A detailed video as to why win11 is anti-consumer garbage.
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So how viable is Linux as an alternative if you game on your PC?
The only games I cannot play on Linux are Destiny 2 and Escape from Tarkov, and that's because of their implementation of BattlEye, other BattlEye games work fine. Not that I even want to play destiny anymore.
No big loss there.
Far more viable than it used to be. Steam's Proton tool makes it possible to play many Windows games with minimal tweaking. It's not perfect, but it's nice to be able to game without a million Windows processes running in the background, eating up your CPU.
The ProtonDB site is a useful tool to see how individual games run on Linux.
It's been fine for me, but I mostly play slightly older titles.
SteamOS is pretty decent, can run in desktop mode and gaming mode with some performance loss. It is also available for regular PCs.
Some gaming comparisons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Y5y3cjH1Q&t=430s
If you use nvidia forget it. Drivers are still awful. Just dual boot, with a Windows install for games.
Why is this not the follow up video he did?
https://youtu.be/vvaWrmS3Vg4
Internet spergs whining about "muh anti consumer" garbage is passé.
"Don't ask questions, just consume product and get excited for next product."
Just don't consume, then "le anti consumer" doesn't matter to you, doesn't it
This is a bunch of bitching about Windows 11 (which I will never use 11, 10 is as far as I go because I can disable most of MS bullshit). But instead of bitching why don't complaining jerks like this guy in tue video instead provide elegant, simple to understand and guided solutions to work around Microsoft's bullshit instead of just whining and not helping people overcome? Make it easy for mon and dad users to circumvent MS.
Can't comment on Outlook (outside of "just check your e-mail on the e-mail provider's website). Well, Mozilla has Thunderbird which was - years back - functional enough but Mozilla has their own issues these days.
For Word, though, go with Libreoffice. Nearly as effective, cross-platform, free, and also getting away from the software-as-a-service model MS is trying to go to for with Office 365.
Note that Thunderbird now operates out of MZLA rather than Mozilla Corp directly. While Mozilla does own MZLA, the arrangement gives Thunderbird a degree of insulation and freedom from Mozilla.
I use it occasionally. It's really just an email client with a calendar and newsgroup client. It's a little old school but it works fine. Far better than the ad infested clients most companies are putting out these days.