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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.
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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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
Unfortunately, Bazzite doesn't work well on my devices otherwise I would. Waiting for a full SteamOS release to get better support.
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.
Don't think I ever tried dual booting, only had each os on separate disk. How does it work launching specific things and booting into windows? I was thinking about using virtual Machine but heard that can be bad on performance.
I game in a VM with near baremetal performance.
I use PCI passtgrough do pass the whole GPU into the guest.
I don't use a Desktop Environment in the host though (proxmox)
I made my steam OS partition (Bazzite) the primary, created a new uefi boot partition for it (don't use the windows one, it's more hassle than help), and run a script to reboot into windows now. It works for me when I want to play a Windows only game.
If you've got multiple operating systems on one system, that's dual booting! You can also partition a drive to have multiple os's, but that can have slightly more difficulties.
From last time I tried virtualisation, I needed to assign my graphics card to either the host or the virtual machine, and switching was a hassle. Unless things have changed, I decided booting into windows when absolutely required (anticheat) was the best option - avoiding some of the hassle that comes with virtualisation. If you've got multiple GPUs, that might be an option.
I think OP is talking about having an application e.g. steam launch on startup, which can be set in Task Manager.
Performance for virtual machines is honestly not as bad as you'd expect, provided it has reasonable resources allocated and the host isn't being overworked. A GPU passed through will be much more enjoyable than a software/virtual GPU. You can expect 90%+ (perhaps up to 98% or so) of the performance of bare metal.
As a quest 2 owner using Manjaro I can tell you the following: It works great. But sometimes things can ba a bit finicky.
Some games don't offer VR on their linux version (e.g. Warthunder) and are a pain to get working with their windows version on proton (allthough i havent tried this in a year).
But other than the odd exception everything is great!
And I think it'll only improve as Valve continues developing the steam deck and therefore improving proton.
Jokes on them, my loophole has been linux since 2006.
Good luck trying this within the EU.
Don't think the commission cares after Vestager's departure
All these rules and all this limp dick enforcement 🤡
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.
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.
Rufus has a flag for this too
Oh. I didn't know that was a function of Rufus. I thought that was because of the iso.
Same. Been running it for nearly a year now
Windows 10 is creating a loophole that lets me skip installing Windows 11.
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.
Cool I can't wait to install this thing so that I can play rimworld or whatever
I know you're probably joking but Rimworld plays great on Linux through Steam. I've played hundreds of hours and have loads of mods.
yea