It is going to cause noticeable micro stutter when gaming, it is most certainly going to disrupt streaming in some fashion due to the copyright protections in place, and that's before the privacy infringements. But they'll probably use it as a selling point for commercial licenses: "Want to keep your information secret? With this $250 license, a PC on the network will be able to have this feature turned off!"
I'm not a fan of Linux for compatibility reasons, but I will remain hopeful that this sort of behavior Microsoft is performing will push people to continue to develop Linux tools.
Linux has better RAM handling than Windows too. Insane how bloated Windows has gotten.
As Windows started making harder and harder to install a new system without cloud account, it was already a turn of for many people. This kind of stuff is just over the top craziness.
I dont think the real concern atleast for me is the micro-performance issues, but rather the privacy concerns. Yeah, they claim its on your computer only, but then if there is an exploit that causes some random hacker to access this info, they will know everything there is to know about you.
As for Linux, its getting infiltrated as well - both by corporate open source developers and malicious in dependant developers alike. My Ubuntu wants to update itself more frequently than the Windows, but at least I can turn it off (for now at least). But its getting to the point that soon I will have to switch to a distro where everything is built locally from source so I have full control.
With micro stuttering, it depends on what you're doing. I have an RTX 4090 because I game on my rig even though I spend most of my nights painting nowadays, and I am sensitive to the micro stutter.
On the other hand, when I had installed a Linux fork, one of the more popular and robust gaming ones -- Nobara -- I had a ton of compatibility issues due to drivers not being functional for my GPU at the time, which combined with a lot of weird problems relating to Wayland, which IIRC was the only way to get VRR working on Linux at the time.
For my use case, Linux has a ways to go but it's also gotten way better over the years. When I build a secondary PC for workstation purposes, it will likely be for Linux.
I would also advise as many people learn to navigate Linux as possible. It's not that bad with things like KDE Plasma.
Yeah, Linux is not going to protect you but at least you don't give implicit consent to Windows ToS to spy on you, right? I feel that means something.
It's not gonna go over well for most people.
It is going to cause noticeable micro stutter when gaming, it is most certainly going to disrupt streaming in some fashion due to the copyright protections in place, and that's before the privacy infringements. But they'll probably use it as a selling point for commercial licenses: "Want to keep your information secret? With this $250 license, a PC on the network will be able to have this feature turned off!"
I'm not a fan of Linux for compatibility reasons, but I will remain hopeful that this sort of behavior Microsoft is performing will push people to continue to develop Linux tools.
Linux has better RAM handling than Windows too. Insane how bloated Windows has gotten.
As Windows started making harder and harder to install a new system without cloud account, it was already a turn of for many people. This kind of stuff is just over the top craziness.
I dont think the real concern atleast for me is the micro-performance issues, but rather the privacy concerns. Yeah, they claim its on your computer only, but then if there is an exploit that causes some random hacker to access this info, they will know everything there is to know about you.
As for Linux, its getting infiltrated as well - both by corporate open source developers and malicious in dependant developers alike. My Ubuntu wants to update itself more frequently than the Windows, but at least I can turn it off (for now at least). But its getting to the point that soon I will have to switch to a distro where everything is built locally from source so I have full control.
With micro stuttering, it depends on what you're doing. I have an RTX 4090 because I game on my rig even though I spend most of my nights painting nowadays, and I am sensitive to the micro stutter.
On the other hand, when I had installed a Linux fork, one of the more popular and robust gaming ones -- Nobara -- I had a ton of compatibility issues due to drivers not being functional for my GPU at the time, which combined with a lot of weird problems relating to Wayland, which IIRC was the only way to get VRR working on Linux at the time.
For my use case, Linux has a ways to go but it's also gotten way better over the years. When I build a secondary PC for workstation purposes, it will likely be for Linux.
I would also advise as many people learn to navigate Linux as possible. It's not that bad with things like KDE Plasma.
Yeah, Linux is not going to protect you but at least you don't give implicit consent to Windows ToS to spy on you, right? I feel that means something.
MX KDE is the one for me, Waydroid android installs on it very easily.