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Windows 11 October 2025 Update Triggers Major Gaming Performance Regression
- azretd 11mo agoMore firepower for the gamers to move to Linux. Steam will trigger a further exodus with their Steam Box once folks realize they have none of the constraints and a great experience.
- cheschire 11mo agoSteam box will be too expensive for mass adoption. Sure it will sell ok but it’s going to be priced like an equivalent gaming PC, not like a console. The folks that game on steam already have their gaming PC. The reason the steam deck sold was portability. People buying the steam box are those with above average incomes to afford two gaming PCs or those that are valve supporters. Steam box won’t make it suddenly the year of Linux
- Kirby64 11mo agoIf it costs the same as a gaming pc, people will certainly consider it for a gaming pc. The big thing, though, is that it’ll legitimize Linux as a gaming option for desktops.
- Grisu_FTP 11mo agoAs much as i love using linux i just kinda dont see it tbh. especially since many have a fear of linux for some reason (I would guess just the fear of the unknown?). So often i have seen people get scared and tense up and just that alone makes them spiral into a loop. I do hope you are right tho.
- psunavy03 11mo agoCan we also talk about how Win11 just randomly drops audio for no reason after even a brief period of silence, then takes some random amount of time to start playing sound again? I'd say it was a problem with my home theater/gaming rig, but it happens on my work machine too.
- Cyan488 11mo agoSpeakers/Audio Jack or Bluetooth? Sounds like the audio device going to sleep during periods of silence, then taking a short time to wake up again when audio is played. Maybe to avoid hiss? For a data point of 1, my laptop does this regardless of OS.
- wongogue 11mo agoTurn off power management for your sound device in Device Manager.
- psunavy03 11mo agoIt's an HDMI connection. There is no such tab.
- nacozarina 11mo agoit is surreal to watch the relentless beating MS has taken at its own hands there’s no competitor out there clobbering them, they are doing this to themselves
- cedws 11mo agoWe need a new commercial OS. Surely there’s a way to monetise it without ads, spyware, and LLM garbage.
- TingPing 11mo ago> Surely there’s a way to monetise it without ads I honestly don’t think so for any consumer focused ones. Including it with bespoke hardware kinda works but is so expensive to actually do.
- arresin 11mo agoSomeone should work on Linux to make something better than gnome or kde and charge for it. I would pay.
- Expurple 11mo agoWhy not donate to gnome or kde to improve those directly?
- hyperman1 11mo agoI don't think the problem is the money. Neither of them provides a long term stable API, let alone ABI. So progress gets reset on a regular base. Gnome is further hampered by no respect for user choice. They provide an appleish UI, with an Enterprise, one size fits all experience. KDE is better, but they are not the official GNU/Red Hat choice. They will choose practical above esthetica. A big part of the Linux success is POSIX, a standard to provide direction. The UI world never had anything line it, so it is very fragmented. A real solution could be a complete enough UI standard, used by OSX, Windows, Gnome and KDE.
- TacticalCoder 11mo agoI've said it many times: in the future, once Microsoft shall start selling vaccuum cleaners, do not buy one. For it's going to be the only Microsoft product that doesn't suck.
- mkup 11mo agoShameless plug: I've developed and maintain a couple of tools to control Windows 10/11 updates, telemetry and other potentially unwanted network traffic: FlashBoot and Emergency Boot Kit. Using these tools you can make Windows 10/11 completely silent online if you want to (akin to Windows 7 or Windows XP). https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/ https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/ https://www.prime-expert.com/embootkit/ https://www.prime-expert.com/embootkit/ You are welcome. One-time purchase, lifetime updates. Not a subscription.
- wiredpancake 11mo agoWhy would I purchase this compared to the million other scripts and tools that exist today? Many of which are completely open source.
- BizarroLand 11mo agoThere's WinAeroTweaker, Win11Debloat, FlyOOBE, ChrisTitus App, and dozens more that don't cost a thing because they're basically a collection of powershell scripts and a wrapper. It's a valid question. What does a paid app offer that these free and easier to get alternatives do not?
- LauraMedia 11mo agoFeels like I've been hearing "Update X makes Y worse" or "Update X destroys hardware Y" a lot more this year with Windows. Seems like they are fully embracing AI at Microsoft.
- vivzkestrel 11mo agoAll they had to do was release "Windows Optimal", an operating system with 0 telemetry, 0 bloatware, 100% choice to not even let AI and Edge get installed in the 1st place, a single screen with all the 10000 options to control privacy and all of them set to good defaults. Charge 4x the price of Windows Professional if you must. But "Windows Optimal" is 2x faster than Windows 7, "here are some benchmarks" Imagine the amount of people who would seriously consider hopping to it even for a higher price
- CuriousRose 11mo agoWindows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2024 is almost this, but not for consumer purchase. They basically did all the work, and refuse to sell it.
- rkagerer 11mo agoDoes it work well as a daily driver? Would you recommend it as the best choice amidst a sea of bad (Windows) options?
- CuriousRose 11mo agoIt would be perfectly fine as a daily - I use it for SQL Server on-prem infra that I also RDP to for SSMS 8 hours a day. It’s clear to me it’s the best of the worst if you need to use Windows. I daily macOS Sequoia - you don’t want my unfiltered thoughts on Tahoe.
- d3Xt3r 11mo agoThey're just not as interested/invested in Windows any more. They make obscene amounts money from their cloud services, even if they charge 4x for a special edition Windows, it won't bring them any meaningful increase in income. And now their focus is all on AI. A MS employee I spoke to recently said that all there meetings now revolve around AI, like how they can add more AI and sell more AI, that's all they call about these days. :/
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