HW News - Microsoft Keeps Ruining Windows, Valve Lawsuit, '4090' in the 4070 Ti Super

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Microsoft is shoving automatic OneDrive uploads into Windows installs with an online user account, Valve is getting sued -- perhaps due to a misunderstanding -- for almost one billion US dollars, and the RTX 4090 GPU rejects find their way into the 4070 Ti Super.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Recapping 2 Weeks
00:58 - Lawsuit vs Valve Seems Odd
04:50 - Microsoft Charged with Breaching Antitrust Rules
07:05 - Microsoft Automatically Uploads Files to OneDrive
09:47 - RTX 4070 Ti Super GPUs Based on AD102
13:26 - NVIDIA Market Cap Declines Half a Trillion
15:43 - Hori Wireless Steam Controllers
16:42 - Patent Reveals Xbox Keystone
19:38 - Arctic Releases M2 Pro SSD Cooler
20:45 - Minisforum Releases UM890 Pro PC
22:18 - Valve Releases Steam Game Recording Beta
23:56 - Rumor: Billions Spent on Unplayed Steam Games
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[@GamersNexus]

This one got a little delayed since we ended up focusing on all those reviews last week (NH-D15 G2, Thermalright AIO, & Antec case), but also because of this Zotac story: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3nbgnZvatismZI You can catch the Noctua G2 review here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npbVmod6jK6IaMk And the Antec C8 case review here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3ukomV-apd0aKM

[@Av-vd3wk]

Get a haircut, Hippie.

[@robertlawrence9000]

It would be interesting to see if those 4070 Ti Supers could have higher performance than the older versions. Would be interesting to see if even overclocking would have any significant differences.

[@BlackRedDead1943]

preventing monopolis isn't odd, it's for our all good! - as much i don't like the alternatives to valve due to their lack of service (not that there isn't much to be desired at valve still, and IMHO they pumping funds into developing the wrong things - but it's a business afterall and improvements doesn't sale as good as new features, regardless if they are actually usefull or not!), but even if we assume Valve is still run by gamers at heart, one day it might not anymore, and when the Suits take over, we really don't want valve to be the only player left in the game, or we pay much much more for it's "services"! Also, exclusivity deals suck, regardless on wich side they are! - devs should be free to release under their terms and conditions, not that of third party platforms that just sell their products! a 30% cut is pretty hefty already, i don't think that's right, and i already use GoG for most of my SP games whenever i can get them there on sale, but sadly Steam is the best option out there when it comes to coop and MP - so i still stick with it for those games - remember, we created this situation, only we can change it aswell! - buy from devs directly if possible and you really loving their game, take your chances even if it may cost a few cents or even a few bucks more - but it's okay to hunt sales, given how profitable the market got and given that some purchase is still better than no purchase/pirating, and the fact it's THEIR offer (and not our obligation to question it's profitability, but also not our right to demand anything - if you like their offer take it, if not, leave it - simple as that, and if taken seriously, shit like denuvo would show in revenue loss! ;-) - just stop buying shit until they react and remove it!) Anyway, thanks for reporting about it, despite the "odd" phrasing -.-# Thanks for your time & efforts, have a good one (^.^)-d Edit: oh, and to add perspective - i own and like my steamdeck, despite it's issues, it's still the best of it's kind available! ;-) for a company that spies on us, i even trust valve a bit more than google, simply because their interests are much clearer and privacy scandals have to be searched and aren't the norm - still, brave new world we live in, let's home no nefarious powers will ever take over (appart from the paranoid freedom agencys ofc - wake up, we're not that far from the mighty dragon as we are made to believe.)

[@christ.4977]

Europe has a cash cow. Just pull the "monopoly" lever and get money. What a joke! At what point is this just an attack on American companies?

[@dark_matt3r_]

@@GamersNexus *_Delays_* … *_Noctua_* … checks out.

[@Lishtenbird]

It's becoming increasingly difficult to install Windows with a local-only account. I have to wonder how soon Microsoft will "fix" the OOBE workaround because its existence was... ah yes, "confusing" for some users.

