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Steam OS 3.8 ... Any moment now π
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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Are they trying to kill windows on purpose?
The sad thing is they know the large majority of users will comply. Most people put familiarity and convenience above their own privacy and general well-being.
Once valve drops better nvidia support into the kernel, and steamos starts coming pre-loaded on laptops and pre-built desktops it's over for their consumer division.
There's nothing special about SteamOS. Linux has been available as an option from several manufacturers for years.
What we need to see is a major studio pushing for Linux like valve has been doing.
Imagine if call of duty or fortnite had a Linux promotion to have a penguin hat. That would help
There kind of is though. I'm not here to argue it's enough to unseat windows but it is markedly different
From a technical standpoint it's just another linux distro with some nice tweaks for gaming but from a human perspective it has brand recognition, familiarity, a known company behind it. Those things do really matter for adoption. No idea if that'd be anywhere near enough, I'm not inclined to make predictions, but it does have explicit advantages over consumers hearing they can get a laptop with Ubuntu or fedora on it
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companies do things like this when they feel they have the power in the business/customer relationship and there's no regulations to stop them.
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I've used the unpatchable Win11 account loophole, that exploits a functionality of your pc, where you wipe your boot drive, and install NixOS on it
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Why the fuck is a Microsoft account so important to Windows that running it without one is considered a "loophole"?
My guess is that's it's easier to neatly package your data up for when they go to sell it.
Because we need your data silly π
They want to make money off of services, every service they offer requires a Microsoft account to purchase and use. Everyone that they force to make an account during setup is one step closer to paying for a Microsoft service.
There are obviously tradeoffs (less sales of these versions of windows and some users pushed away from Windows altogether among others), but the motivation is clear.
because microsoft is shifting focus from selling you a product, to selling you as a product
And they need a unique account to track every single click and thing you do on your PC, and the web, and everywhere else to facilitate doing that with greater control and ease.
Its literally what, and for the same reason, google has done for the past decade+
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"Hi, I liked XY development tool having a proper GUI on Windows where can I find a non CLI..."
"LEARN TO USE NEOVIM!"
"LEARN TO USE GDB!"
"DO EVERYTHING FROM THE COMMAND LINE!"
Describing the ability to make a local account as a loophole is letting a little too much real intention slip out.
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It's not a big deal. They're removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:
@echo off
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0
You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.
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I really hope the whole shift away from American products will convince more software and game developers to provide native support for Linux. I am approaching the fence.
Man, Microsoft advertising for Linux Mint YET AGAIN?! They are so gracious.
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This forced account shit is infuriating. Iβd see students with computers that cannot get to government-provided education sites because they are forced to sign up with a Microsoft account to use their PC, which forced them to setup a child account because of their age and therefore be under a parent account, which means the child account can only use Edge and can only go to whitelisted websites, which blocks some government education sites unless the parent account allows it through which they canβt until the student goes home.
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lol there's already a fix: run start ms-cxh:localonly from a CMD line in the installer
I'm so glad I finally ditched that shit for good
Windows 11 is enshittfying a feature that let you skip making a Microsoft account
There, FTFY.
Just one more reason not to use Windows, As if forcing data scrapers down our throat in the guise of AI wasn't enough.
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