why haven't you switched?
>>730815038i'm on win 10 still, i'm following the cattle from far behind, not with them
>>730815038That's a bold strategy, Cotton. It will only work if Linux takes off
>>730815038what are bill's hands doing?
>>730817197Linux is taking off. Nobody wants to use Windows 11. Especially in Europe there is a huge push for Linux.
>>730815038Gog could use some more Mac support too for us Mac daddies
>>730817389I'm surprised the EU doesn't have their own distro. They could be saving every EU country hundreds of thousands if not billions by just making a distro and hiring a couple of engineers to audit the code.
>>730817671They need to figure out how to add chat control to it first.
>>730817808They could do that after a majority has already adopted it and are too entrenched to do anything about it.t. Machiavelli
>>730817310appears to be of the mercantile persuasion
>>730815038>We're really gonna think about taking a closer look at that one dayBased!
>>730817671>I'm surprised the EU doesn't have their own distro.They are still hoping to mend relations and keep global trade up. But IMO it is time to ditch Windows and bring out the digital Euro. Hopefully we won't have VISA/MASTERCARD bannig videogames anymore.
>>730817671Arch Linux is an EU distro. Unless you mean official government made distro, which would be completely creepy and unwelcome.
>>730817389>Linux is taking off.I've reading that since W10's release and still doesn't feel like it. ynr w10 is a decade old
Gog should step up their game and support android packages for their dosbox games.
>>730815038Microsoft has to be carried entirely by office subscriptions and enterprise laptops at this point
>>730815038>why haven't you switched?I already have a linux install I boot for non-gaming uses, but in terms of why I haven't switched to gaming there too (with a setup specifically for that) probably just anti-cheat games.
>>730818176>bring out the digital Euro. Hopefully we won't have VISA/MASTERCARD bannig videogames anymore.The irony is that a lot of EU countries already have such alternatives. Swish, MobilePay, Bluecode, MBway, etc.>>730818320I mean one supported by the EU itself, one that can be deployed to government computers for their purposes and installed onto educational/public PCs. It doesn't necessarily have to be made by them.That said Germany just spent half a million on rewriting the Arch package manager into Rust so I hope the Arch folks enjoy their compiler backdoor.
>>730818427goverment chokehold. remember when iran got exposed for using xp on the systems?
>>730818585I mean true but a lot of mega corps in the us are still using xp. no way Microsoft is still getting money from 20 year old systems right? they’re barely even xp it’s more like a terminal
>>730819387You're missing the point; Microsoft gets a good chunk of cash from selling cybersecurity to countries and their goverments. Enough to allow them to sell flawed software to the mass consumer.
>>730815038Wait, who the fuck bought GOG?
>>730818418>install dosbox>add folder of game to dosbox>it runsWhat else do you need?
>>730817310diddling kids at Epstein's, then shaking hands of other monsters at the WEF
>>730819956looks like either Patrick Stewart or Jeff Bezos
>>730819956One of the CDPR founders.
>>730815878Yup staying with Win10 for as long as I can then switching to Linux.
>>730815878but you are the cattlethere are pioneers, normies and laggardsyou're in the laggard territory
>>730817671French gendarmerie (military police) has it's own distro.
>>730815038then why is there no galaxy on linux? i dont even want it anymore because heroic does everything i need it to. not that galaxy inlcludes anything of value, just another overlay to fuck with my shit for nothing. I asked them for a steam input solution be included with the overlay so all games can have their controls edited and work with modern controllers and they told me xinput was good enough. shortly after these fucks starting begging for patreon donations
>>730815038So is GOG finally realising they're in no position to pick customers?
>>730817389I don't know why windows 11 is hitting so hard when it's almost the same as 10 desu. The fall from 7 to 10 was worse, that's where all the ads in the OS and telemetry and windows store shit started. I guess the main thing 11 has is that they actually told their customers to fuck off by not supporting hardware and telling them >Oh nooo your PC won't work any more you'll have to trade it inwhich is ballsy even for MS desu.>>730821920Honestly it's for the better, no one wants to have to use 10 different launchers, nor to be trapped entirely in Steam in case something bad happens or you just want to pirate shit.Making one good open launcher that has support for all vendors is the only way for anyone else to begin to approach Steam at all.