[@GamersNexus]

Definitely worried about that. The OOBE workaround is what we use for the test systems here!

[@Linda-]

@@GamersNexus Ventoy or Rufus allow you to create an image that has the bypass automatically activated, meaning you're still able to create a local account without issues - another workaround is inputting bogus info for the microsoft-account login field, after which it will error out and allow you to create an offline account too

[@WIImotionmasher]

If Microsoft does destroy local installs, hey maybe Linux will get testing tools enough to just use it to benchmark hardware. We don't actually need Windows performance, just relative performance. That'd be funny for Microsoft.

[@Lishtenbird]

​@@Linda-AFAIR Microsoft disabled the "incorrect email" workaround a couple months ago.

[@Linda-]

@@Lishtenbird i used it not too long ago iirc, but they mightve patched it inbetween - anyways, using rufus or ventoy to create an image that has offline account creation enabled by default still works (and probably always will)

[@mrnicktoyou]

My neighbour brought me her laptop because it was out of space to save files. I looked at it and it was saving everything to OneDrive and it was asking her to pay in order to upgrade for more space. Meanwhile, her 1 terrabyte hard drive was just sitting there empty. This was last year.

[@brunos7995]

Ahahah... that one is a classic.... as a self-employed pc technician, about 30% of my interventions are turning turning off /uninstall One-Drive. What a bunch of scammers.

[@kaihekoareichwein9392]

That doesn't make sense. Anything on One drive is already on local storage.

[@EchoCian]

This happened the last time I had to reinstall Windows due to a hardware update, and trying to get it fixed was an unnecessarily confusing mess that might have been the second most frustrating thing I've had to figure out (after the times Windows overwrote admin permissions with TrustedInstaller) because changing the defaults somehow didn't work the same as normally changing defaults. No, Microsoft, I do NOT want you to bypass the actual storage I actually bought to try to trick me into paying you instead. I'm getting so close to just going to Linux.

[@Pheonixco]

@@kaihekoareichwein9392 He saying she's ran out of space, likely One Drive popped up a warning telling her that she needed to purchase more space, and she interpreted as she needed more hard drive space.

[@okachobe1]

@@Pheonixco He is saying that if it is in one drive that it is on her local drive as well, I don't believe it works that way though, the cloud drive will sometimes have duplicate stuff that the local drive has but not all of it will exist in both spaces so you can have a full cloud drive without a full local drive.

[@wewliusevola]

Most "Opt Out" Windows options seem to have a habit of turning themselves back on.

[@moffichu9150]

cortana

[@weskirkland5850]

Ever medium size update or bigger.

[@tsjeriAu]

About Onedrive 07:05, I've had a shit experience too regarding unauthorised uploads. For reference, I use Windows 10 on a local account. Couple years back when I started taking online classes in Infosec, part of the perks of the school was a 1TB Onedrive allowance (along with access to the various Microsoft office tools, VMWare, etc). I figured it could be a good idea to have Onedrive sync the folder I use for school stuff, and ONLY that folder. Booted up Onedrive and started configuring. They had set it to automatically select all the folders in Documents (like video, music, etc) so I deselected those, then navigated to the folder with my school stuff, and selected ONLY that folder. Lo and behold, Onedrive didn't give a shit and just uploaded all the content in those folders anyway. Bear in mind, Onedrive said it would SYNC the contents between Onedrive and my PC, which means the data will be accessible AT BOTH LOCATIONS. Apparently, Microsoft thinks that "synchronise" means "upload everything to the cloud and remove from the local PC". Then I had to wait for it to fully upload - because of course I couldn't just cancel it - then download everything again AFTER I had to disable and completely remove Onedrive from starting because OF COURSE once I had downloaded the data once, it would just automatically upload everything once more... Onedrive is absolute trash and does not even do what it says on the tin, I will forever and always dissuade people from using it. Microsoft seems to be hell-bent on making Windows and its programs and offerings so trash that I will be switching to Linux before Win10 support ends.

