I think we have a bit of a degree of “Yep, that’s Microsoft alright” mood as a whole because it’s accepted that things are going to get worse for their users perpetually, so I personally stopped giving a shit because I already left before win10 EOL anyway. I’m guessing there’s a similar mood among others who already saw the writing on the wall.
one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ok, guys. I’m reading some of these replies which are saying the amount of outrage is out of proportion. I have to disagree with that. I don’t want an AI running on my PC that is monitoring and learning about my shit. I didn’t want that data saved even locally, let alone the monetization of that data. I don’t want to be paying for power of a device that is turning me into someone else’s paycheck.
Can you turn it off? I believe you can. But I also believe that doing it manually would be incredibly annoying since that does go with a lot of past practice. I also get it would reactivate itself after major updates, like how Edge keeps reinstalling.
Are there other solutions to my Microsoft issues, yes. Chris Titus Tech comes to mind.
But overall, the Windows ecosystem does not feel right to me anymore. Could other people still use it, yes. Am I going to stop them, not intentionally. But my Arch gaming PC runs games better than the same machine running Windows. I’ve always entertained the idea of a full switch, still have a Windows 11 dual boot and haven’t officially done it yet, but with this the moment feels right. At least for me, hopefully you can understand that.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Do yrself the favor and cut the cord.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 days ago
It’s off by default.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 days ago
For now.
Also fuck edge for so many reasons, like ring zero access. It’s "used by (not “powers”) other things in the os by design so that they "can’t " comply with EU rules(and more).
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The cool part is that 100% of the “AI features” they’re advertising are either not running locally or not AI at all
dbkblk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If you need 3D work, you can still use a virtual machine with kvm, it is really fast! (then ditch Windows :) )
aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you mean CAD, I found that FreeCAD works nicely as a parametric 3D modeler with some nice macros and addons
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not too into 3d modelling stuff myself, but I understand Blender is pretty good, too.
aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d agree that blender is very good. I find that it would be more suited to static stuff and renderings, as well as animations. FreeCAD is more like the commercial CAD software you’d find (Fusion 360, Solidworks).
On the topic of blender, It has some amazing features, and I am amazed at what people do with it (I also find it a bit tricky, but I probably just need to put a few more hours into learning)
KnitWit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I had dual boot with win10 for a while, but when they had that ‘bug’ that was wiping peoples linux partition I dropped Windows completely. As dar as I’m concerned Linux and other FOSS in general has reached a point where it meets the majority of my needs. Same goes for local storage vs needing anything through the cloud or streeaming.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 days ago
Every hang up I had eventually got solved. Except with modding games, I sorely miss Vortex or Mod Organizer and there’s no alternatives I know of besides doing it all manually.
That wasn’t a showstopper for me though. VR, HDR, Video Games were. These three are solved well enough for my tastes this year to drop my dual boot.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Fortunately on the modding front, the community’s already been cooking:
OSS Nexus Mods loader article
nightlily@leminal.space 3 days ago
I‘m using it for Stardew Valley and it works pretty well. Still early days and a bit clunky to use though. Not any power user features to speak of but I guess that isn’t their target userbase for a mod manager.
punkibas@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Vortex works on linux though, This is the guide I used.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 days ago
Is it just Bethesda games with these post-deploy scripts? I assume this:
https://github.com/pikdum/steam-deck/
Is forcing the Windows version to work somehow, but is it every game on Nexus or just Bethesda titles?
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
Nexus Mod Manager is working fine under Linux. It’s still under development, but i’ve been modding Cyberpunk 2077 to hell and back with it.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 days ago
You’re stretching it to say that when the Linux version has extremely limited game support.