I wouldn't say they're "crawling back to Steam", not like they've ever left. This is clearly for their new Handheld/Big Screen UI. They're seeing the success of Steam Deck and Steam OS and are trying to build a competitive experience on Windows.
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Don't forget they have their own gaming overlay(win+G while in game)
It's arguably garbage. Game Overlay was just one of a long list of things shoved down my throat by M$ that eventually culminated in my wiping my windows partitions, and fully moving to Linux.
I'm not going to proselytise, I'm just pointing out that it was one of the factors that helped the decision to fully switch easier for me personally to make.
That's it, they're making Games for Linux Live now.
Not on MY distro they're not! 🤮
It doesn't break things like other overlays in my experience, but it also doesn't provide anything I want.
Fair. My main issue, beyond it just not providing any benefit to me at all, was not being able to get it to fuck off and stay fucked off. Like OneDrive. Why the fuck is everything automatically installing and saving to the OneDrive folder? To try and force it down my throat, and M$ can fuck themselves with a rusty cleaver for the displeasure.
Yeah, I mean that's just how it goes with Windows/Mac(Ubuntu seems to be trying lol), they want you integrated into all their services.
For my part, I used aerotweaker on my win 11 machine to disable most of that junk.
I can absolutely see how that is annoying, but it's not impossible to disable with a little tweaking.
For my part, I used aerotweaker on my win 11 machine to disable most of that junk.
Cool, that's good info! 👍
Too late for me, the only Windows devices I interact with are work PCs, and tbh, they're barely running win10, so it'll be interesting to see how the org deals with EoL. We're forced to go through data security training yearly, and still store and transmit most of said data through American servers. 🤷 Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Ubuntu seems to be trying lol
Yeah, not a big fan of how Canonical does things. I run an Arch derivative....btw 😉
Unfortunately they do make quite a decent starter distro. 🤷
I don't know if I did something that most people don't, but I never had any of the stuff I deleted (one drive, the ads in the start menu, etc) come back after deleting them once right after install.
Nah, always came back after updates for me. Even when trying to remove from a fresh install. 🤷 Maybe M$ fucked up and forgot to push it to your PC?
Based on how everyone talks about it all coming back all the time, apparently so. Now I used a debloated version of windows for the few things that I can't get to work on Bazzite, so it wasn't there in the first place. Something to consider if you need windows for whatever reason.
I don't think I'll actually need to have windows installed ever again. I'm on Garuda linux (Arch based btw,) and everything I actually want to run, that doesn't have a native package, runs in proton/bottles/wine as good or better than in Windows. No regerts, and I'm not going back.
The only program that I felt tied me to Windows is Fruityloops. Runs better in bottles than it ever did on win10 or 11. There's a few VSTs I like that either just straight up don't work, or are temperamental in bottles. That said, I'm not wedded to any one synth or effect, and I firmly believe that restrictions foster creativity.
Is that all.
The game recorder is not bad.
Many other factors have been shittier imo. Like forcing online authentication so they can steal your content, & scan it and sell thr profile. with crap like onedrive, edge and every other pointless services you dont want but generates money for Microsoft.
Top it off the list of people they sell your data to includes but is not limitted to:
- data brokers (onsell to anyone including criminals)
- anyone with a credit card
- criminals
- foreign states
Is that all.
Nope, see the second sentence of the comment you're replying to:
Game Overlay was just one of a long list of things shoved down my throat by M$ that eventually culminated in my wiping my windows partitions, and fully moving to Linux.
A Windows handheld would be terrible for me, I'd forget it was meant to be a gaming machine and fall into a pit of customizing it and then probably break it.
That’s me and my Legion Go. Got a dock, wireless keyboard and mouse, swapped the backplate for a new one and got a full-size NVME adapter for it, although the last one is mainly just for keeping the wireless module cool as the SSD heats up a lot. However, the new backplate has extra cooling vents for that, too. Next is adding a heat sink to the new SSD.
If the next Xbox home console is running full-ass Windows instead of a walled DRM garden, and then they partner with Steam for easy swapping between the "Xbox/Gamepass" UI and Steam Big Picture, that's the best console. As in, like best console ever.
I don't even need to read the article to know that this post is sensationalized as fuck. People really need to stop upvoting garbage. Please post better content people. Do we really want Lemmy to be full of shitposts articles like this?