[@-Blue-_]

just say you don't know how to uninstall OneDrive

[@dbbz1002]

I'd never even opened my onedrive and it yoinked all my shit, took hours to get it off of there 😮

[@thebeber2546]

I also had much of a problem with one drive. I just ended up saving my most important files to an external drive and nuking my Windows install. I now run EndeavorOS and I‘m very happy with it.

[@MasterMask14]

​@@-Blue-_in my experience it turned on automatically and yoinked everything in documents and then when it ran out of space (without me ever doing anything and even telling it to stop "syncing") it told me to delete stuff to cut down on storage space or pay for more space. Not everyone is a power user who knows to download 3rd party software to delete Microsoft's bloatware garbage. No one should need to. Even if you do the next update you get its back anyways. L take

[@ThisIsEssKah]

the first windows i installed myself was windows 2000, and i dont remember when the Documents/User folder manifested in its current philosophy and form. But i have never understood why i should store data there, never used it. Interesting so see how scummy MS is with "unintentionally" mishandling user data on all fronts.

[@DerKomischeTyp]

Funny how companies always get sued for hurting other companies but they never get sued for hurting the customers

[@cybershocked]

Companies have a lot more resources. The law is still inaccessible for reason of cost. Some take advantage of that, doing something illegal and just makes it costly to prove otherwise.

[@billpii6314]

and you're wrong

[@jmmywyf4lyf]

Class action lawsuits? Customers have sued companies into oblivion, and have made companies worse for everyone.. Raising prices, warning labels on everything, baby proofing life, etc.. Wtf are you talking about???

[@miloradowicz]

Factually and verifiably untrue.

[@nohs8776]

Are you blind?????? Ticketmaster is being sued by the DOJ for their practices, apple is getting sued by both the EU and the US govt for their predatory practices and that's just talking about the current big ones. There's a literal fucking class of lawsuit whenever a company fucks over a big chunk of their customers!!! And whenever a company fucks over somebody their PR team works in full force to make it seem like nothing happened, look at the McDonald's coffee lawsuit!

[@TC2290-wh5cb]

The worst thing about what MS is doing is how awful Teams is.

[@GamersNexus]

My favorite is when multi-billion (or trillion) dollar companies use Teams for press briefings and inevitably have technical difficulties with it.

[@noticiasinmundicias]

I'd like to highlight that it's never been a better time to switch to Linux. Particularly now that there are excellent alternatives to the Adobe Suite (Affinity, etc), and Proton (including the many different non-Valve forks), I know that this has been said to DEATH throughout the decades, but it really is true this time. I swear.

[@mattweller]

I love people who somehow try to make the argument that Teams is a better product than Zoom.

[@CreativityNull]

As far as I can tell, all of the corporate communication solutions are awful in some way. WebEx in my experience has constant issues (and a worse desktop UI than teams IMO) and Zoom has security problems. BTW, before someone says "DISCORD1!!1!!!!111!" Discord is not a corporate communication solution. The stuff you say and do on Discord is not private or even guaranteed to be private. They do not cater to businesses in any way, so there are many features a business would need that aren't available.

[@falxonPSN]

​@@noticiasinmundiciasThat's a great statement for anyone who doesn't use their computer for work. But the reality is that's simply not going to happen for most work computers.

[@harrybryan9633]

Re: 19 billion spent on unplayed Steam games I've done my part; On the other hand, I am slowly working through my back log. On the 3rd hand, (As Lt. Arex would say) - everytime there is a major sale, all of my hard work on lowering my backlog of games goes out the window.

[@plebisMaximus]

I know for a fact I will never play The Witcher, but how can I not buy them all when they're that cheap?

[@EhNothing]

@@plebisMaximus we would literally lose money not to buy them, I am right there with you....

[@lmcgregoruk]

Well I started playing some games I had on Steam that I hadn't played yet. Then again those were ones I bought in the current 2024 summer sale so... Probably should of started playing some of the older games I hadn't played yet instead of spending more money on more games...

[@IncognitoActivado]

@@plebisMaximus Piracy is the way.

