Quoting: BumadarBut I guess they rather pay MS a fee for the licence and hire some programmers for another custom app.

More likely, they actually *get paid* by microsoft to do this. In a company I worked for before, they literally did that for dx12 support.

So these hardware companies may not turn a profit from their device, it may not sell well. But if they get a bag of cash from microsoft before they even ship anything, they are very willing to do whatever they ask them to do, because then they have zero risk of losing money.

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Quoting: Marlock

Quotebut absolutely not a programmer

try Linux Mint

while I have done a couple things via terminal and developed a couple scripts for personal use, it was entirely optional to go that route for daily driving that distro over the several years i've been using it in my family's laptops, desktops and miniPCs

• there is a complete liveboot OS on the usb iso


• you'll feel right at home on a traditional desktop design


• it has a GUI for everything


• it works out-of-the-box almost anywhere


• it won't change it's entire looks on a whim


• just the right amount of hand-holding (which is there to guide, not force you)


• auto-updates are optional, unintrusive, light on resources, safe and usually don't even ask for an update (which is never going to force-reboot)
  

Agreed that it's absolutely not necessary to be a programmer. That said, the bigger problem is usually the change in _other_ software.

People who mostly just browse the internet on their computer have the easiest time to switch; the browser is the same *and* their computer doesn't break for no reason (updates, viruses etc).

But people who are used to some (typically windows-only) software find the switch disruptive. That's expected, you need to truly not care about them and be ready to use an alternative (which more commonly than they'd think are actually _better_ software), but most people have a hard time with that (change in general).

So obviously MuttMutt is entitled to not want to change, and while sharing your experience is fine, I hope this doesn't turn into a crusade to get them to switch.

Incidentally, this is also why it's *super* important to get *young people* to grow up with Linux instead of trying to make people change.

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Quoting: PyrateI wish there's better ways to run these statistics, as I know many people including myself either directly or indirectly use browser agent switchers. On Librewolf (what I use), everyone has a Windows user agent by default.

Maybe that's a good thing, if microsoft _thinks_ they are doing fine, they would continue whatever they are doing that is costing them their users :P

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Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: RomlokRemember folks: Don't buy games unless you're going to play them within the refund window.

Words to live by.

Yeap! Always at least get in the game, start the first level and if it runs fine by then, it's probably going to be fine later when you get to playing it.

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Played this with my wife a year ago, the first few biomes were really fun, up to and including the jungle. The sea biome was a drag, vast areas of nothingness (water) with little novel to discover in the islands. Forced through that, and the desert biome was much of the same, vast areas of nothingness (sand). We stopped playing at that point.

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Quoting: Highball

Quoting: ElectricPrismYou know how some people backup the header of encrypted disks:
 
sudo cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup /dev/<your-disk-luks> --header-backup-file luks2-header-backup-$(date -I)

If somebody wants a project make a interface equivalent to Etcher that optionally backs up the MBR + Linux / Windows boot partitions.

Then next time Windows fucks this up. ( Which they have been for decades and we haven't done anything about it. ) A person can load a Live USB, create a new backup in the broken state and run the Restore tool to revert the changes to before Microsoft screwed the pooch.

Who knows maybe what I'm imagining already exists, there's a lot of fine people out there who do amazing work all the time on our apps.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

Honestly I don't know how well it works. I haven't dual booted for close to twenty years and this tool didn't exist then as far as I know. At that time, all you had to do was live boot off a CD and chroot to your Linux partition, then rerun your boot loader install command, and it was all back to normal. It's a minor inconvenience for seasoned Linux users, but newbies immediately think Linux sucks and doesn't work. Obviously MSFT's intention. I don't remember a time that updating Windows didn't rewrite the MBR.

Yeap, it's still pretty much the same process. Live usb, chroot, reinstall grub.

I got rid of windows about 7 years ago, I'm much more relaxed now in my life.

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SD must be doing really well for Valve to be confident about doing this. Otherwise this would backfire if people noticed that not many people are playing on the deck.

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Quoting: Linux_Rocks

Quoting: Claude_LibI have Windows on a separate drive for rare occasions when I need it. The only clue two systems have about each other's existence is that Windows messes up the clock because I keep forgetting to set the RealTimeIsUniversal registry key.

I always just set Linux to use local time. One quick line in terminal is easier than a registry edit in Windows.

Local time is the wrong choice of course, like your files having mtime in the future when DST hits or if you take the train to the next city which happens to be in a different timezone.

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> The drivers for Windows also need a manual download for each

The emphasis makes it sound like this is anything out of the ordinary for windows, lol

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Quoting: tfkJust read some post on the Steam forums. They got drivers now but are still complaining.

It's a small difference in attitude I'm observing here.

We get native Linux support for something, we say thanks and start to give feedback on any issues we encounter.

They get Windows support for something, they're like "About time!". And when there are issues they're like "It won't work! You suck! I'm selling my device!".

I can see why Valve had this on low priority.

You might not like hearing this, but most projects that treat Linux users as second class citizens have the exact same complaint, that Linux users are entitled and don't appreciate what they got.

People are people, Linux users are no better or worse than any other people.

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