I've hit my last straw moment today trying to remove the setting forcing my password to change on a laptop that I fucking own. Windows 11 has disabled pretty much all user management features of local accounts now unless you're signed into Microsoft and link your accounts.

Fucking bullshit.

I just need a spare weekend or two to make the swap now and throw wine on it for the games I play that refuse to run on Linux.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I just need a spare weekend or two to make the swap now and throw wine on it for the games I play that refuse to run on Linux.

if your primary storefront is via steam, you likely won't even need to manage wine, steam will do that for you as part of the install process. You can use something like protonup or something to get GE editions of proton but, honestly it mostly works right off the gate.

Just be aware that proton can have conflicts if you try to use it on NTFS drives, you'll need to manually specify UID and GID for the drive (via fstab or however you manage mounting drives) or you'll get permission errors that won't actually say what they are unless you ran steam via the terminal.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Unfortunately the games I'd need wine for don't run through steam and have their own launchers ☹️

But good to know for my steam library at least.

[–] heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a high probability that it will work if you simply run the launcher through steam. Honestly it's impressive what you can throw at it and it just works (TM).

Only thing to look out for is the installation path when you run installers that way, with all the virtual filesystems and stuff. Haven't encountered a single game that didn't run since the switch, be it pirated, gog or steam

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Good to know, thanks. I'll give it a try as soon as I have some downtime 🙂

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