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I have a recent (2024) Gigabyte AMD motherboard and Windows 11 refuses to recognize the Ethernet NIC or onboard wifi. I can't load the drivers during setup either because they're .exe installers and it wants .inf files or something.

I got mad and installed Fedora Kinoite, which somehow just worked out of the box. My games all worked too.

I've been mulling over installing a Windows partition for the inevitable game with anti-cheat I'd like to play (Battlefield) but insanely hostile shit like this has made me reconsider.

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I had been mulling it for a while, but with (the last version of[0]) Windows 10 support ending, and Windows 11 looking like a dumpster fire, I bit the bullet and went Linux on my main desktop, reformatting over the last Windows install in my house. It's been a remarkably smooth transition for me.

At nearly the same time, I re-flashed my phone with LineageOS, but without Google apps. I finally completed my transition away from Google that started with Snowden's leaks, only coincidentally did the same to Microsoft at the same time.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...

Battlefield 1 (I think) worked roughly two years ago, which is when I last played it. I think it was Lutris is that got it rolling for me. Not to mention the usual SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windows,x11 that us required for most anticheats. Give it a try IMO.

I check ProtonDB support prior to purchasing games, and I very rarely have to ignore a game.

Edit: just checked and, wow, Linux support has been explicitly disabled.

Fairly recently they rolled out "proper" anticheat to BF 1 and V. Sucks that they don't support linux anymore but the games were also pretty unplayable with the overrun of hackers previously.

Have you tried opening the .exe with 7-zip to see if there are .inf (and I believe .sys files that go with) that you can extract?

I've mostly dropped it, I have a couple of windows machines for dev stuff but I really don't enjoy using the OS, each time I log in there is a new annoyance.

If I got to a point where I couldn't use it without a Microsoft account I would just drop it entirely.

At this point it’s mainly my Quest 2 that’s keeping me from keeping my tower booted into Linux most of the time.

You can use ALVR to stream SteamVR games to your Quest 2. Some people use another app called Envision. There's a bunch of information here https://lvra.gitlab.io/

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