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Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There kind of is though. I'm not here to argue it's enough to unseat windows but it is markedly different

From a technical standpoint it's just another linux distro with some nice tweaks for gaming but from a human perspective it has brand recognition, familiarity, a known company behind it. Those things do really matter for adoption. No idea if that'd be anywhere near enough, I'm not inclined to make predictions, but it does have explicit advantages over consumers hearing they can get a laptop with Ubuntu or fedora on it

[–] Toes@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah I agree. I just don't wanna see more apps made exclusively for the steam deck with SteamOS and winderp. So I feel it's important to highlight it's just another Linux distro.

https://youtu.be/5KYQRk_SIB8 this is what pulled my attention to the matter.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's very fair! I was concerned by that video too, though I would point out that if I remember right, the games in that video don't work on non-steamdeck devices including if you install steamos on a laptop or desktop

[–] Toes@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago

From my understanding of this video. That's because they intentionally locked the game to work on the steam deck.