[@jamesm.2322]

I found this to be the more interesting part of the episode. It makes me wanna catalog my steam library (over 400 titles, maybe 40-50 played, 10 or so actually complete) and run a valuation against that. most of my library comes from free steam give aways, humble bundle, friends trading random codes things like that. But during the sales I do buy bundles here and there because the pricing is slow low sometimes it feels bad not to.

[@kotwin]

One of the cool thing things regarding Steam Game Recording is that it drops timeline pins when you get an achievement or take a screenshot - makes it pretty easy to navigate multi-hour footage

[@stevewalker9870]

They also have the ability to drop your own markers (without needing to screenshot) which is very handy As usual, Valve is cementing themselves as the most unsh**ty tech company

[@Gramini]

IIRC they also have/plan to have an API that games can use to also place those markers. So when a game thinks something special happened, you have a marker there. That sounds quite amazing.

[@jeffb.6642]

I had to use the OOBE bypass command to finish setting up a computer I built this weekend. Windows didn't have a driver for the built-in WiFi, and the machine had no access to an Ethernet connection. Would have been stuck, had I not been able to use this command to finish the install. At which point I had to download the WiFi driver on another machine and use a USB to get it onto the one I was building. What a bunch of bullshit. Whoever makes these decisions at Microsoft really needs to give their heads a shake.

[@nighthound2714]

I had to do the exact same thing a few months ago after building a new PC. I didn't know about the OOBE command and learned about it after searching. Microsoft needs to allow driver installation from inside the OOBE.

[@tedhodge4830]

Lol, I had the same problem with a fresh Dell laptop on a base 22H2 install, it didn't recognize the built in NIC, so I had to use a USB NIC to even get it to boot into the OS. Fortunately it wasn't a problem with the Dell image, but still. If they're going to require an internet connection, they should probably include proper wifi and ethernet drivers.

[@AdapG]

@@tedhodge4830 I set one up recently and didn't have to do the command surprisingly they might've changed it recently.

[@TomJacobW]

Hey, downloading wifi drivers on another machine to get an OS installed: I needed to do that with Debian on a 12 year old apple MacBook - cool to hear Microsoft finally has reached the year 2012! 🥳🥳🥳

[@jeffb.6642]

@@tedhodge4830 "it didn't recognize the built in NIC, so I had to use a USB NIC to even get it to boot into the OS." I've had to do that several times, too. I keep a USB NIC handy for just such a thing, but it looks like I'm also going to have to buy a cheap USB WiFi adapter (one that Windows has built in drivers for) for the times when I only have access to WiFi.

[@MrPuschel]

Recently installed a new Windows 11, didn't notice it at first. Not only did Windows, by default, upload the content of my Downloads folder, but it also masked that the Downloads folder was, in fact, the OneDrive folder. By giving it the User/Downloads name in the address bar but also the local folder icon. It's bizarre that someone thought this was good behavior.

[@GOPRepubliklan]

From a sales perspective, it's genius. They didn't get to be richest company in the world by building products people actually want to use.

[@falsemcnuggethope]

Downloads folder is meant to be cleaned periodically anyway since that's where random files that can be downloaded again end up in. Saving those in cloud makes no sense. For documents folder etc. it probably makes sense to map the local folder to the onedrive folder if you're into using onedrive.

[@Labotohs]

Had an awful experience with it early this year. After installing W11 I went to onedrive to specifically tell it not to upload any folder. Well, turns out when I restarted my pc all the user folders (documents, pictures, downloads and such) were flagged as onedrive folders and it uploaded what was in them. It took me half an hour at least to notice and my reflex was to rage... well besides that, to quickly go to its settings and flag those folders as not being cloud folders yet again. Well, that instantly nuked the folders and I had to get some stuff set up again. At least it was a completely new build but I've been wondering since them if I was the only one who went through that. Now I guess I got my answer.

