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Xbox Mode Arrives on Windows 11 PCs for Console-Style Gaming (hothardware.com)

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

The Steam Big Picture mode we have at home:

[–] Gmak2442@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Interesting but not for me.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That stupid series X was the biggest waste of money, microslop will never see a dime from me for videogames moving forward

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow!

Guess I'm uninstalling Linux...

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You forgot the /s

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what does that even mean

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

But like seriously, is this just a console-style interface overlay for selecting the game you want to play, rather than opening it through Steam or double-clicking a shortcut or executable? Why? Why would someone want that?

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'll stick with Steam big picture thank you.

[+] Paddzr@lemmy.world -11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Braindead comments here, same as reddit... this is amazingly good, you can get 'any fullscreen experience' and set it to playnite or steam. You get all the performance benefits and use your chosen platform.

I've been using this for months on my son's gaming machine and it makes a huge difference in ram heavy titles or titles which needed that little bit more to run.

But hey, continue to hate.

This is basically steam os performance without limitations of linux. Steam os allegedly still edges ahead but we're now talking margin of error levels.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

limitations of linux

I'd look at it the other way around - why go to a platform that has marginally worse performance, while also making you deal with the limitations of Windows.

[+] Paddzr@lemmy.world -8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a gaming feature, why would you not want to be able to play all games? Are you not a gamer??? Maybe this feature is not for you then and neither is this conversation.

[–] Arilou@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Are you not a gamer???” he said unironically while trying to defend a $2.75 trillion company that has laid off thousands of game developers after promising it wouldn’t in order to get approval to buy one of its biggest competitors. Just one of many attempts to solidify its dominance at the cost of gamers and the people that make games. I wonder why people “continue to hate”, it must be all those other comments that are “braindead”.

> Why would you not want to play all games?

My steam library is well over 600 games, the vast majority of games I want to play are playable on Linux. Why would I pay money for an operating system as shitty as Windows just to play a couple of games that use kernel level anti cheat. And why would I pay money for a game that demands kernel level access to my system. I honestly can’t think of a single PC game I actually want to play that I can’t.

Use whatever OS suits you, just don’t get salty when people laugh at Microsoft trying to deal with the aftermath of them pissing off a subsection of gamers and computer users over the years.

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God, what an insufferable comment.

You act like Microsoft has executed your dog. It doesn't make this feature any less useful. If you're happy on linux, stay there? Not everything is made to suit you and your fetishes...

The sheer fact people taking my are you gamer line serious is hilarious. Do i need to put /s ? I'm sorry to hear MS lives rent free in your head.

[–] Arilou@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

You act like Microsoft executed your dog.

Why, because I gave one example of how shitty they are for the game industry?

It doesn’t make this feature any less useful.

I’m not going to pat Microsoft on the back for making Windows almost as good at running Windows games as Linux/SteamOS can run Windows games, I’m going to laugh at how funny that is. That one feature also isn’t going to make the rest of the Windows experience any better.

Not everything is made to suit you and your fetishes…

Ah yes, my fetish of wanting to be able to use my computer and game without Microsoft and other companies enshittifying every bit of it.

Do I need to put the /s?

New to the internet? Surprised people you don’t know read words you wrote and they interpreted them after you claimed everyone was leaving braindead comments.

I’m sorry to hear MS lives rent free in your head.

They don’t, I only commented on your reply to VeganCheesecake because I thought they made a good point and most of your comments on the post came across a bit dickish.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I think you might have misread my comment. I was saying the feature only just gets to the same performance, while using it means having to deal with Windows.

If you mean the incompatibility of some anticheat titles - I think kernel level anticheat is an unmeritted level of system access, so I wouldn't use them either way.

[–] thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

I mean, its probably a good thing for those that still use microslop, but for those of us who have left for the freedom of Linux it's too little too late. I'm glad that it's working out for you though.

There aren't that many "limitations" for gaming on Linux these days. If you're into older PC games Linux works much better than windows. Most new games work as good or better too. I wholeheartedly recommend that you give it a try, especially since you seem to know what you are doing PC wise. I went from being constantly frustrated with my system (especially with broken updates) to actually feeling like I was in control of it.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Yuck. You still have windows. Why?