[lo0sr]

For anyone that has a need for Windows (I dual boot for gaming), but hates most of the "features" like myself, look into installing with a autounattend.xml file, that worked for me like a charm. I generated one using the following page: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

[tym0]

Would have been nice to have this tool when I did a clean reinstall for Windows 11, I used OOBEFly which worked well enough to remove a bunch of things.

Personally I've switched back to using Linux as my main OS for my home gaming machine after 15 years. I've kept a tiny partition for Windows 11 for the odd multi-player game (BF 6) but I'm not logged in anything but game launchers on that OS.

[franczesko]

Windows isn't a must for gaming nowadays

[strken]

DRM is an issue on Linux. Consider the recent BF6 release.

You can avoid titles with DRM, of course, but then you'll inconvenience your friends who do use Windows, or be unable to join them.

[Rhedox]

DRM is almost never an issue. The problem with BF6 is the anti cheat, not DRM.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Sadly depends on your niche. Nucleus coop runs only on windows and it's a must,since nobody makes splitscreen games anymore,only online multiplayer

[jonathantf2]

For some games it is

[dijit]

Vote with your wallet.

Yeah, I know this sounds stupid, but I mean, the majority of games are there now.

The signal is all that's needed, I work in AAA games and we shifted heaven and earth to make Stadia work. Which means somewhere in Ubisoft there is a fully functioning version of Watch Dogs Legion and The Division that run natively on Linux.

And the answer was the same when I asked why we didn't release it: we don't see a market, and we don't want to maintain another channel of support.

Right now it's not costing them any meaningful sales, so why would they put the investment in?

[orphea]

  > a fully functioning version of Watch Dogs Legion and The Division that run natively on Linux.

The problem is with competitive games that require an anti-cheat kernel driver.

[dijit]

EAC works on Linux.

[orphea]

I'd say this is a bit of a stretch when 54-60% of games are broken or explicitly unsupported. https://areweanticheatyet.com/breakdown

[M95D]

There are so many good games on GOG that I have no chance of playing them all in my lifetime.

[qingcharles]

That looks good, thanks. I'll try that on my next build. I normally just use tiny11 and then run debloat on it.