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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

by lo0sr 1y ago

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/ https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

franczesko 1y ago
Windows isn't a must for gaming nowadays
- jonathantf2 1y ago
  For some games it is
  - dijit 1y ago
    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 1y ago
      > 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 1y ago
        EAC works on Linux.
        orphea 1y ago
        I'd say this is a bit of a stretch when 54-60% of games are broken or explicitly unsupported. https://areweanticheatyet.com/breakdown https://areweanticheatyet.com/breakdown
        dijit 1y ago
        There's an option inside EAC to enable linux support. I don't really care how many games have actually enabled it, I know it exists.
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  - M95D 1y ago
    There are so many good games on GOG that I have no chance of playing them all in my lifetime.
- strken 1y ago
  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 1y ago
    DRM is almost never an issue. The problem with BF6 is the anti cheat, not DRM.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 1y ago
  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
qingcharles 1y ago
That looks good, thanks. I'll try that on my next build. I normally just use tiny11 and then run debloat on it.
tym0 1y ago
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.

by lo0sr 1y ago

franczesko 1y ago

Windows isn't a must for gaming nowadays

jonathantf2 1y ago
For some games it is
- dijit 1y ago
  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 1y ago
    > 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 1y ago
      EAC works on Linux.
      - orphea 1y ago
        I'd say this is a bit of a stretch when 54-60% of games are broken or explicitly unsupported. https://areweanticheatyet.com/breakdown https://areweanticheatyet.com/breakdown
        dijit 1y ago
        There's an option inside EAC to enable linux support. I don't really care how many games have actually enabled it, I know it exists.
        deleted 1y ago
        [deleted]
- M95D 1y ago
  There are so many good games on GOG that I have no chance of playing them all in my lifetime.
strken 1y ago
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 1y ago
  DRM is almost never an issue. The problem with BF6 is the anti cheat, not DRM.
Fire-Dragon-DoL 1y ago
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

qingcharles 1y ago

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

tym0 1y ago

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.