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Microsoft halts its aggressive Windows 11 ads in Windows 10.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Switched to 100% linux a few months back.

It is awesome, no interest in going back to that bullshit.

[โ€“] laurelraven 7 points 2 months ago

Same, even running games that supposedly don't work at all on Linux like MS Flight Sim (though, getting rudder pedals to work involved setting a udev rule to tell systemd that it's a joystick (technically... 3 full range axes) and not a keyboard (really not sure how it came to that conclusion...)

At some point I might try setting up a VM with a stripped down Windows that I pass stuff to for native or near native performance for the things I can't get working, but so far I've not had anything I want to play that I've not been able to