I’ve been using Linux for productivity for almost 10 years now, but have always been leery of gaming with it. I finally took the plunge and installed Bazzite on my gaming PC a few weeks ago, and it’s been great! … except I’ve got some niche VR hardware that only has Windows support and I’ve been unable to get it to work with Linux. So I’ve just been playing VR games on the old Windows 10 install, keeping it isolated from the Internet.
Unfortunately, now some of my games have updates that I’d like to get my hands on, but goddamn do stories like this make me nervous about letting Windows go online again. At the very least I’m expecting it to screw with grub, and at worst, there’s shit like what’s in this meme. Not to mention I’d probably get forced onto 11 in a few months. Fucking Microsoft, man…
Might I recommend Windows 10 LTSC? It’s technically only intended for specialized enterprise deployment where a new OS might disrupt specific software/hardware, but it is a stripped back version of Windows 10 which gets a much longer security update window (10 years iirc) than base Windows 10. Might be worth looking into if you don’t wanna make the Windows 11 switch.
I’ve been using Linux for productivity for almost 10 years now, but have always been leery of gaming with it. I finally took the plunge and installed Bazzite on my gaming PC a few weeks ago, and it’s been great! … except I’ve got some niche VR hardware that only has Windows support and I’ve been unable to get it to work with Linux. So I’ve just been playing VR games on the old Windows 10 install, keeping it isolated from the Internet.
Unfortunately, now some of my games have updates that I’d like to get my hands on, but goddamn do stories like this make me nervous about letting Windows go online again. At the very least I’m expecting it to screw with grub, and at worst, there’s shit like what’s in this meme. Not to mention I’d probably get forced onto 11 in a few months. Fucking Microsoft, man…
Might I recommend Windows 10 LTSC? It’s technically only intended for specialized enterprise deployment where a new OS might disrupt specific software/hardware, but it is a stripped back version of Windows 10 which gets a much longer security update window (10 years iirc) than base Windows 10. Might be worth looking into if you don’t wanna make the Windows 11 switch.
How is Bazzite compared to Nobara or PopOS?