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology
140 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
  • 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
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We shit on it because you need a crack to make it work properly in the first place.

I don't use linux for my desktop either though because my computer is a tool, not a hobby.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Don't you want the best tool for the job?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yup, that's why I got a Mac. It works perfectly out of the box, no rugged edges apps, no drivers/hw concerns, excellent battery time. Best UNIX laptop for the time being.

I give you as main flaws the cost and the irreparability of the hardware and maybe missing out on a few games but that is probably a tie with Linux, since it runs the same emulators/transcoder if needed.

[–] Womble 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

maybe missing out on a few games but that is probably a tie with Linux

As some one who runs both: no, not even close. Mac has more direct ports than Linux true, but proton vastly outweighs that. I have dozens of games that show up on steam on my mac as unplayable where as I dont have any that wont run under proton.

Five years ago you'd probably have been right, but Linux is far superior to OSX for gaming now.

(E: assuming you're talking about an apple silicon macbook, IDK the status of proton on x86 macs maybe it works there?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'll give you that as I honestly don't care much about games so I don't know much. I've read somewhere that apple has a game porting toolkit similar to proton and whisky was good enough the one time I wanted to launch a windows one but I don't know if it's any good.