It’s arguably garbage. Game Overlay was just one of a long list of things shoved down my throat by M$ that eventually culminated in my wiping my windows partitions, and fully moving to Linux.
I’m not going to proselytise, I’m just pointing out that it was one of the factors that helped the decision to fully switch easier for me personally to make.
Fair. My main issue, beyond it just not providing any benefit to me at all, was not being able to get it to fuck off and stay fucked off. Like OneDrive. Why the fuck is everything automatically installing and saving to the OneDrive folder? To try and force it down my throat, and M$ can fuck themselves with a rusty cleaver for the displeasure.
For my part, I used aerotweaker on my win 11 machine to disable most of that junk.
Cool, that’s good info! 👍
Too late for me, the only Windows devices I interact with are work PCs, and tbh, they’re barely running win10, so it’ll be interesting to see how the org deals with EoL. We’re forced to go through data security training yearly, and still store and transmit most of said data through American servers. 🤷 Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Ubuntu seems to be trying lol
Yeah, not a big fan of how Canonical does things. I run an Arch derivative…btw 😉
Unfortunately they do make quite a decent starter distro. 🤷
Many other factors have been shittier imo. Like forcing online authentication so they can steal your content, & scan it and sell thr profile. with crap like onedrive, edge and every other pointless services you dont want but generates money for Microsoft.
Top it off the list of people they sell your data to includes but is not limitted to:
data brokers (onsell to anyone including criminals)
Nope, see the second sentence of the comment you’re replying to:
Game Overlay was just one of a long list of things shoved down my throat by M$ that eventually culminated in my wiping my windows partitions, and fully moving to Linux.
It’s arguably garbage. Game Overlay was just one of a long list of things shoved down my throat by M$ that eventually culminated in my wiping my windows partitions, and fully moving to Linux.
I’m not going to proselytise, I’m just pointing out that it was one of the factors that helped the decision to fully switch easier for me personally to make.
That’s it, they’re making Games for Linux Live now.
Not on MY distro they’re not! 🤮
It doesn’t break things like other overlays in my experience, but it also doesn’t provide anything I want.
Fair. My main issue, beyond it just not providing any benefit to me at all, was not being able to get it to fuck off and stay fucked off. Like OneDrive. Why the fuck is everything automatically installing and saving to the OneDrive folder? To try and force it down my throat, and M$ can fuck themselves with a rusty cleaver for the displeasure.
Yeah, I mean that’s just how it goes with Windows/Mac(Ubuntu seems to be trying lol), they want you integrated into all their services.
For my part, I used aerotweaker on my win 11 machine to disable most of that junk.
I can absolutely see how that is annoying, but it’s not impossible to disable with a little tweaking.
Cool, that’s good info! 👍
Too late for me, the only Windows devices I interact with are work PCs, and tbh, they’re barely running win10, so it’ll be interesting to see how the org deals with EoL. We’re forced to go through data security training yearly, and still store and transmit most of said data through American servers. 🤷 Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Yeah, not a big fan of how Canonical does things. I run an Arch derivative…btw 😉
Unfortunately they do make quite a decent starter distro. 🤷
Is that all.
The game recorder is not bad.
Many other factors have been shittier imo. Like forcing online authentication so they can steal your content, & scan it and sell thr profile. with crap like onedrive, edge and every other pointless services you dont want but generates money for Microsoft.
Top it off the list of people they sell your data to includes but is not limitted to:
Nope, see the second sentence of the comment you’re replying to: