<story><title>Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-documentation-for-switching-to-a-local-account-in-windows-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkteflon</author><text>I made the switch. It’s fantastic. Pop with the pre-packaged Nvidia drivers.&lt;p&gt;Other than Warzone and Tarkov (for which I keep a separate drive with Win10), the only things I haven’t quite managed to get sorted yet are (i) a convenient system-wide replacement for the frame limiter in RTSS, and (ii) relatedly, proper frame-pacing when streaming using Sunshine.&lt;p&gt;Also, Steam seems to have a weird and widespread bug where if you use Big Screen, exit to the desktop mode, then launch BS again, you get like 5fps in the BS front-end itself (after launching a game, it’s fine). The workaround is to just kill the client when you exit Big Screen (usually when your gaming is done anyway).&lt;p&gt;Really happy I made the switch and fully expect those niggles to get sorted (or my aptitude to improve) in due course. Windows has been shit for a while but recently it’s really crossed over into unbelievably shit.</text></item><item><author>xlii</author><text>Geez, the more I read about it the more I think about migrating my gaming machine to something like Pop_OS. I heard people are having great experience, and Steam through Steam Deck has considerably improved gaming on Linux experience.&lt;p&gt;I think I get it - there are plenty of people using Windows as their primary OS and they want bells and whistles while not caring about telemetry. But just.. let people disable things.&lt;p&gt;IMO fact, that Microsoft is pushing spyware on their users and make it harder and harder to disable it is much more important topic than EU focusing on Apple (which is monopoly inside their ecosystem, but not a provider of &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; software used in offices etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KronisLV</author><text>&amp;gt; a convenient system-wide replacement for the frame limiter in RTSS&lt;p&gt;My budget gaming PC is still on Windows and RTSS is a lifesaver: I couldn&amp;#x27;t stream or record some games with my Intel Arc A580 otherwise, since titles that use DX11 or older rendering technologies typically have worse performance than the more recent ones, ergo I have to stream&amp;#x2F;record at 30 and cap the framerate anywhere between 30-60 depending on the title, otherwise things get unstable.&lt;p&gt;Of course, it&amp;#x27;s not ideal, but is at least workable. A bit odd that the card struggles with games like Ghost Recon Wildlands (DX11, 2017), but not Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Vulkan, 2019) or ones that use DX12 etc. Either that, or when there&amp;#x27;s a title that&amp;#x27;s badly coded and doesn&amp;#x27;t lock framerate properly to the screen refresh rate.&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, around 90% of the 500ish Steam games I have would actually run on Linux (various indie titles, mostly), at least according to ProtonDB: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.protondb.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.protondb.com&lt;/a&gt; which is pretty nice to see, except for the fact that last I checked something like GOG doesn&amp;#x27;t run on Linux natively, though thankfully something like Lutris exists.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-documentation-for-switching-to-a-local-account-in-windows-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkteflon</author><text>I made the switch. It’s fantastic. Pop with the pre-packaged Nvidia drivers.&lt;p&gt;Other than Warzone and Tarkov (for which I keep a separate drive with Win10), the only things I haven’t quite managed to get sorted yet are (i) a convenient system-wide replacement for the frame limiter in RTSS, and (ii) relatedly, proper frame-pacing when streaming using Sunshine.&lt;p&gt;Also, Steam seems to have a weird and widespread bug where if you use Big Screen, exit to the desktop mode, then launch BS again, you get like 5fps in the BS front-end itself (after launching a game, it’s fine). The workaround is to just kill the client when you exit Big Screen (usually when your gaming is done anyway).&lt;p&gt;Really happy I made the switch and fully expect those niggles to get sorted (or my aptitude to improve) in due course. Windows has been shit for a while but recently it’s really crossed over into unbelievably shit.</text></item><item><author>xlii</author><text>Geez, the more I read about it the more I think about migrating my gaming machine to something like Pop_OS. I heard people are having great experience, and Steam through Steam Deck has considerably improved gaming on Linux experience.&lt;p&gt;I think I get it - there are plenty of people using Windows as their primary OS and they want bells and whistles while not caring about telemetry. But just.. let people disable things.&lt;p&gt;IMO fact, that Microsoft is pushing spyware on their users and make it harder and harder to disable it is much more important topic than EU focusing on Apple (which is monopoly inside their ecosystem, but not a provider of &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; software used in offices etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Macha</author><text>Similarly, my Windows 10 install on my primary PC is basically a Destiny 2 launcher at this point</text></comment>