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They all offer a DX9 render path. The question is: how well do those games run? I dearly hope that with Steam OS, game devs will open up more toward Linux.
I don’t know.
Games can be tested on appdb.winehq.org but those results are only for the pure wine. staging and nine are fairly new and not well spread yet.
In my opinion, if a DX9 game runs at all, it runs very well. But there may be problems with NVidia cards.
Space. The final frontier.
I had never heard about security problems with Windows 10. Now, when I dual-boot a second OS and upgrade to Windows 10, I will try the Destroy-Windows-10-Spying technique. Thanks!
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
It’s not a security problem, Chessking, it’s a privacy problem. Everyone responds differently to that, and there are folks who don’t give a damn about those issues. For me, however, it’s a no-go.
It’s not a security problem, Chessking, it’s a privacy problem.
That’s what I meant. I would rather not be subject to things like that if at all possible.
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
All of the data-gathering privacy-threatening stuff you guys are talking about? I asked my brother about it (he’s a tech wiz) and he says that Microsoft took it all out. It was only in the Technical Preview, however, they never told people when they removed it.
The last fifty times in a row that I questioned his knowledge about all things electronic, I ended up looking pretty stupid. As far as I can tell, he’s not joking.
Still, if someone can find a counter-example, I’d love to rub it in his face. :whistle:–IronDuke
I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. 🙂I certainly hope he’s right.
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
[quote=”IronDuke” post=20000]I asked my brother about it (he’s a tech wiz) and he says that Microsoft took it all out.[/quote]
That is absolutely not true. Microsoft is still doing a lot of stuff, like tracking your location by default or sending your contacts all to the cloud if you want to use Cortana.
One of the most criticized features is WiFi Sense, which shares your Wi-Fi password with all of your contacts (thus, uploading it to the cloud – very secure).
The default settings send a lot of your data to Cortana. I can understand why, but I don’t want Cortana to know what I’m searching for or who the people I know are.
Even if you turn off all the privacy related settings you can find, there are still connections to various domains from Microsoft being made. Do you really know what they’re transferring there?
If they “took it all out” there would be no network traffic after turning all of the features off.
Space. The final frontier.
I can only agree to that. IronDuke, the only article I could show you right away is in German, so that would be of little use for you. However, unless your brother means that Windows 10 offers privacy through the use of a spykiller software, he is clearly mistaken.
If they “took it all out” there would be no network traffic after turning all of the features off.
A very good point.
IronDuke, the only article I could show you right away is in German, so that would be of little use for you.
I believe IronDuke has mentioned before knowing a little German. in addition, I have started learning German. I’d like to see it even to just see how well I can understand it.
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
[quote=”schmatzler” post=20002][quote=”IronDuke” post=20000]I asked my brother about it (he’s a tech wiz) and he says that Microsoft took it all out.[/quote]
That is absolutely not true. Microsoft is still doing a lot of stuff, like tracking your location by default or sending your contacts all to the cloud if you want to use Cortana.
One of the most criticized features is WiFi Sense, which shares your Wi-Fi password with all of your contacts (thus, uploading it to the cloud – very secure).
The default settings send a lot of your data to Cortana. I can understand why, but I don’t want Cortana to know what I’m searching for or who the people I know are.
Even if you turn off all the privacy related settings you can find, there are still connections to various domains from Microsoft being made. Do you really know what they’re transferring there?
If they “took it all out” there would be no network traffic after turning all of the features off.[/quote]
Rubbing-in-face initialized… stand by for indignant reply from elder brother…
–IronDuke
I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. 🙂
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