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Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet (www.neowin.net)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Support for product activation has moved online.

Linux is this way, guys.

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[–] ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (22 children)

I’d switch off windows but most of the games I play won’t work on Linux due to “anti cheat”.

[–] v0rld@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Not judging, just curious.

What games are those? In the last 12 months I tried 151 games on Linux. All of them worked, only 6 required tinkering.

[–] mp04610@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I recently found a neat list of games that don't work due to Anti-Cheat:

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

So it's probably one of the ~700 games.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Awesome find.

Looking at the first 4 pages, you'd have to pay me to play the "denied" games.

I'm not missing a damn thing. :D

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You must not play most of the top 5 fps games then lol.

Literally everything a "normal" gamer plays is not supported on linux.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Normal gamers don't just play FPS lol

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeahh they do. 90% of kids with a ps5 wanna play bf6 and pubg etc type games. And if a normie even thinks of gamer they think of fortnite bf and cod.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We're talking about Windows vs Linux, not consoles. A normie will think of roblox, which blows all consoles as well as steam/EPIC/etc out of the water.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not the original commenter, but for me it's Arc Raiders. I'm a fan of extraction shooters and have been messing with the idea of fully switching to Linux and ditching microslop completely, aaaaaaand then Arc Raiders was released

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 6 points 7 months ago

i'm a linux gamer and can personally confirm arc raiders works on my machine 👍

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Arc Raiders

Arc Raiders has Platinum status on Linux, meaning it works extremely well under Linux. What problem are you having with it?

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