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Seriously you can’t have windows without having teams now?

I have a feeling when I finish rebuilding my gaming PC I’m not going to be a fan of using windows again…

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I have been using windows exclusively for 20 years now but just made the switch to Linux (EndeavourOS - an arch distro) 1 week ago and I couldn’t be happier!

99% of all applications that I use work just as well (including games) and for the very very few that won’t work (like Valorant) I am using a dual boot setup. The reason that I made the switch was that I got anxious with W10 EOL approaching since I would rather stop using windows altogether than using W11.

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4 points

You will be really thankful for learning Linux in the future, the way big tech is going now.

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1 point

It can be uninstalled.

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When can I get an iPhone without iMessage being preinstalled? Microsoft is, if anything, late to the party on this kind of anti-user BS.

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8 points

Or any of the i shit on there. And can you still not even change the default app for some things?

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Last I checked, opening links in iOS with alternate browsers is very app-specific and requires a hack using a different protocol. E.g. Chrome registers itself as a handler for the “httpChrome” protocol and the app needs to do Open("httpChrome://lemmy.ml"). It’s far worse than anything Microsoft did with IE back when they got sued.

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iPhone without iMessage being preinstalled?

Someone wants a choice, yet chooses platform that does not provide a choice? Wondering if there is any other platform that allows you to customize your phone. Hmmm. 🤔🤔🤔

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Hooooooold on, let me be crystal clear: I’m never buying an iPhone.

The point was that if the EU is going to go on an anti-bundling campaign, there’s a long line ahead of MS Teams of more egregious behavior.

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> Microsoft is, if anything, late to the party on this kind of anti-user BS.

…do you not know about the IE lawsuits?

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I personally do a ton of game streaming to my Steam Deck which is my main driver for using Windows as it works better with NVIDIA Shield + Moonlight, but I highly recommend you give Pop!OS a try. I’m very pro-linux, but for the longest time it just wasn’t there for gaming and I didn’t recommend it. With Valve going full steam ahead for the Steam Deck, Proton has gotten so good that for 95% of games things just work out of the box without any issue. Wine even has support for Easy Anti Cheat now and more features are coming every week.

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Seriously you can’t have windows without having teams now?

you can just uninstall it

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Or install some alternative OS that don’t have bloatware & ads out of the box!

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5 points

Wow they were right, you really did tell us you use Linux without us asking!

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Until they decide you can’t.

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A lot of us use Linux for gaming now. Supports almost all games. But for God’s sake, pick a amd graphics card if you plan to do Linux gaming. Nvidia is buggy as hell.

https://www.protondb.com/explore

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Ugh. I’ve been wanting to switch for a while but that’s a bummer to hear. I might just have to bite the bullet and deal with buggy drivers. Back when I got my monitors like 6 years ago there wasn’t a ton of options for sub-5ms IPS displays with adaptive sync technology so I had to go with Acer Predators and G-Sync but now I’m kinda stuck with NVIDIA. I’m sure there’s more options for monitors now but I’m not dropping that kind of money on monitors again.

Unless something has changed? Is GSync still proprietary? (Edit: looks like G-Sync does work on AMD cards now but only for newer monitors, dang.)

Ironically, I remember not long ago it was AMD that used to have the crap Linux drivers.

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All you really have to do is make sure the distribution of Linux you’re installing supports Nvidia out of the box. Their drivers are not that bad anymore, they used to be much worse.

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My steam deck has been a god send! I am definitely looking forward to using Linux or trying it when I get to rebuilding my PC.

My biggest hope is that by the time I rebuild anti cheat for games like destiny 2 will work…

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Ugh. I’ve been wanting to switch for a while but that’s a bummer to hear. I might just have to bite the bullet and deal with buggy drivers. Back when I got my monitors like 5 years ago there wasn’t a ton of options for sub-ms IPS displays with sync technology so I had to go with Acer Predators and GSync but now I’m kinda stuck with NVIDIA. I’m sure there’s alternatives now but I’m not dropping that kind of money on monitors again.

Ironically, I remember not long ago it was AMD that used to have the crap Linux drivers.

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