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Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The writing is on the wall--I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

3 things I'm still looking to get in one distro and Windows will be gone. Not looking to have my desk/lap turn into another ad platform like phones did.

Easy drive mapping for remote shares, most have this but some are a bit clunky.

Solid games support, mostly a WINE thing. One called Bazzite looks promising with a pile of pre-configured profiles.

Easy and reliable connection to a DC so the same creds can be used across multiple machines. This is probably the hardest part in Nix at this point.

Otherwise pretty well every app I use is web based and hosted on some local server, or has a Nix native variant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

For games, have you tried Lutris and Bottles? These tools make it an absolute breeze to setup the games outside of Steam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I have not, the last time I made a real effort at moving to Nix for games was quite a while ago. The big factor is if I can get GOG working since that's the preferred platform here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

GOG is easy to setup through Bottles. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have had some good luck with Bottles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Its pretty freaking solid!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if Fedora would have a toolchain for networked credential management, with its connection to RedHat and everything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Probably worth a shot. I've gotten it working on a version of Ubuntu in the past, but it was far from the simplicity of select domain, give join creds, and reboot that it is with Windows yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Linux has had LDAP and other ways to use the same credentials across multiple machines since forever ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I know it exists, have gotten it working with one of those AD compatible samba based DCs before, but not without some messing about. I'd really like to see it as simple as it is in Windows before saying it's a drop in replacement.

Tried the other day with Mint and ran into something where one of the searches promoted manually editing the hosts file to point to the DC and Kerberos address. That kind of thing shouldn't be required and is the kind of buggery I'd like to see sorted out.