Windows is done. The only thing that can save it is if they turn it into a spy machine that can do your laundry. Then users will happily give them the keys to their lives and underwear.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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SteamOS is about Valve not paying Microsoft a license fee. It's not some egalitarian move by them but a cost saving. From a game dev's perspective it's additional cost and effort to port a game, or hope it runs under emulation with Proton.
I am surprised they haven't used it for cloud gaming yet since that's where the real cost savings kick in but I bet they're still saving on each Steam Deck they sell without Windows on it.
It's not about killing windows… but if it were to have an accident, y'know… I'm just sayin'…
I was saying death to Windows.
I need Windows to die because I'm tired of having to use it just to get proper HDR and Nvidia support. Or at the very least, AMD GPUs need to get better.
I've finally banished Windows to a virtual machine, and am gearing up to fistfight Easy: ~~Anti-cheat~~ Rootkit AKA Fucking piece of shit that does precisely fuck-all to stop cheating despite having access to kernel space in order to get Sea of Thieves working on my virtual machine.
Lemme know if you figure out how to get that working
Update: It's now working.
Oh nice, congrats! Could you share info about it? That's been my biggest barrier to dropping Windows as a gamer with many games that I enjoy using root access anti cheats.
I followed a tutorial meant to bypass Easy: Anticheat for VRchat. I manually defined the hardware names and versions of some of my computer's components in KVM's XML code. It wasn't very difficult and only took about 30 minutes in total, setting up GPU passthrough was difficult though.
Thanks so much for the info!
Ouch, someone got roasted!
Big "if" these days
Shots fired!
What about Microsoft isn't a hollowed shell at this point? Maybe letting go of the gamers will let them find out a new way to make money.
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