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Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a "Subscription Edition," "Subscription Type," and a "subscription status."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wondering how will F2P games with anti-cheat react to the news. Knowing that much of their player base may jump ship to Linux to avoid the subscription fees, will they relent and start using less invasive anti-cheat programs, or will they try to adapt specific versions of Wine / Proton to work in rooted mode?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think an optimistic view would be 1% of their users jump ship…until they see their game isn’t available and they jump back

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good thing that not one OS is Windows in our household and workshop.

There is literally no advantage in using Windows anymore for us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Great for you! My only reasons to stay stuck with Windows are 1. anti-cheat and 2. niche programs that don't work correctly under Linux because they use several Windows programs in daisy-chain

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Laughing in Debian 12

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

meh debian is great as a server but needs a lot of work out of the box to be used as a desktop. Better off with mint if you want a great out of the box experience

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[–] Appoxo 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Too sad that there is not the Office suite for Linux because it's really powerful
(I do use Open and LibreOffice at work. Personally they are mostly worse in comparison.)

Besides that I don't have a high dependance except for games. And looking at my SteamDeck it's not a high dependency.
If Steam can solve the anticheat and maybe even releases SteamOS as a desktop distro it would be very tempting to switch if I can't get anything else than a subscription or a free key.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Steamdeck ahoy, then. The only reason I have a Windows box at all is for gaming.

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