The answer is always DRM and monetization. If you didn’t have enough reasons to not buy products with locked down software, here’s even more reasons.

Good point, I should have mentioned that. Although I think it would be reasonable to say that paying a subscription for security updates would be a non-starter for almost all of the home users.

My decision was to install Linux Mint first on my work laptop and not my main gaming rig, so I would have the ability to switch between both OS’s as needed, and have a fallback machine if either failed.

ProtonDB (Compatibility Database) should be your friend in checking what works and what doesn’t, and for the most part, Windows games “just work”, no need to even toggle a setting (unless you count forcing Proton instead of a native Linux port).

If you have software that is critical to your daily life on windows (Photoshop, Autodesk, VR software, anti-cheat heavy games), you dont need to jump ship on your main hardware. There are ways to get support after October 15th (Through IOT LTSC versions of windows 10, but you’ll have to find a way to get it).

All of your other use cases would be perfectly served by any Linux distro, the Interstellar Lemmy client even has a convenient flatpack for a 1-click install.

Check ProtonDB first (you can even log in to view all your library at once). If everything you would want to play works, go for it! If not everything works currently, I’d recommend getting your hands on IOT LTSC win10, and use a spare device to get familiar with Linux distros.

There’s no one “gaming” Linux distro that will work, but I personally just use Linux Mint because it is ol’ reliable for me - intuitive enough GUI, but just as configurable as anything else. You do miss out on some of the more bleeding edge stuff that distros such as Arch and Bazzite get, but unless you are using very new hardware, I’m not sure if it would be necessary.

The more who are aware, the more who will care. And hey, not like typing an honest answer hurt anyone here.

You are excited for October 15th because less people will be trumpeting Linux migrations.

I am excited for October 15th for the avalanche of cheap liquidated hardware flooding eBay.

We are not the same

You’re welcome! Always glad to help ppl with these kinds of questions!

No updates for consumer versions of Win10. Including security ones. If on October 15th a zero-day exploit is out in the wild, Microsoft would not be obligated to patch it. They may regardless (see WannaCry Malware patch for Windows XP), but it will not be ongoing, and probably not all-encompassing.

The longer you use the machine on win10 after October, the more exposed you are to any exploit found in the existing windows 10 version.

What this post is trying to present is that Linux distributions almost never run into these issues - especially when it comes to running on legacy hardware. If you install Linux Mint today, you’ll still be able to update it in october and beyond, for the foreseeable future.

Edit: There will be a subscription option to receive extended security patches from MS for Windows10, but it will not be free, and the price will rise as time passes (similar to win7).

Thats usually a consequence of fiduciary responsibility, no? If you’re not publicly traded, you have no such chains. Valve is privately held, and therefore untouchable in that regard. They also release their software to the public pretty often (OpenXR for VR, indirectly contributing to the Wine project via Proton, and now TF2 with a non-commercial license).

Unless the next head of the company makes an IPO, the path seems steady. And even if the IPO occurs, the momentum is already kickstarted, and we have access to the fruits of their labor (funded by our game purchases).

Wouldn’t the ease of access for music piracy in comparison to video piracy be the true barrier keeping them in check? Audio doesn’t exactly have massive file sizes, and the ability to rip audio from any source has become more accessible than ever.

I wonder when streaming services may have their “Napster moment”.

“Device battery life is like air conditioning. It becomes useless once you open Windows.”

• somebody

I don’t think that’s competition, more IP holder rent-seeking.

And modders

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

(I am trying to set up an mail system on my server using modems and am suffering help)

Airbenders?

Run it through the internet archive/web archive

Fair enough, then a more apt statement would be a permissive non-commercial license with media assets injected from the base game (alla GMOD)

Well boy howdy do I have news for you lol.

Tf2 is open source now - just with non-commercial strings.

Yep, and I’d argue thats one of the most fruitful things to come out of MS’s blunders. It incentivized the other stakeholders to get win32/64 compatibility efforts into high gear for linux, and I couldn’t be happier with what we ended up with today (on the linux side ofc)

Edit: Also, I mentioned the MS store and UWP because that was the reason behind that infamous quote - the team wanted to motivate developers to get on board with the platform, and announcing 10 as the last version of Windows was part of that campaign.

Yeah, if the MS store and UWP apps worked out for Microsoft (they didn’t lol).

Now win11 is “okay, now this really will be last version of windows, because you can’t refuse installing our crap.”

Correct.

Steam Trust factor is likely now part of TF2, similar to CS2. Following that logic, if your account is filtered as “human account”, you probably can chat freely.