[@itznotmytube]

Oh can Downloads be added to OneDrive now? I set it up for ppl all the time at work and it was always an extra step to remember to copy the Downloads folder from their old computer into their OneDrive-linked Documents folder so that the files would sync over, cuz most of them use Downloads as "Documents2". :D It'll make things a bit more convenient if so. 🐧

[@WeekdayWeekend]

1:51 how dare Valve make sure Steam is the best option for its customers

[@rubo111]

I have been using Linux Distros for the past 20 years. Was dual booting till about 7 years ago, but now solely Linux. I understand gaming options might be a bit difficult, but it is not like it used to be. I play quite a few games thanks to projects like Proton, which has allowed me to play Witcher 3, Total War, etc.

[@lmcgregoruk]

I think that was ONE of the major reasons for Linux on the Desktop not really being a thing, lack of gaming support, I mean sure there was Wine and Crossover (which was paid/commercial) , but now Valve has Proton (basically partially crossover but with Steam being the shell and also FREE) there's a lot more compatible games and for FREE.

[@delscoville]

Interesting that a LAW FIRM would bring up the charging of 30% when the most common cut a law firm gets for it's work is 33%.

[@TomJacobW]

@@RicochetForcealso what‘s the cut (cr)apple takes in their AppStore?

[@hubertnnn]

@@TomJacobW 30%, it was in the video

[@Gulyus]

Worse yet, the "price parity agreement" is only for...steam keys. Not Epic or GoG or any other website / store.

[@GGP337]

All of these companies including law firms are screwing us, we shouldn't pick one to bootlick just because the other is slightly worse. 30% from developers for having a monopoly where their running costs are probably tiny in comparison is way too much because it's a monopoly. Nor should anyone bootlick steam because they like a company and it's CEO Gaben like a friend, like people did with Tesla.

[@tim3172]

@@TomJacobW I'm sorry to hear that you can't afford the Apple device you are obsessing over. Might I suggest getting a job?

[@redring4083]

That lawsuit against Steam is utter crap. Xbox, Nintendo, PlayStation, Google, Apple, GOG, EA, etc. all take a 30% cut. Epic takes a 12% cut but that is never passed on to the customer so the whole commission thing is utter bullshit. Ubisoft charges the same amount for their games on Ubisoft Connect that they do on Steam and Epic. Further proof that no benefit is passed on to the customer.

[@EyeofValor]

EPIC gives out free games all the time as well.

[@No-mq5lw]

And publishers can just conjure up their own storefront or distribution network on their own. But then your marketing takes a dive, and you are forced to contend with whatever you can to keep your infrastructure up.

[@kemaldemirel1714]

@@No-mq5lw I wonder why companies own distribution network is never cheaper than steam. I smell something there.

[@redring4083]

​@@EyeofValorand your point is? Epic gives out free games to attract users. Once they get a large user base they will stop that. Plus that 12% cut is a marketing gimmick. They will switch back to 30% once they have enough users. Any game purchased on Epic, the publishers do not pass on the benefits of the lower cut to the customer.

[@CreativityNull]

Not to mention that Steam can't (and actively doesn't in the case of the steam deck) restrict you from buying games from other sources (like Epic). They even have support for organizing them in your library, which if they were going to go full anti-consumer they would not do. This is something everybody in your list (except GoG) restricts you from doing, or in Google's case makes it not very friendly. So yeah, sure, it's a great job to go after the least offensive big player in the industry, thus cementing the others' bad practices since you've now created a situation where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Great job. /s

[@cue5223]

3:52 Casually throwing shades at youtube, haha

[@coastalcrown8421]

New follower here. But gotta say the running timeline of what news at what time at the left is awesome!

[@KTSN-A]

Seriously what is up with teams? My workplace 'upgraded' to the enterprise version of teams and it is complete garbage, constantly crashing when joining meetings, updating DURING meetings forcing you to re-open it, crashing when leaving meetings, microphone not registering, webcam being completely black, glitchy presence detection etc. The non-enterprise version was insanely stable and had decent integration with the rest of the stack we use on my team.

[@tedhodge4830]

Check if you are on Windows N version. If you are, check if you have the Windows Media Feature Pack installed. If you do, update all your drivers including your video card drivers and integrated graphics drivers if you have them.

