Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. The got smacked with those EU antitrust lawsuits and they reset back to Embrace, and started participating in open-source again. Then they started extending by doing shit like buying GitHub and adding even more cool shit to it. Now they're entering in extinguish phase where they're doing shit like making it difficult to change default browser, and integrating all their services together without the ability to integrate 3rd parties.

They'll (hopefully) get smacked with another EU antitrust lawsuit and reset soon.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I really would like them to go back to being the cool weird uncle, not the cousin everyone is forced to play with at family gatherings.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's legal and user pushback - and it's a battle I'm bored of fighting. I just use Linux, and find it simpler. With Windows, it's ads, forced updates, 'upgrades' that re-enable 'features' i never wanted, a billion background services, most of which I don't need - and more.

Fuck the battle to keep shit from being shoved down my throat.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still game a fair bit, and although gaming on Linux has come a long way, I unfortunately still find its not where I want it to be, yet.

Hoping that the popularity of the Steam deck fixes that, although idk if AAA games are really targeting it

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Makes sense, everyone makes the trade-offs they're willing to make.

Next best thing to Linux is stripped windows installs like ghost spectre. I dual-boot, myself, but spend most of my time in Linux, with windows being a regrettable but useful occasional tool for gaming.

[–] Resistentialism@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you got any idea if ghost spectre fucks woth how games and anticheats work?

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ghost Spectre has a few different distributions, at least one of which is minimally intrusive, and works with most if not all anti-cheat software.

The guy's site is weirdly organized, but he describes the tradeoffs of each distribution pretty well.

[–] Resistentialism@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it the one that ends with .jp?

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Yep.