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online anti cheats are the worst thing (lemmy.ml)
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Recently, i had to move from nixos to windows against my will simpy because of anti cheats. While i dont game that much, the few games i enjoy playing are all online with some kind of anti cheat. I used to dual boot but i was tired of having to wait for my slow hdd to load windows (i only have one ssd). I literally used linux for everything else but because of anti cheats i am forced to move to windows. I managed to make it a little better by using wsl2 and removing bloatware but it will never be the same as linux

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[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A Windows license is in the realm of $200

[–] fhein@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't want to encourage Windows usage, but if you really need it you can buy a grey market license for $10-20.

[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but I'm just pointing out that a "proper" official Windows license isn't cheap.

[–] zodarr@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago

@fhein @CeeBee In the EU, you can sell used software licences afaik. I bought windows 10 a few times, really cheap. With office 2019, and one time with office 2021.