In Windows 11, Microsoft has removed the option to make the taskbar smaller—and with the 24H2 build, even the old registry hack (TaskbarSi) no longer works.

Fuck Microsoft.

you will have your existence dictated to you and you will be happy!

If it wasn't for game devs deliberately making their anti cheat incompatible, linux would be such a no brainer

@12bitfloat only a minority of games use anticheat in the first place. It's not really a valid concern.

@iiii It is if that's the games you want to play. Just off the top of my head, Apex legends, GTA Online, Battlefield, Rainbow Six Siege and Valorant are all massively popular games that don't run on linux

They also removed the ability to deactivate Windows Updates forever via regedit

league of legends is so spotty on Linux cuz of the anti cheat you basically can't play it

@iiii that doesn't sound realistic, unless you count games by the title without weighting by any metric of popularity, success or even just effort.

So there's more room for the future AI assistent.

Microsoft failed to comply with 'if it works, don't touch it' rule. The classic start menu and taskbar works fine. I don't get they love to tweak and ruin it in the process.

@lorentz yes, I do not count the popularity in that statement. I speak about the amount of games that use anticheat that is broken on Linux on purpose. That amount is miniscule and is mostly related to the games which should not be played in the first place, because most of the anticheat games are multiplayer PVP garbage, which only breeds hate, the other large part is gacha games.

@iiii right, but counting all games equally is also not useful because most games are garbage asset flips or copies of classics like Frogger with basically no innovation beyond the blandest imaginable graphics. I'm not sure that popularity or budget are good weights, but I'm sure that some weighting is necessary.

@lorentz even if you remove obvious slops it won't change the distribution in any meaningful way. The majority of video games do not use anticheat software.

@lorentz https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Look there. A bit less than 700 titles are booked because of anticheat, however, the majority of those are "asset flips" or just slops, "year another PVP shooters" and gacha games. While the amount of games not using anticheat and not being total garbage is a lot more than half a thousand.

@12bitfloat wabbajack doesn't support linux. I also don't like the performance hit and shit driver support under linux. Its just not a gaming platform.

Some people want to game and not spend time fucking around with settings for every fucking little tweak.

When you mod, and every modding tool is written for Windows. You just don't want to be wondering if its the platform that is causing it to fail to work. Good luck getting support from mod authors to get it working.

I like what valve is doing to get more games working in Linux though.

@webketje if you want to control updates you need to have Windows Pro. Then through group policy set updates settings. You can also prevent windows from updating drivers during updates. My Win Pro systems do not update unless I tell them to.

@Demolishun Gaming on linux works surprisingly well. Like shockingly well

You just enable the compatibility tool in steam and it just runs. Even anti cheat just works unless the devs deliberately disabled it

The most you ever have to tinker is sometimes download a new version of your favorite flavor of proton

@12bitfloat how is nvidia support in Linux? Last I heard nvidia kept shitting on the platform.

@iiii that list is looking way better than I expected. how wonderful news!

@Demolishun for my use cases it got really good in 2021-23, but I'm using and supporting old cards

@Demolishun I've had no issues with the proprietary drivers so far. Maybe apart from gamma not working in some games

@Demolishun the worst case is hybrid laptop graphics with Nvidia dedicated

You guys are still using Windows? I will never touch the Microshit stuff

@iiii What about denuvo (not the anti-cheat one but the anti-piracy one)? Those have caused issues before as well

@BordedDev what about denuvo? It's just some additional user code that boggles down the process. At least it's not kernel level shit like most anticheat solutions, so it just works.
As far as I remember denuvo was causing issues overall, not for proton specifically