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Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies (www.zdnet.com)
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In a long post titled "Our commitment to Windows quality," published on Microsoft's website and sent via email to millions of members of the Windows Insider Program, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri laid out a laundry list of changes Microsoft plans to make in Windows 11, starting this month.

What's most remarkable about this post is what it doesn't contain. Here's how Davuluri kicked things off:

Every day, we hear from the community about how you experience Windows. And over the past several months, the team and I have spent a great deal of time analyzing your feedback. What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better.

That paragraph belongs in the non-apology Hall of Fame, with a cross-reference to "Friday news dump" -- a classic PR technique that aims to minimize media coverage of the awkward news being released.

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[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm also on an NVIDIA GPU (4070 Ti) and I have no problem so far.

Even if the NVIDIA driver are marginally less performant, i think the leaner OS makes up for it.

I'm fairly sure I have better FPS and stability in Rocket League.

As long as you are ok with some tinkering with proton from time to time I think cachyos can work as a daily driver for gaming and most desktop tasks.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anti cheat is the main reason I should have said on top of the slightly worse drivers

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I play DBD, Arc Raiders, Wild Assault, and others just fine. Funny enough, it's just a few specific big names with the most anticheat problems: Valorant, Fortnite, BF6, and COD. In some ways, I'm happy not to have to even consider them.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

I do still play some Battlefield games that require windows, but Bad Company 2 (through Rome) and Battlefield 4 don’t which is pretty cool. Wish I could still play Bad Company 1 on Xbox live though.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah. I have BF6 so...

But at this point I'm reluctant to boot up my windows partition just to play this game.