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203 points binwiederhier | 10 comments | 28 Aug 25 09:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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ahartmetz ◴[28 Aug 25 11:06 UTC] No.45050719[source]▶
Install "Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC" if you don't mind buying grey market keys. Less crapware, more mature and less enshittified than 11, and security fixes until 2032.

I don't want to endorse Windows at all (use Linux if you can!). But maybe you need it to occasionally test something or whatever.

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1. 4ggr0 ◴[28 Aug 25 11:48 UTC] No.45051004[source]▶
Even though I professionally work with Linux I still don't trust it enough for gaming. I know that Steam does great things with Proton, my issue is that I'm not the type of gamer who constantly plays the same game - Play a game for how long the story or my interests lasts, then switch to the next game.

And after a whole day of debugging and hair pulling at work I just don't feel like then also debugging why a game is not running like it should.

But I heard I should give it a try again, last time I gave it a shot was 2-3 years ago. Big plus would be that I'd be completely free of Windows...

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2. johanvts ◴[28 Aug 25 12:01 UTC] No.45051100[source]▶
Did you try bazzite OS, the only issue I have had was to select the proton build of CS, everything else works out of the box. Except for games that need anti-cheat… So I still ended up with a windows partition.
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3. 42lux ◴[28 Aug 25 12:45 UTC] No.45051495[source]▶
I guess he wants to use his general computing device as a general computing device and not as a console.
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4. pjerem ◴[28 Aug 25 13:32 UTC] No.45051945[source]▶
FWIW : I own 262 games on my steam library, played most of them at least once. I had no issue with any single game.

I don't play multiplayer games so I'm not concerned by anti cheats though.

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5. plipt ◴[28 Aug 25 14:02 UTC] No.45052295{3}[source]▶
Maybe you know this but Bazzite works perfectly well as a standard Linux desktop operating system. It comes with a non-gaming desktop environment and can be setup to boot directly into that desktop environment. It just defaults to the steam gaming interface.
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6. 42lux ◴[28 Aug 25 14:14 UTC] No.45052431{4}[source]▶
It's an immutable distribution...
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7. ThePowerOfFuet ◴[29 Aug 25 02:59 UTC] No.45059652{5}[source]▶
So? Kinoite is my main desktop and I love it. KDE is creating a new Arch-based distro which will also be immutable.
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8. bpye ◴[29 Aug 25 03:14 UTC] No.45059742[source]▶
I’ve run games on Linux with success but these days do most gaming in a Windows VM with an assigned GPU - and it works very well.

Yeah aggressive anticheat won’t work - but I don’t care much about multiplayer these days, and have consoles to play on if I really want.

9. 42lux ◴[29 Aug 25 06:42 UTC] No.45060955{6}[source]▶
>> Maybe you know this but Bazzite works perfectly well as a standard Linux desktop operating system.

STANDARD - it's not and I hate people that pretend that they are. It's that easy.

10. 4ggr0 ◴[03 Sep 25 09:08 UTC] No.45113701[source]▶
huh, good to know. i got a bit less games than you, but 200+ as well, and i also never really play MP, so sounds like i should give it a try :)