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I used to be a huge Windows fan, but shoving Edge upon me so aggressively has made me decide it’s time to move on. Moving forward, I’m only buying Apple or Linux devices.

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I bought my pre-teen a prebuilt pc for gaming recently. Figured windows 11 would be easier due to compatibility with games and it being pre installed. After screwing with it for several hours to remove as much crap as possible, What I found was that every time it restarted there was a new prompt to reenable something, surreptitiously start using a ms service, etc. I gave up and installed Ubuntu. Not every game works perfectly, but most do, and its no longer a confusing experience for my kid.

I mean what the hell. My kid just wants to play minecraft for Christ's sake.

I would love to see my kids using KDE on some flavor of Linux, but the two biggest games they play have issues. Roblox and Fortnite.

Its such a shame, because from what I can tell, the only reason Roblox doesn't work is because they do some very goofy stuff to launch the game

Once Ubuntu breaks: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/

It's a gaming distro built on top of Fedora Silverblue, making it stable as heck while having up-to-date official steam, and other goodies. Works on Deck too, if you want that.

I am happy that my teenage dream of an actual sub-genre of desktop PC usage is finally getting distros designed that particularly purpose.

Only works with steam deck or amd GPUs?

No, there's also the bazzite-nvidia variant if that's the GPU you got. It's fairly easy to setup. Once you start bazizte ISO you're given a choice of the variant you want/need.

I myself run the nvidia variant on my new desktop and the OOB experience has been amazing.

Might be worth having a look under Settings / System / Notifications and the check boxes at the bottom of the screen which are:

Show me the Windows welcome experience

Offer suggestions on how I can setup my device

Get Tips and suggestions when I use Windows

(I've posted this in the past, but it does seem to help)

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