Microsoft keeps releasing new versions of Windows.
They say each version is better than the previous one.
Is there some truth to this ? Or is this mostly marketing bullshit to push people to spend money?
Microsoft keeps releasing new versions of Windows.
They say each version is better than the previous one.
Is there some truth to this ? Or is this mostly marketing bullshit to push people to spend money?
Personal Opinion
Windows 10 and 11 are the worst so far, though I didn’t fall on the Win 8 dagger.
Windows 10: Forced OneDrive, always running-but beyond useless Cortana
Windows 11: See above, plus we did everything we could to hide interface options (right-click copy/paste is now hidden behind another click)
I switched to Bazzite a few months ago, and so far the only game I’ve had issues with is Fallout 4, single digit frame rate, but ymmv.
You can disable everything you mentioned here
You may need to use mods to fix Fallout 4, but I believe Nexus already ported their vortex modloader over when you’re ready for that.
Vortex works through wine, but not natively. Nexus Mods made a new mod loader that was Linux native, but they actually just cancelled it to focus on vortex.
I just learned about Limo which is a Linux native mod loader, and it seems to be a great option.
Nexus Mods is actively developing the linux native port - check their website.
They were (with the “Nexus Mods App”), but they cancelled it literally a few days ago. As part of the announcement about shutting it down, they said they would maybe consider Linux support for vortex.
Here’s the announcement
I just dont get why I would ever use Vortex when Mod Organizer 2 exists? It does a better job, with a better UI and less jank.
I thought the Nexus Mods App was being built to have an official mod manager that actually could go toe to toe with MO2.
Are they going to overhaul Vortex?
r2modman is still the best modding experience I have had outside of Minecraft.
Ah, thanks for the correction.
Who downvotes you for saying thanks?
I haven’t had forced OneDrive on Windows 10, or Cortana.
It comes with shit installed that it shouldn’t, but every thing I have uninstalled, has stayed that way.
Other than the shitty settings menu, Windows 10 ended up okay. You just had to tweak and work around some things, which you will be doing with Linux too.
Windows 11, on the other hand, is a complete pile of shit. I dual boot Linux now and use Windows less and less.
This I’d, admittedly, a shaky memory from when Win10 was first released, but while you could disable the visible portions of Cortana, I remember being unable to disable the telemetry portion. Hell I remember a custom version of Win10 being built to remove all of the tracking stuff they put in it, I think RevOS was the name?
Admittedly I haven’t used Windows at all outside of work in almost 4 years, and even then it hadn’t been my primary OS for a few years, so memory’s fuzzy
For fallout 4 you might need to disable vsync (IPresentFrameInterval) or some similarly named setting in config file. Also you’ll need to cap the frame rate after that
I’ve never seen OneDrive forced on Win10.
It’s an option, it’s there by default, but you don’t have to use it. I never have (used the default stuff), and I use OneNote heavily with my PC, iOS, and Android, which requires sync to OneDrive - which I setup later with a user account unrelated to the account on my PC.