>>730821476That's good, but I think it should be extended to the entire EU so Europeans can stop being beholden to Microsoft's and US intelligence agency's whims. It'd be better if the European Commission could take charge of it so effort isn't being duplicated by every country doing their own thing in their own corner.
>>730817671A lot of European countries are switching to Linux in some department tho.
>>730815038Because Linux is not native with a range of professional tools which people have to use for work.
Hopefully, it was bizarre to me that GoG's launcher of all things was the only one that gave me trouble on Linux. Even the shittiest ones like Origin and Battlenet worked fine in Proton.And it's important that a DRM platform like Steam isn't the only choice if Linux ever does takeover.
>>730822296>which is ballsy even for MS desu.What did you really expect them to do anyways?Without forced secure boot and TPM 2 they can't embed kernel level anti piracy shit for their windows store.Plus, they also please hardware vendors by forcing people to purchase a new machine even though the old one still works alright, but since they only supported up to 3 year old computers, there was barely anyone who would have one compatible.
>>730822402I think so too. It's pretty weird but the gendarmerie is a few parsecs away from everybody else in the french state when it comes to technology. Way better than the regular police or the standard armies or education.
I thought the old owner just bought back most shares
>>730823217>gcc>emacsAll I'll ever need.
>>730822296>I don't know why windows 11 is hitting so hard when it's almost the same as 10 desu. The fall from 7 to 10 was worse10 could dangle the DX12/performance carrot over 7. Meanwhile 11 offers literally nothing over 10, while making everything bad about 10 even worse, and adding copilot/recall nightmare shit.
>>730823772>emacsHoly cringe. This is a vimGOD site.
>>730821305>you are cattle because you're studying the cattleno
>>730815038"Windows has been shit for years" is a rare opinion that 99% of the internet can agree on.
I'll switch to Linux when w10 iot stops getting support entirely. By then it should be more polished.
>>730823932You're staying on the platform for retards because you were too clueless to accumulate grievances for the last 10 years like everyone else who's been paying attention
>>730824008>By then it should be more polished.Niggers like you never bother to switch. You'll be waiting for Linux to turn into Windows forever.
>>730824113>it's for retards because it works without troubleok you make a good point
>>730820906>not upgrading to 7 and dualbooting with Linux
>>730823932You're on the platform made for cattle to jump in, you unaware dolt.
>>730824208You're cattle, you took the vaxx because it saved you the trouble
>>730818176>Hopefully we won't have VISA/MASTERCARD bannig videogames anymore.yea, you will just have the eu doing it and you will gladly slurp it up and defend it
>>730824337i didn't get vaxx because i didn't bother nor cared
>>730823884WRONG>>>/g/105076692
>>730824219nta but this is on my bucket list but through qemu instead of dual bootingtheres shit I need that doesn't always work on linux like renderdoc or editing tools that pisses me off to no endwould rather avoid the bloat of windows and just have a minor windows instance as a quick compatibility layer I can quickly VM into and spin up an app in like 5 seconds
>>730815038Gog should drop the whole multi-launcher thing and add linux support instead. Playnite does it better anyway.
>>730815038AI slop and trump antagonising Europe are the perfect combination to finally kill windows. Ridding the consumer space of Microsoft was unthinkable a few years ago but now it seems inevitable.
>>730815038...new owners?What happened?Is GOG going to go evil now?
>>7308242197 doesn't work on any GPU from the last two gens and you still get old drivers
>>730824394Are you proud of being a geriatric dementia patient?
>>730817310Rubbing his hands together, the age old visual signifier for greed.
>>730815038People have asked for years for this but gog sat on their ass. Now steam has crushed them.https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_the_gog_galaxy_client_for_linux
>>730818363Linux desktop market share has tripled in that time
>>730824829heroic just works and would likely be better than anything they released. I actually hope they don't make their own client because it will probably end up making them brick heroic.
