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I've especially not enjoyed Windows occasionally hijacking the post-login screen to try to convince me to enable Cortana or whatever. The most frustrating thing is the only options when presented with the window were "Continue" or "Remind in 3 Days", rather than "Fuck Off". This abuse of user agency & consent is disgusting and ubiquitous in big tech.

Video games are the only thing keeping me on windows, plus last time I tried to set up a dual-boot with Ubuntu I somehow trashed the boot process of both OSs.

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I feel your pain - it was extra annoying on a gaming HTPC that is configured to boot directly into Steam Big Picture mode. Since the only peripheral plugged into it was the gaming controller, I had to go look for a spare mouse and dig out the HTPC from under the TV just to dismiss that thing.

I now have PopOS and steam is running most games no problem. I’m very pleasantly surprised how well it works

I've heard good things about proton. I also have some games outside of steam on gog and epic, does it work with those too? How about streaming the games to an Nvidia shield on a nearby TV?

> I also have some games outside of steam on gog and epic, does it work with those too?

It should since it uses Wine under the hood, but the ease of use is obviously way worse.

The only gog game I have is Factorio. IIRC Epic doesn't like their stuff running without what is essentially a rootkit, so that might not work so well.

You'll want to look up the specific games you care about. It's hit and miss. Some will work fine, some won't. E.g. with respect to Epic for example, Fortnite was reported working at some point, but stopped working due to their anti-cheating solution. No idea what the current state is.

I'm not talking about games published/developed by epic, I'm talking about games purchased on the epic games store. Looking online it seems you can run & download EGS games on wine, maybe.

Lack of multiplayer in most cases is a non-starter.

I play lots of multiplayer games on Linux. Multiplayer is a crap excuse for requiring a rootkit and if I really needed that I would just put emunand on my switch and call it a day.

Many AAA MP games aren't there due to anticheat not being portable.

Other AAA games aren't there due to complex, non-portable engines.

MANY AAA games work fine but their launchers don't (e.g., Blizzard, Origin).

All are shitty reasons for the games to not work. :p

MacOS does this with “enable Siri” after every update and annoys me to no end.

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