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kstenerud ◴[] No.35323424[source]
I finally made the switch to Ubuntu Mate on Friday and WOW, color me impressed!

The only reason I stuck with Windows on my desktop machine for so long was gaming, and the last time I tried switching over was 10 years ago. Spoiler: it was a shitshow.

This time, things are MUCH better! The Mate desktop environment is simple, stable, clean, does the job and gets out of your way (kinda reminds me of Windows 2000). Steam's Proton makes running games a breeze. All of my favorites just work. I could even run battle.net as a non-steam game, USING Steam's Proton!

And the kicker? Blizzard's recently opened beta of Diablo 4 just worked. As in, I clicked install, clicked play, and it just worked. Perfectly. As if I were still running under Windows. I've never before seen such sorcery.

So bye bye Windows, except when I'm running one as a VM.

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1. M95D ◴[] No.35325008[source]
So, people complain about Windows spyware and antifeatures, then they install Ubuntu and Steam client. What did that solve? Move your profiling data to someone else?
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2. jabroni_salad ◴[] No.35331131[source]
Steam wants to sell me video games that are similar to other video games I like and keep me on top of new releases. recommendations based on purchase history are kinda okay in my opinion.

Microsoft wants to sell me the british royalty and reasons why millions of people are excited about german hearing aids. I don't really get this at all. What is their snoopware even good for if this is the best they can come up with?