https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu6zViY3sbo&t=1s
I saw this pop up and I found it pretty interesting, it looks like Microsoft is making more DRM moves on Windows generally and like it or not they're going to force everyone to upgrade to Windows 11. I went through the pain of learning the bypasses early on because I knew this was going to happen but it looks like they really are going out of their way to shut down local account setups.
This is important to bring up, oh I wish, I wish the Linux community would get their thumbs out their arses and make some kind of easy to use normie distro. The microsoft market share is ripe for the taking with every dick move that they attempt.
I would have jumped ship ages ago but the problem is the ease of use when it comes to windows the beauty of the simple double click and GUI is not to be underestimated. It's going to be a lot like anything that big tech does now it seems and people are going to be pushed more and more towards open source options because of big tech stuff simply becoming unusable crap due to the types of people that are being hired en masse at these companies.
I guess I should potentially look into Linux again and at least research my options but I don't know if in 2024 things have gotten any better beyond the god awful endless terminal nonsense that reminds me of a worse version of DOS. Please autists, please make a normie distros for Linux that let's me do gaming easily because I want to do stuff like play Morrowind and other old windows based games.
Ubuntu, Mint, Pop_OS, Zorin. Used Zorin to play the old switcheroo on my parents and they barely noticed. In fact, the only time I was "required" to enter the terminal was to add the repos for LibreWolf so they have a decent privacy-focused browser. And that's only because I wanted to be lazy and copy/paste that task. Everything regular people might want is in the GUI. And, let's be honest, power users on Windows are dropping into command line / powershell anyway.
Lutris is fantastic for a "just work, damnit" gaming shell. Surprisingly it's even easier and better at running Windows 98 era stuff on modern graphics hardware than Windows 10 is. Half an hour of reading is all you need: wine prefixes, runners, etc. No one is born knowing it, but give it a shot and it will pay dividends. Switching up between playing Sacrifice (2000) and Mad Max (2015). My wife is playing Baldur's Gate 3 (ulg, 2023). Wrapped up playing some Touhou games (Lutris has a retroarch wrapper) a while ago. All within the same UI.
Current complaints about Linux:
(a big one) Support is shit. Always been shit. Lots of really old no-longer-useful advice floating around out there. And if you don't know a magic word to search for, you might never find it. If you're having printer issues, for example, you're just going to have to know to add "CUPS" to your searches. We do have a woefully slow c/linux so getting some activity here from like-minded people would be good.
"Not invented here" anti-pattern, probably more accurately stated as "Not invented by a woke marxist." Commies and SJWs are working hard to strip away old stuff that works and replace it with new stuff that doesn't but is woke (Wayland over Xorg, systemd over initd, and more). But if you just want to use your machine and not mess around in the internals, the defaults are all very sensible and usable.
Thanks for the tip on Lutris. 100% going to be trying that out at some point. I might have to grab a cheap SSD or something, or use an external HDD and try to dual boot a bit on my actual gaming PC.
I'd been considering 86box with Windows 98 to run old games. I'm going to give this a shot first.