>>730824169He's right though. People are still recommending arch-based distros just to get the latest drivers, there are still rough edges with Wayland, and windows 10 still works. That's not the kind of situation where you have to rush to do something urgently. Hardware/software support for 10 will gradually degrade but that hasn't gotten too bad yet.I say this despite the fact that I'm screwing around with cachy despite my better judgement. I mean so far it works quite well but who knows how it'll go
>>730824698>thinking about keeping up with current specsThat's your issue. Abandon modernity, it's not worth it.
>>730815038This is great news. But what I really want is an alternative to Windows, something which Linux is not meant to be.Fundamentally, this is an OS problem that has yet to see a solution.
>>730824987everyone has their own pace. I started with popos like 5 years ago and never commited. then i switched to endeavoros two years ago and though id switch for good. i went back to windows because it just worked. now im on endeavor again and the stops i had before are not an issue now. but i just want my games and mods to work. someone else might need more.
>>730825176It is an alternative retardYou want a 1:1 replacement because you're scared of learning
>>730817310that's C-suite gesturing. they learn to make it a habit when presenting because it convinces people you're thinking as you speak which indicates genuine attention. It's manipulation
>>730823340GOG games don't need a launcher, but if you really want one on Linux, Heroic Game Launcher supports downloading and launching GOG games.
>>730825176It's called reactos, you will hear from it in 2027.
A "new owner" sounds bad, but if they're genuine about linux and being wary of windows, I hope they have the right trajectory and won't just drive the company to the groundGOG is one of the best things a consumer would want if they get into gaming. Steam is a temporary solution, but if you want to keep your games and even hand them down to your kids, you'd always want offline installers for everything.When you die, your Steam account is going to be frozen and nobody else can enjoy those games that you bought over the years, and that's just fucking highway robbery.Imagine if inheritance wasn't a thing, and people would just burn the belongings of deceased people. What a fucking waste.
>>730824987Arch distros are recommended because they're the closest to valve and because their sole weakness is gone with lumine and btrfs snapshotsThey're objectively the best
>>730824804i'm proud of winning the argument
>>730815038About fucking time.t. Linux user for three years now
>>730824848>from 1% to 3%Call me when Linux represents +25% of PC.
>>730817671how is it not obvious>dead internal market>nobody is making startups>software engineers paid like shit so most either leave or just coast along doing the bare minimum at work (this is me)
>>730815038Please tell me they're ditching Gog Galaxy or at least making a Linux port that removes all the useless social shit in it.
>>730823994yet its still better than linux
>>730825176It's not an OS problem, it's a developer problem. They go out of their way to prevent their software from being used on Linux. There is no technical reason, just inane excuses. This finally changed with games because Valve was able to pump up Proton, which bypasses the developers. And now only the very largest holdouts remain.The same could happen with other software, even Microsoft and Adobe might eventually cave if they can keep the subscriptions flowing in.
>>730826451meds and I dont mean your estrogens linuxtranny
>>730826510>the coping beginsror
>>730826587meds
>>73081503875% of my msdos based gog games dont even have a Linux version for download, lazy bums.
>>730826686>the bot broke alreadyyikes
>>730826739back to r*ddit linuxtranny
>>730826137You think being too lazy and slothful to have scepticism towards an operating system that exists so that a jeet CEO can spy on you is winning the argument?
>>730826856>you're being spied oni know i just can't do anything about it
>>730826379Only the third world and the left side of the bell curve whiteys think this
>>730824395/g/ opinions are irrelevant ever since canned guro/
>>730826510What caused this retarded response to a perfectly logical statement?Did you just want to pick a fight?
>>730815878You will be picked off by the hyenas whilst I thrive in the safety of the herd
>>730815878Cattle are the ones too dumb to install an iso and needing it to be preinstalled on their new hardware The people currently moving are sapient and above average
I used to love Windows, but it's genuinely getting worse with every update now. What used to be basic functionality is lost. Even the fucking image viewer is laggy. Searching for a file with the folder browser is hit or miss. Typing a program's name in the start menu only works sometimes. The OS will straight up just block you from installing things it doesn't like, even from unzipping things sometimes. The settings menu is a fucking decoy to keep you out of the real settings. The computer just does what it wants, Microsoft acts like you're just borrowing from them and you don't actually have permission to control your own goddamn computer.It's insane.
