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I know a great loophole for avoiding setting up a Microsoft account: don't use this steaming pile of shit in the first place.
Unfortunately, Bazzite doesn't work well on my devices otherwise I would. Waiting for a full SteamOS release to get better support.
I upgraded my win10 steam pc to bazzite and the Linux driver for my old R9 380 graphics card actually supports a newer vulkan version than the win10 one, games are running great so far. I don't do insane gaming obviously but I think for older games it's a no brainer upgrade
Jokes on them, my loophole has been linux since 2006.
Been using tiny 11 iso. Doesn't even ask u to create an online account, and it doesn't come with edge browser. Can still get security updates. So far so good.
Same. Been running it for nearly a year now
Rufus has a flag for this too
For how long now?
3 months on my VM and just installed it bare metal on a work PC. Also, just to note, even if you are connected to the internet, tiny 11 still won't ask you to set up an online account, and even while doing updates during the install process.
I went to Windows 11 last week using the BYPASSNRO method. I really only use my PC for gaming, and I've noticed a lot more freezing in Steam than with Windows 10.
I'm moving back to 10 as we speak.
Since I would want someone to mention to me, if I was being jerked around by Microsoft while just wanting to enjoy my Steam library:
You'll be surprised how much of your Steam library runs (with minimal effort) on Bazzite Linux and it's probably less hassle to install than doing a Windows downgrade.
The only game I really play is Call of Duty, which will not currently run on Linux.
I wondered, since you sounded like you already had researched the situation. That sucks.
Oof. I guess Windows 10 will have to do then.
Yeah, definitely switching to Linux if possible. I'm not sure how it will work with VR stuff tho.
VR is possible but not ideal right now, largely depends on your headset and the games. SteamVR is lacking proper asynchronous reprojection so you can't dip below your headset's framerate without stutter and alternatives like Monado aren't as plug-and-play. Hopefully when Valve releases their (presumably) standalone Linux VR headset deckard there will be another boost to improving VR on Linux for everyone.
Dualboot might be good since then you can tune windows to be a dedicated gaming OS which auto launches the needed things. I went from win10 to mint and haven't booted back into windows for months.
Cant speak to VR cos I switched to a Quest when I realised all I did was play BeatSaber, and the room with my computer is not very big.
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Windows 10 is creating a loophole that lets me skip installing Windows 11.
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