I just upgraded my hardware and when booting Windows back up, I got the error that basically says "Your license no longer works, you need to buy a new one". I'm happy to say that I'll be using Bazzite as my main driver for now on. It's honestly been great and works great if you use Steam alot.
On the one hand, you can usually contract MS support and tell them you just upgraded your hardware and they can re-enable your key. That thing was meant to stop people from sharing keys and limit how many PCs they have running that key at once, not to force a new key for upgrades. Assuming they still even do that, as it's been a while since I needed to.
But on the other hand, it sounds like you already found an even better solution.
Disabling automatic updates should be a no-brainer. Really.
I bought a pro license for win10 specifically because I learned that it gave better control over updates via group policy.
Now I use Fedora, which implemented updates in a way that doesn't imply "ok, this is all I'm doing until it finishes", and it never interrupts what I'm doing.
if only there was a much better operating system for gaming
use linux
Is Linux gaming only workable if you have an AMD GPU? I was bummed to hear its not viable with a NVIDIA card
Edit: I'm referring to this recent Gamers Nexus video where they tested Bazzite. My SO says that the 1% lows are a deal breaker? I'm not very savvy with the specifics. I really wanted to install Bazzite but SO told me that its not viable yet.
I'm now 4 laptops deep in installing Bazzite. Tldr: anything with Nvidia open drivers will work r/n. In practice, anything above a 1060 is supported no issues.
Anything below and you'll have an issue with the display engine Wayland. You can make the old drivers work but only under X11. Gaming on an old silly laptop with GeForce Nvm 5200 is totally doable. Will run unreal engine games like Bioshock or portal. But requires manually setting everything up in Arch.
Most NVidia cards work well. Nobody will recommend them because NVidia is known to pull the rug out of your perfectly working card all the time, and being completely aggressive against people trying to make the cards work without by their own.
I have a 3090 ti without any issues
I have a 2080 and an Intel CPU – Linux Mint worked perfectly out of the box.
it works like a charm with my rtx2060 and the new rtx2080
there's several distros with a focus on gaming like steamos and bazzite. I personally use cachyos as it worked right out of the box without installing any drivers.
I don't know if this is the right time to mention that the end result of the "sneak attack" in that clip was a hug and a cute moment between friends... Which .. I don't think was the vibe you were trying to get me to imagine.
Damn, I really thought he ended up attacking the other guy
He's lying, Jason Momoa killed and ate Henry Cavil as is the custom
How could Aquaman do this
Homelander said it would be funny. And that he would kill him if he didn't.
Man, The Boys was great those first few seasons
Loving pop!_os for gaming
CachyOS has been absolutely fantastic for me. As a quick example: I just installed Minecraft Java edition with the Prism Launcher. It's in the CachyOS repo, so it was 1 step to install Prism Launcher. Even easier than Windows—I didn't even need to search for a download page. Come to think of it, I'll also get automatic updates whenever I do a 1-step full system upgrade, so it's going to be 0 maintenance.
The year of Linux has arrived. I used to make fun of all the Linux evangelists, but they're right this time. Linux offers a better experience than Windows, for most common use cases.
I'm easily in the phase where I'm dropping $20+ on games without even thinking to look what their status is on ProtonDB. Windows is still around for some back-compat stuff and old projects I'm finishing, but I'm good where I am.
That said, on Cachy, does anyone have recommendations for a Calendar app that works with MS? I've tried a few, and a number of them don't work on Cachy.
I recently switched from Windows to Linux and decided on Linux Mint and I've had no problems so far, has pop!_os a lot of benefits over Mint for gaming? But I'm also not exclusively using my Pc for gaming, which is why I chose a disto that seems to be more versatile(?) idk still very new to Linux
Mint was the other option I was going to go with. I didn't do a ton of deep diving, I tried pop first, it worked great, I didn't look further.
They're all pretty much the same. If you find a distribution that works with your hardware, it will perform the same as the next one.
The few differences will matter (or not) once you're experienced with the system.
In short, don't worry about it.
Lol skill issue. I use Bazzite BTW.
Install stepmania and tell me how, I'm suffering.
Can't tell if serious. But there are like... Uh... Instructions on how to install Stepmania. Works for Linux. https://github.com/stepmania/stepmania
/ed: lol you can compile from source! Gentoo Penguin.ico
Yeah I tried a bunch of stuff and kept hitting walls. Cmake doesn't work on bazzite or my mint on distrobox. Apt-get install on mint checked some dependencies but didn't install anything. Think I tried pulling source files from git but something went wrong there too. Tried stable and beta branch as well. I kept notes on my efforts I can check later for more accurate info.
Use an Arch distrobox and install from the AUR.
Arch box endlessly (30+ mins) loading apps for export so I can't even open AUR, but I noticed stepmania pop up in bazaar so... One click install basically. Finding the folder to drop songs in was a small hassle and themes and announcers aren't showing up, but the game runs and songs show up so I'm content for now. Gonna see if the dance mat works tomorrow.
Thanks will try that.
Bazzite's been working pretty good for me. Was honestly easier to set up too, and fights me less, and runs smoother, and also doesn't spy on me.
How about BIOS update?
EAC games were literally unplayable on my machine without updating my BIOS.
The Windows Updatinator!!! This will cause every Windows computer in the tri state area to restart five times over the next hour while constantly telling the user it’s almost done with updates!
[installs Linux]
Curse you Perry the Platypus!!!!!
because they don't give a fuck about you
can't wait to move to a new system
I've been on Debian for years now. I'll update when I'm done gaming.
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