>>730828015windows 8 was the point of no return.
>>730815038I'm going to buy from them from now on.
>>730828015Jeetsoft seems like they want out of the OS market.
>>730829251Far from it, it only seems like it because they're that fucking stupid now.
>>730824694One of the co-founders bought the company so they're going from a subsidiary of a publicly traded company to standalone and privately owned by just one guy.So things could end up working really well, or he could absolutely fuck shit up. We'll see.
>>730829251Nah, they just don't care, because they assume that people will still use them no matter what they do. This assumption is correct which is why they've gotten bolder over time. It actually makes sense for them to get lazy with their OS in exchange for advancing in other markets.The problem is that they are incompetent and everything they make is bad, so they never gain ground anywhere. They are too used to working with heavy lock in that forces everyone to use them. Shit like teams and the win11 file explorer is actually their best effort. They can't compete in new markets. This can go on for a fucking long time.
>>730826282Well if it took ten years to go from 1% to 2% and then went from 2% to 3% in 2025, that means it'll cross 25% in about 18 days, if my napkin math is correct
>>730819956Some jew
>>730828015>it's insaneIt truly is, I had Linux installed on my old shitty laptop ten years ago, but went back to windows because Linux wasn't better enough to justify being on all the timeI reinstalled Linux a few months ago and it's worlds better
>>730822296>The fall from 7 to 10 was worse, that's where all the ads in the OS and telemetry and windows store shit startedJust like other anon pointed out it doesn't do anything better than w10 while at the same time got rid of features I thought that should be given. We reached the point where you need to install UI mods cause you cannot even move the taskbar anymore. The icing on top is now all the useless AI and shit like the recommended section in the start menu that causes CPU spikes as it's react native.
>>730829251lol no, they want to take control of your computer away from you. And they're succeeding because you enable them.
>>730830309Fun fact, by default every single keystroke in the search bar of the start menu sends a separate call to Bing to search for whatever you're typing on the web instead of just searching a local index of files and/applications Web search in the start menu can be turned off (for now, at least) but this should be indicative of how little Microsoft cares about their users
>>730825954The "new owner" is one of the original founders of CDPR and GOG, and he bought it so it wouldn't get bought out by some soulless corporation and murdered.
What's the point of GOG? Is it just for retards who can't use dosbox & dgvoodoo2 themselves?
>>730829940grim.
>>730830698There are plenty of tweaks you have to do in the settings, registry or group policies before w11 becomes somewhat useable. They only fixed recently that disabling the recommendations would actually remove the section it as previously it was still shown with a note that you should turn it on. Shit like edge you cannot uninstall cause it's somehow integrated into the explorer and would break some functionality if you do so
I have troonix fatigue
>>730830991They sell DRM free games
>>730831198There's a bunch of retarded shit in the Linux desktop space, but even canonical and red hat can't even hope to reach 1% of the level of turbo jeeted radioactive ass cancer that modern windows has become
>>730831241you lost, wintroon.
>>730815038>pcgamer screencap thread
>>730831198I had to remove the Microsoft Store with PowerShell to stop getting ads in the start menu. Haven't noticed any ill effects yet.
>>730824395>/g/Jayslop
>>730818363pajeet shill
>>730822296>I don't know why windows 11the fuck you don't, dumbass nigger pajeet shill - it's a fucking laggy ball of shit
>>730824208>it works without troublecomplete bullshit. YOu can shill all you want it's not gonna change windows dying and you losing your H1B affirmative action job
>>730824565>but now it seems inevitable.you really don't get just how incompetent and fraudulent pajeets are - that's the inevitable part - also nvidia is releasing geforce experience for linux - they can see the writing on the wall too
>>730825176>something which Linux is not meant to be.so desperate - so weak
Yeah, still not using trannyix
>>730815038>why haven't you switched?I can't play my gacha games on linuxyes, I have the tism
>>730825795>reactosI think it's cool, but it has been in development since the 90's and it's still an alpha. What is going to happen in 2027 to suddenly get everyone to switch to it?
