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[mckmas8808]

it was a gamepass only issue with the game, not windows.

windows issues people talk about are mostly related to drivers, HDR, and other apps that are non-gaming related. you are conflating windows with the Xbox app or worse PC gaming. I use the ubisoft app, EA app, steam, epic store and the xbox app is the one that has the most issues.

PC gaming is actually in a pretty decent state and has been for a while. you have native dualsense support now. HDR on windows 11 at least has system level calibration which finally brings it up to console standards. MS are just bitches for not porting that back to PC but whatever, i will stick with windows 10 and avoid all the issues these guys bringing up with DRM based apps and MS copilot integration.

I think the real problem is Microsoft itself. An xbox app from MS on Windows should be the bastion of gaming apps. If ubisoft, EA and Epic can make better apps on windows then so can Microsoft. I think it has something to do with just how many indian graduate students they hire instead of Americans which means a lot of dumb ideas from third world countries are now firmly integrated into windows. I still remember just how many of my graudate TAs were applying at Microsoft while they refused to even look at undergrads as if we were just too dumb for them. Well, 20 years later, now those indians are running windows and it clearly shows with just how little innovation they have introduced recently and how user experience is even less of a priority than it was when bill gates and co. ran the shop.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Hey, works on my machine.

Not updating to Windows 11 even if you'd pay me to though. Shit seems bloated to hell and back.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Three of the torchbearers of PC gaming (Battaglia, Leadbetter and Linneman) start gang banging on Windows and the thing keeps on going for minutes and minutes. I find that curious since some people told me that PC gaming was a breeze nowadays.
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Its modern windows really what they are complaining about. many people arent happy with windows 11 and are switching to linux which is a lot more stable.

 

[Killer8]

Microsoft better copy all of the SteamOS ideas from the Steam Deck and integrate them into the next Xbox. I swear to god. Conceptually, their Xbox PC hybrid idea could be the greatest device of all time (imo), but it all hinges on them not fucking up the software side of things. And I guarantee they will, which is just baffling considering they're known as a software company.

 

[adamsapple]

Hey, works on my machine.

Not updating to Windows 11 even if you'd pay me to though. Shit seems bloated to hell and back.

Yep, keeping on Win 10 for personal usage.

Don't hate myself enough just yet to even consider Linux.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Don't hate myself enough just yet to even consider Linux.

Same. Well in my case is more about lazyness lol, got a lot of shit installed on my PC and don't want to move all that to another partition.

As an IT dude, I go by this mantra: "if it's working, don't touch it!"

 

[Parazels]

Meanwhile the miserable pc-minority:

 

[Crayon]

This was my idea for a video and I've been writing them for like 10 years to do a collab. I'm so pissed they recorded this without me.

 

[Radical_3d]

Same. Well in my case is more about lazyness lol, got a lot of shit installed on my PC and don't want to move all that to another partition.

As an IT dude, I go by this mantra: "if it's working, don't touch it!"

Yeah, but then you don't get security updates.

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Maybe I shouldn't have upgraded either…

 

[TintoConCasera]

Yeah, but then you don't get security updates.

Spoiler

Maybe I shouldn't have upgraded either…

Oh shiet, you are right! Well I don't really browse the web all that much on the computer anyway, so hopefully I'm safe lol.

 

[Fess]

Haven't seen the video. Can someone sum it up?

I use Windows every single day for gaming. No idea what they can rant about here unless it's about Windows gaming on the Xbox Ally, which sucked ass and I swapped from Xbox App to Playnite after 1 hour of usage.

 

[Radical_3d]

Well I don't really browse the web all that much on the computer anyway

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

Jobs said it best. Ms just make crappy products. Unfortunately they have a monopoly on operating software.

It makes you think how much more powerful our pcs would be if you didnt have to deal with windows

 

[TintoConCasera]

I fap on the phone

 

[keefged4]

Every week Windows does something to piss on my chips, this week it was destroying my CPU undervolt by falsely flagging it as a virus and no longer giving me the option to set it up again, so yes, Windows is shite. Once Nvidia support is a bit better on Linux I'll nuke windows forever.

 

[Crayon]

many venture to install Linux and come face to face with a complex system, where one wrong command can break your system, where for small apps that in Windows you just download and run, you have to compile software and install dependencies using commands or find a compiled one that works with your specific distro...

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[crazyriddler]

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2025 and none of that has changed a damn thing.

 

[Crayon]

I mean, not bad drop in performance by all means but why? On top of the list of games that require tinkering fro protonDB or just downright doesn't run because of anticheat. I mean why would I deal with this. What do I gain here?

You get to change your computing environment, and hopefully still do what you need to do. For me it's just browser and games. There's some caveats on the gaming part, but nothing too serious if you aren't invested in one of the anti-cheat games.

So you can change your operating system, a fundamental part of operating a computer. That in itself is amazing. Could have been just one, by now. If you are happy with windows, you would have nothing to gain. But if you don't like your os, you have a lot to gain by changing, because you may end up liking something else more.

 

[Crayon]

Yea but its not native, and native is ideal. If the linux marketshare keeps growing then they might consider releasing native games for linux.

The marketshare would need to get unrealisticly large. And because proton works so well, that's not going to be a thing anytime soon. Even then, it's not necessarily true. There's some advantages to using proton on windows games. In any game that has a linux version, I force the windows version through proton, anyway. Devs only have to maintain one version, fixes stuttering, controllers work more reliably, and performance tends to be better.

 

[Loomy]

I find that curious since some people told me that PC gaming was a breeze nowadays.

For 99% of people jumping on playing some random game, it's a breeze.

Just fire up Steam, pick a game, and you're on your way.

I don't know what the fuck Microsoft is doing with Xbox App. And the other stuff is shit Microsoft has gotten away with for ages now, so it's good people are calling them out for it. But if they're going to put a bigger focus on Windows for gaming going forward, they better get better at fixing and not breaking stuff.

But yeah, PC gaming is generally a breeze still.

 

[poodaddy]

Excuse me? Console gamers? Want me to go in on PC gamers and their girlfriends in discord?

Sure we console gamers are a snoody bunch of know it all children but you PC gamers are normies fucking full on mate. Half of people on discord are your friends from work who couldn't name any fucking videogame but wow.

You think we don't know about those people but we play wow too, we play everything eventually. Our eyes are everywhere.

We know how secretly uncool you all actually are.

We also know that like only one or two of you are smart in every friend group and the others are hangers on who you got into PC gaming by helping/making them build a PC. We know.

 

[Thebonehead]

This was my idea for a video and I've been writing them for like 10 years to do a collab. I'm so pissed they recorded this without me.

Rich shared it on screen.

 

[Crayon]

Rich shared it on screen.

I fuckin knew he got it!!!!