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Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet (www.neowin.net)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Support for product activation has moved online.

Linux is this way, guys.

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[–] v0rld@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Not judging, just curious.

What games are those? In the last 12 months I tried 151 games on Linux. All of them worked, only 6 required tinkering.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The fact they mentioned "anti cheat", it's going to be your modern online multiplayer games. It's going to be games like Fortnite, PUBG, Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc.

[–] glog78@digitalcourage.social -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

@ipkpjersi @v0rld

I would still like to know which and why. Usually there are alternatives out even for those multiplayer games. Example -> all the Valve Games / Blizards Games are good too ;)

[–] octoham@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

sadly most online mp games have kernel-level anti-cheat that doesn't run on linux

[–] glog78@digitalcourage.social -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@octoham

i can't agree with this general statement. i guess it's important to understand that a lot of the multiplayer games you wanna currently play have some kind of protection which makes it currently not suitable to run on linux.

just to give a different view mp games which currently seem to work ( checked protondb ):
- Eldenring Nightreign
- Dark and Darker (used to work)
- Helldivers & Helldivers 2
- Arc Raiders
- Counter Strike
- Overwatch
- DOOM in very different versions
- Quake Live
- Hunt Showdown 1896
- Dead by Daylight
- Warframe

with all respect for the games you currently love so much, please don't make general statements.

A personal advice i want to give: Only change to linux if you are also willing to change yourself and adapt. Linux is not Windows like, Mac OS is not Windows , like a Playstation is not a XBOX or a Switch.

[–] octoham@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i know a lot of the mp games i play have an anti-cheat that doesn't support linux, i'm blaming the AC devs here, not linux.

as for my general statement, i used this handy little website: https://areweanticheatyet.com/

note how i said most mp games w anti-cheat can't run on linux. i think 59% qualifies as 'most'.

i'm rlly not sure why you're so defensive here ngl, i love linux. i use linux on one of my pcs for development, i'm not attacking linux in any way.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Sure, there are alternatives for the games I listed, but if all your friends are playing any of the games I listed, you don't have many options for Linux outside of something like Shadow or GeForce Now, which admittedly is a pretty solid option for online-only games if you live near their servers.

[–] mp04610@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I recently found a neat list of games that don't work due to Anti-Cheat:

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

So it's probably one of the ~700 games.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Awesome find.

Looking at the first 4 pages, you'd have to pay me to play the "denied" games.

I'm not missing a damn thing. :D

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You must not play most of the top 5 fps games then lol.

Literally everything a "normal" gamer plays is not supported on linux.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Normal gamers don't just play FPS lol

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeahh they do. 90% of kids with a ps5 wanna play bf6 and pubg etc type games. And if a normie even thinks of gamer they think of fortnite bf and cod.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We're talking about Windows vs Linux, not consoles. A normie will think of roblox, which blows all consoles as well as steam/EPIC/etc out of the water.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not the original commenter, but for me it's Arc Raiders. I'm a fan of extraction shooters and have been messing with the idea of fully switching to Linux and ditching microslop completely, aaaaaaand then Arc Raiders was released

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 7 points 7 months ago

i'm a linux gamer and can personally confirm arc raiders works on my machine 👍

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Arc Raiders

Arc Raiders has Platinum status on Linux, meaning it works extremely well under Linux. What problem are you having with it?