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Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming — but I'm not getting my hopes up (www.techradar.com)
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Microsoft is working on a new project labeled Windows 'K2', intent on removing bloatware, reducing AI, and optimizing Windows 11 for gaming, with three focuses of 'performance, craft, and reliability'.

the issue is not about performance, is about enshitification. I mean, do we need TPM? do we need Microslop account to login our pc/laptop? do they really need to shove Copilot into Windows?

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[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Have you tried to Winboat the apps missing ?

I also switched earlier this year to cachyos. I'm definitely not going back. The simple fact that I need to boot the Windows old partition to update it makes me anxious.

I feel so much more in control of my operating system it feels really nice.

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 1 points 12 hours ago

Yep, I had a look at Winboat. It's effectively a Windows VM anyway (using RDP), so for the sake of the couple of applications I need Windows for (which mostly interact with each other), VirtualBox with a VM is easier for me to manage.

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

This looks cool, I assume it's not meant for super resource intensive programs though?

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Seconding Winboat, works great for the one piece of software I have that is stuck on Windows. At this point I am 100% not going back, I even wiped my Windows disk. That drive is for trying out other distros now.

[–] finalarbiter@piefed.social 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Winboat looks really interesting. How does it compare to just using WinApps? It seems like it's basically just doing the heavy lifting for setting programs up, yeah?

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's very similar. I found WinApps to be quite flaky, where WinBoat feels much more solid. However, a nice feature of WinApps is the ability to set the Windows apps as the default file type, and you can open files from the right click > Open With, which you can't do with WinBoat. Not that I've found, anyway.

[–] finalarbiter@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Nice, the default file types isn't a deal breaker for me. I'll have to give it a shot! I've been testing debian on my laptop before changing my desktop over. Hadn't found a good solution for a handful of my windows-only programs yet but this seems like it might do the trick.