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Blackmist ,

Surely it’s opt in anyway, seeing as you need some special wanky laptop with a magical AI bollocks chip for it to work.

Sabata11792 ,

“We won’t turn it on and will never use it to spy on you” says government backed surveillance monopoly know for sneaking spyware into products and making it impossible to remove.

NutWrench ,
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How do you “fix” the security issues of a program that is literally designed to spy on you?

I’ve just switched to Linux Mint and I’m not ever coming back. That’s how I “fixed it.”

SomeGuy69 ,

Opt-in but you get an annoying full screen popup every boot, like for the windows11 upgrade. It’s only a matter of time, til they sell AI recall features as Win12 and then beg you to upgrade for free, pretty please!

Treczoks ,

Or “(totally unrelated feature) is not available unless you activate AI recall. Click here to activate.”

Prandom_returns ,

“Click cancel if you do not want to not activate it”

dumblederp ,

Trust is difficult to earn and easy to lose.

Valmond ,

When did they earn it last time?

XP was made stable to counter Linux, it wasn’t something like trying to earn trust IMO.

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    Valmond ,

    How did that earn them trust?? Making something that works?

    Ascend910 ,

    “Make it opt-in” (for 6 months) At this point, Microsoft is the biggest advisement for Linux desktop

    Snapz ,

    They’ll always play right on or just over the line to see when/how people push back. They knew what they were doing, they started at a 9 intentionally so that people push back to and live with a 7

    kellenoffdagrid ,
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    MS really has always done this, what’s the name for this kind of marketing maneuver? Manufactured consent? Manufactured begrudging tolerance?

    whataloadofwhat ,

    Door in the face

    en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Door-in-the-face_technique

    Valmond ,

    Like politics, were adding 200% to this inconvenience!

    Then rolling back to “only” 50% (the initial target).

    thelasttoot ,

    I mean… Yeah? That’s kind of the point isn’t it? Test the waters and figure out just how far they can push it? Find the limit of acceptance and ride that?

    Sam_Bass ,

    Rather than not install it to begin with. Leeches

    bokherif ,

    It feels like these huge ass companies are just testing people’s reactions before they do something these days.

    archchan ,

    Pretty sure they already said it would be opt-in. This is just planned damage control. The fools have already shown their hand. Again.

    drivepiler ,

    I heard it was opt-out originally, but I haven’t looked into it tbh

    Starkstruck ,

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    hamid ,

    So yeah, I do have memory problems and I’m being over loaded at my job that requires precision and accuracy, this would really help me, I don’t trust Microsoft to do it right but seriously fuck your attitude, yeah some people need help.

    SpaceCowboy ,
    @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

    Oh… Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft.

    A friend of mine tried one of their “special offers” he nearly got himself lobotomized!

    JigglySackles ,

    Too little too late, I’m not getting any more versions of windows.

    werefreeatlast ,

    So it will use AI to auto detect penises to prevent embarrassing video recordings.

    FilthyCheese ,

    Time to get a wiggly, wobbly dick cursors.

    MidnightBanjo ,

    I feel like not wanting to do the work for certain Steam games is what keeps me on windows for my personal use (work makes the decision on my work machine).

    I know it’s possible, I just don’t want to do the work

    toynbee ,

    No judgement for your choices, but just so you know, it’s basically no work for the majority of games.

    univers3man ,

    With the exception of any major games that have anti-cheat. I miss League of Legends.

    toynbee ,

    Yeah, anti-cheat and the Ubisoft launcher have been the only consistent obstacles. protondb.com is a fantastic resource, though.

    I’m not a fan of LoL, so I can’t say from personal experience, but it looks like PlayOnLinux claims to support it. Hope you find your joy!

    drislands ,

    I wouldn’t say “any” major games. Helldivers 2 is a notable exception.

    toynbee ,

    I’ve played Helldivers 2 with no obstacles and no additional setup.

    drislands ,

    That’s what I’m saying. It has anticheat, and it runs on Linux without issue.

    toynbee ,

    Ah, I apologize. I definitely was not fully awake when I read your original comment.

    drislands ,

    No worries, I may have just been unclear considering multiple people appear to have downvoted my comment.

    MidnightBanjo ,

    Good to know. I know wine can get steam going (assuming you don’t just use the Linux version). How do you get steam to download and install the game if it says it’s the wrong operating system? Sorry if that’s a dumb question

    toynbee ,

    Your question isn’t dumb. You just haven’t been exposed to the environment. Please feel free to ask any question about this you have and, if I don’t answer, someone else probably will.

    If you install the Linux version of Steam, it should allow you to download any game. There’s a checkbox in the Steam settings that says something like “run non compatible games through proton” (not what it says, but the general sentiment). Checking that and restarting Steam once is the extent of the setup required; after that, it’s essentially the same process as running a game in Windows (with the few exceptions mentioned by another commenter). Non Steam games should be able to be run by Lutris, PlayOnLinux or adding a non Steam game to Steam, but I mostly haven’t done that myself so I can’t vouch for it. Sincerely, for most games, it’s an easy process.

    I’m no expert, but if you decide to pursue this and get stuck, please feel free to reach out to me and I’ll do my best to help. The link below seems like a good starting point: geekflare.com/install-steam-on-linux/

    MidnightBanjo ,

    Thanks, I appreciate the advice and kind attitude. I’ll check it out

    sfxrlz ,

    How is it for racing sims ? Last time I checked it didn’t look too good in terms of wheel drivers and games running ootb on Linux, or did I just not look in the right places?

    toynbee , (edited )

    I’m sorry, as much as I’d love to, I don’t have an answer to this.

    edit: corrected a word.

    sfxrlz ,

    No worries, I had already given up on it for now I was just curious if someone could convince me to fully switch, or rather point me towards some open source projects I could use. Right now I boot into win11 for gaming and into fedora for everything else. Thanks anyway!

    patatahooligan ,
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    Go to protondb.com and search for the games you’re interested in. If your profile is public, I think you can import your entire library and browse through it instead of manually searching for each individual game. Ideally you want “platinum” compatibility but I’ve personally never had problems with “gold” games either.

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