I noticed it with Starfield. The game was obviously objectively shit, but there were still tons of people defending it online. Dig a little deeper and you quickly discover that most of them were just Xbox fanboys who were mindlessly shilling for their first big “next gen exclusive” over Sony.
Now I’m seeing the same thing with Astrobot. It is, by all indications, a solid platformer with very nice graphics. Look around the internet a bit and you find people calling it the best game of the generation, which is completely unhinged. But I guess that’s what happens when the console exclusives have been utter dogshit for almost an entire hardware cycle.
Seriously, this has been the worst condole generation of all time. They let the old systems anchor development like 3+ years too long, and what few big games they’ve developed for new hardware have been either woke trash or live service trash.
PC indie gaming is the only place to be.
I must be out of the loop because I don't know what you're referencing here.
Windows has been increasingly taking power away from the user in their operating system. the straw that broke the camel's back for me was learning that it is possible to have a file on on your hard drive that you cannot delete, even with admin rights. the only way to delete it is to go through Microsoft tech support.
combine this with the invasive nature of the operating system, and it's clear you don't own your own computer. it's theirs, they just let you use it.
Expect the walled garden any next big version update. They will force you to only use their store and people will lap it up like the good little puppies that they are. IMHO switching to something else now is giving you the skills when you don't fully need them before you are required to learn them. Have a dual boot setup, was nice for me as well in the beginning until I noticed I have not logged into windows for months. That was the point I finally gave windows the finger.
they tried the walled garden already with the windows store, an adoption was so poor that all of the games that were worth it were released to steam.
Apple has been doing the walled garden thing long before Microsoft, and unlike Microsoft they are actually decent at quality control. the users who prefer that kind of environment already use apple, trying to compete with it using a team of Indian consultants is a fool's endeavor.
I've been planning on fleeing to another Operating system, preferably one that is relatively a lot like windows 10. ReactOS is one option, but I have not had a serious look at it in a long time.
SteamOS works great on the steam deck, and has been an excellent baby's first Linux machine for me. for how weak the steam machine is, it runs games incredibly well. I know you can download this operating system on your own hardware as well, but your mileage may vary.
You can just run proton on a normal steam install on Linux
Doesn't have proper Nvidia support yet, which is the only reason I have not installed it on my gaming rig yet.
I’ve had quite a nice Linux experience with the exception of Microsoft games and things with kernel anti cheat. I’d suggest most any steam-heavy user give it a try they’ve done such a good job making it feel seamless
with a nod to GOG for keeping old games playable (and most stuff runs just fine under linux as well, at the very least, I haven't run into any problems personally... heck, I even got a star trek: armada mod to run without any issues.
If you're going to go that route I don't know why you wouldn't just find an old Volume License copy of XP-64
I can't even run Windows Update on my laptop anymore. It tries to run the update, then rolls it back and gives me some cryptic error code every time. When I search the web for that code, the first dozen results are either Microsoft forums where the "MVPs" tell you to reinstall Windows, or shady websites that list five different things you can try; that is if you can find them behind all the ads.
Screw Microsoft. I'm not wasting one more minute of my time trying to solve a problem they created. But the problem isn't going away because Windows will be like "OMG you haven't run an update you're going to get viruses and your computer will die!!! Here, let me forcefully try to run updates for you until you enter an infinite loop you can't escape."
Just run Linux. I've moved to Linux to try gaming on it with a 3060 gpu and with the latest proton releases I don't have an issue playing games that I like
I had win11 on this computer for three days, THREE FUCKING DAYS, planning to put linux on when the weekend came around and I had a little more time.
Nope, third day, I finally got fed up trying to install vlc and I put fedora 35(37? can't remember) on in the parking lot of my job on lunch break...