You forgot forced microsoft account.

One day I will swap to Linux!! One day!!!

Cmon man. Join the right side!

what are you waiting for?

And "Age verification"

And "Telemetry"

It's really easy. Linux Mint. Bootable USB. Back up your important files on a separate harddrive. Plug in USB. Reboot. Install. Port old files over. Good as new

Bonus points for looking into how to optimize your partition structure, but it'd be fine to just let it do its thing. Also like... I guess you should probably make sure your audio and video cards are supported, but they like 98% are

I am very pro Linux and have been trying to migrate all my system but I got to say:

I installed windows 11 LTSC and disabled automatic updates, it’s not good but it’s also not this bad.

If your wondering why, pirating games isn’t very seamless on Linux yet,

That day is closer than ever.

Why would we pirate games when we have SuperTuxKart?

Fake news

Personally for me, i no long find pirating worth the time to set things up. The only recent good titles are mostly indi, and they are quite cheap. You can also find ultra cheap offers on not-so-old 3A titles. Also, my backlog is already 6-7 times longer of the rest of my remaining lifespan, so i have quite a bit to chose from.

Yep. Imagine that, using the specialist version of the OS strips out a lot of the bullshit.

I'll never argue that the suck inherent to Windows is OK, but anyone who thinks it's somehow completely unavoidable just isn't trying. It's always kind of shocking to see Linux users, who are at least on paper tech savvy, have complaints that include shit that can be disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu. Meanwhile they'll act like some of the arcane hoops needed to fix shit like sleep mode, hdr, or audio on some combinations of hardware and distro is just par for the course.

Personally, I find the better approach to convert folks isn't to create an insane caricature of the issues with Windows, but to go "here's the list of all the stuff you need to do to fix Windows, or you can sidestep it entirely with Linux but risk occasional strange hardware compatibility problems"

These are tools, not religion.

If you don't take 30 seconds to look up the bypass on install. If you're capable of switching to Linux it's hardly forced in any way that matters.

Three of those are the same thing (AI features) and all are easily handled through group policy.

You are using a version the has group policy right? Spoofing a Pro license with MAS Grave takes roughly 2 minutes from opening the website to finished, on a slow connection.

It's even easier if you don't set up a Microsoft Account during install of the OS. You did take the 30 seconds to look up the current bypass when you started, right?

It's even easier than that if you just don't use Microsoft Office. Open source office suites work fine on Windows.

Of course, Linux is the easiest way.

Repeat the meme, but with windows users looking at peripheral driver failures

1. buy a hard drive
2. install on hard drive
3. now you're done

The pirates I know personally all have dedicated PCs to gaming. So none of them care about any files being stolen, or things like that. That’s not many people, so I cannot say it’s some good statistics. But I believe it’s true for many. If I’d pirate games (I’m not a gamer, and I see no point in not buying, if I’m going to play just one game casually), I’d do the same. Since my work PC is plenty powerful, I’d rather use it, but switch disks to not allow Windows to see it. (However, they are encrypted anyway.)

On the other hand, if the games would work on Linux, I’d rather go this isolation way. Sounds just many times easier to me.

Many pirates do piracy for the lack of money (hence why many end up buying the game when they get money) so this is def an exception of the exception

I mean, those people I know, they are not computer people. So, for them, having a computer is to play games. If they are pressed with money, they’d rather buy a better GPU than games. It’s not like these people are having multiple computers, keeping one to just play games.

Sure, I agree, when the money isn’t an issue, why won’t you just buy the game?

I do feel sorry for them, but they can only lift themselves up. I can't really do anything to help. Linux has never been easier to set up than today. But it will always be a bit of a hurdle to make the switch.

I pray you are deleting those roms after 24 hours

disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu.

Until windows decides you really should have that switched on and flips it back after an update.

Do it! It’s easy; Linux mint is soooooo easy

That was my main issue with Windows. I’m not here to fight with my computer, especially not with a corporation controlling MY computer.

I’m a computer dumbass and I managed to install Mint by plugging in a USB and clicking “next” until I had a new OS installed. Maybe something else would be marginally more suited to me, but Mint does everything I want: games, internet, and office software are all I need.

I'll be running Windows 10 LTSC until late next year on my work machine, but even I have issues where Microsoft Store keeps reinstalling itself after I gut it. If I leave it installed it causes BSOD and super slow startup times (Hours).

Talk to your PC is just going to be Denholm Reynholm from IT Crowd.

Let's enjoy making fun of Win 11 until we can't.

Yes, for sure.

But we will eventually clean up our AI slop code mistakes. I'm not so sure if Microslop will or not. It might not be profitable.

Talk to your PC is basically what cortana was

Mint is now easier to install than Windows. With Windows you have to create a microsoft account or run commands in order to skip that step (assuming you didn’t use rufus skip account/tpm check when flashing the image)

That's not the same at all though. Complaining about AI "features" being shoved down users throat, and AI being used by developers are very different things.

Both can be complained about, absolutely, but they are completely different things.

If Microsoft was using all artisanal human written code to deliver all the AI crap, I wouldn't be complaining about it any less.

Good point

Also, the good thing of open source software is that anyone can clean off any bullshit code.

Why would you even want to delete them after a day?

On that topic. Weren’t they going to get rid of the oobe bypass nro thing? I reset a computer the other day and it still worked.

Works doesn’t always means works well. “Playable” on proton db has wildly different meanings to some people.

Hello? Hello computer! Hello?!

If I recall right, they were getting rid of one older unsupported way to do that, but multiple news outlets misread it as getting rid of the ability to bypass at all and then the story got spread from there.

Thanks for explaining that! I was rather commenting on how it is for some of my old friends who game. I’m happy to learn that even piracy is better on Linux :) I may convert those to Linux then!

Don't forget SuperTux! It got a larger update just a few days ago.

https://www.supertux.org/news/2026/03/14/0.7.0

But can you clean it up faster than AI can create new bullshit code?

You don't need to pull the new bs...

Some contributions to Kwin

Link please