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I primarily use my pc for gaming, and want to avoid upgrading to Windows 11. Beginning the journey of looking into alternatives.

I am ignorant, trying to be less so. I have a hard time understanding what exactly makes a game not work just because of OS.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

that’s not the developers fault.

Forcing Ring0 spyware on the users IS the developers fault by 100%.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

FWIW, it’s actually more the publishers’ fault. Typically as a developer you get told what environment you’re targeting and how the publisher wishes to publish you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, don't let us be too nitpicky here. They intentionally make it not run on Linux because of their spyware. So it's entirely their fault.