Can you run Battlefield 6?
Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
chloroken@lemmy.ml 2 days agoHow is continuing to use their product (thus being farmed for telemetry and other revenues) defiant in any way?
The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can’t run. Your defiance is futile and you’re the only one suffering, not Microsoft.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 days ago
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Can you run Battlefield 6?
Why the hell do you want Saudi Arabia and Jared Kusher* to have kernel-level access to your machine? Why, why is that worth it for just a game?!
- I really wish I was joking with this part
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
You should not install a game requiring kernel level privileges on a personal machine you use for anything other than gaming.
At this point, I recommend to go the console way (or dedicated gaming machine, which is basically the same at this point as you are not owning neither of them)
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I am not interested in playing any of those games.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 days ago
Ok, cool. Some people are. This is a quick list of some popular reasons why people might have not be able to just run Linux.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’d probably play BF6 and I do enjoy Apex Legends, but not enough to run Windows. Photoshop is great, but GIMP meets my non-professional needs. I’m not an engineer so AutoCAD isn’t a professional requirement and I can fix 3d prints or plan landscaping in freecad.
But, I can’t make Micrsoft stop enabling telemetry on my computer, inserting ads in my start menu or giving AI access to my entire system. I know there are tools to disable these things, I used them. I know the workaround to make local users, I know how to remove the AI integrations, I know how to use group policy to prevent the re-enabling of some items.
I don’t want to have to fight my computer in order to use it. I want it to do exactly what I want and nothing else. Linux lets me do it and that is more important than a few FPSs
Everyone gets to make that choice. Well, except the people who can’t upgrade to Windows 11… for them it’s Linux or joining a botnet at some time in the near future.
catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Good for you! Why demonize people who are though?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t know, you should ask the people that are doing that.
astagahdragonz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The last time I try to run valorant on non standard windows 11 install, the anticheat refused to run. I’m not playing valorant, just helping friend with tehnical issue.
sucius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The last 2, you can
chloroken@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Yes.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 days ago
on windows, or a console.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I can run any software designed for Linux or Windows. Period.
If a package doesn’t function, it’s because the developers arbitrarily decided to disable it for capitalist reasons. Not because it won’t work.
IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can’t run.
Well I’m glad you represent everybody.
People who need to use software like the Adobe suite professionally? They should just abandon their whole career and not use Adobe. Being unemployed will really show em.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Every time this topic comes up, you’d think that all Windows users are all professional graphic designers who use AutoCAD and also play Valorant professionally.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Lol.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I can run adobe software in Linux.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok but what if someone breaks in and his holding a shotgun barrel to my wife’s head and is telling me to run windows. What then huh? Linux people think everything is so easy.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I admit defeat.
relativestranger@feddit.nl 1 day ago
if you’re being paid to run windows software… that’s a little different.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 days ago
I get it but let me give you an example of the sort of thing Linux is dealing with:
I have a nephew who wanted a PC, and had a small budget (they where 11 at the time and I was not going to let them pay) so I used some parts around and made a not so bad mint machine. It worked very well but can not play fortnight (not an issue with mint or the hardware) or other such anti-cheat games. The child was ok with it but his parents got mad at me as to why I would not just “be normal” and put a real operating system on the machine. They tried to tell my nephew that he should not use his PC until they can bring it to someone that can “fix” it by putting windows on it (they are kinda asshats). Lucky for my nephew the place they took the PC said the same thing I did and that it would not run well with windows on it, but would do it if they wanted (they said no when they got the cost).
So the PC gets used and is enjoyed (it was the nephews birthday present from me), and used by his father as much as him. But all this time I am getting constant complaints about the “weird stuff” I forced on them, and that one day they will get him a “real” computer. Keep in mind my brother has a PC that is running windows that has more bloat and malware then you would think possible at this time (I think why he kept using his son’s) that was about the same in hardware (1060, am4 3600ish, 8 gigs of ram sort of machines). The mint PC was clearly better, and when their child started to point out how much more time my brother spent on his Linux computer then his own my brother just happened to “spill” a whole glass of water directly into his son’s computer. Then he hid the PC away and just blamed it not working on the “bad software” that it was running, and how it was a “trash” machine anyway. (I did get it back eventually, replaced the board and shipped it back to my nephew who is now using it again).
So the point of the story is this, would you if you had to deal with users (and lets assume you are not related to them) like this put Linux on their machines or just not want to deal with them and put a ripped and custom windows on it?
chloroken@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I cannot relate in any way. I would tell these people to figure it out themselves and that they’re ignorant and ungrateful.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Its often the worst part of working in the industry, I used to have to deal with these sort of people professionally (investment bankers are the worst). I am just pointing out that sometimes the solution is just to do the work and move on, and that is how we get to where we are.
Taldan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lawyers are even worse T.T
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There are no upcoming kernel patches that will fix the problem of people being ungrateful assholes.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 days ago
I mean there is bound to be one that bricks their machine, so I have that at least.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The trick is to always install their system using btrfs-dkms.
It’s guaranteed to break in a way that Google cannot resolve.
EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 day ago
In contrast, I set my nephew up with Linux Mint, and he is now slowly converting the rest of his family to open source solutions.
My understanding is that they keep having conversations about privacy news, and he keeps knowing a solution, which sometimes is Android or Linux based. So now his parents will ask me “Is it true the XY protects against YZ and is free?”
It’s been a pretty cool thing to watch.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 day ago
The kids can be alright.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oof. Those parents are horrible. At least you tried to do the right think for the little dude.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Unfortunately they are not uncommon, adults that are more childish then their children at times. I try to help but there is only so much I can do.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
If that story is at all true, I feel so bad for that kid regarding so much more than the OS on his computer. I honestly hope you have thought about the potential future circumstance that you need to take on an abused teenager.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Oh I do what I can, but those kids (3 of them) are not going to have a good time.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is your brother a Trumpy?
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 days ago
We are not american, and no he is (or was at one point) a card carrying communist (a really really bad one).
devolution@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was just trying to understand how someone can be that dumb and intolerant.