[@docontra4921]

I've been using teams enterprise for a weekly meeting (~5-8 endpoints) for about a month now with a less-than-ideal internet connection, and it's been OK (not **quite** as good as zoom but plenty good enough). If allowed by your workplace, try to use Teams from within your (chromium-based) browser or from an app like Ferdi/Ferdium[1]; I've only had to deal with some audio device selection jank on that setup. [1]: Either of those is an Electron[2] app that lets you consolidate most chat/e-mail/similar services on one app; with systray and notification support. [2]: A GUI toolkit for JavaScript/AJAX apps based on a gutted chromium. AFAIK, all versions of the teams desktop app are built on top of Electron, so you shouldn't even lose functionality.

[@stevecole90099]

The issue is that Teams isn't an app, its a website pretending to be an app like Spotify. These types of "apps" hurt users and limit functionality just so the company can hire cheaper and less experienced developers.

[@DizzyAndHigh]

Also screen sharing being a coinflip as to whether it will bork itself or not.

[@KTSN-A]

@@DizzyAndHigh Yeah, I've had a coworker encounter that

[@thescepticblock]

I'm fairly certain automatic uploads to onedrive has been there for a while, there's been countless times where a few of my friends and family couldn't do anything with their MS accounts because their onedrives got full so quick. I had to help them get rid of onedrive completely from their systems and clear their cloud storages so they could use their accounts again. It's just so annoying for windows to back up your things to the internet behind your back and have the audacity to lock you out of your own account when it attempts to back up more than their limit and try to charge you for more cloud space.

[@tedhodge4830]

OneDrive is a nightmare when you reach the cloud storage limit. For some reason we insist on 1 TB drives on all our laptops but then limit OneDrive to 500GB. Causes problems a lot, especially for older employees who have been around for a while.

[@heroninja1125]

It is unfortunate that google drive seems to be the only cloud storage that doesn't have extremely aggressive syncing mechanisms. Even dropbox for example, you put a file in the dropbox designated folder and it will fully upload the entirety of the file regardless of whether it exceeds your limits or not. Sometimes just for the fun of it, dropbox copies all the files on your computer which eats up cloud space, and you can't even delete the files off of dropbox because it will detect that its not "synced" and will just refill itself again. Which causes it to charge you more money when it goes over the limit.

[@shaneeslick]

When I do a fresh install first thing I go to OneDrive settings & uncheck "Start Automatically with Windows" & then Exit OneDrive, so it never gets a chance to collect any Data.

[@cal2127]

its just straight extortion at this point

[@-Blue-_]

why you guys don't uninstall OneDrive ??

[@Imsosappy]

Half of my steam library is from humble bundles where I only wanted 1 or 2 games. That would make a large portion of my library valued at $3-$5.

[@guardian0740]

The format you guys use for your videos, including things like time-stamps, progress bar for time for the current segment, and direct facts instead of opinions, is the best format I've seen for any news channel - hardware related or otherwise. Thanks guys for all the time you put into these things.

[@jonb695]

On the value of unplayed steam games; I would also point out that steam hasn't always tracked play time(started 2009). I have a number of games on my account that I finished but show no play time. Notably Half-life 2 and its episodes.

[@bricaaron3978]

I'm surprised you're willing to admit that you haven't played Half-Life 2 in at least fifteen years, and have only played it once!

[@justanoman6497]

Most of mine came from Humble bundle. Each bundle contains like one or two game I want to play, but it's often cheaper than buying the game outright so...

[@Shadow0fd3ath24]

​@@bricaaron3978i put 200 hours each into elden ring and Lego SW Skywalker saga and both show under 20 hours

[@bricaaron3978]

@@justanoman6497 For that reason I have a bunch of keys from Humble Bundle, Fanatical, etc. that I've never activated in years.

[@SuperTort0ise]

8:17 I love that installing windows requires more terminals than Linux now. Thanks MS!

[@tedhodge4830]

It's literally one command in command prompt And it's not during the installation process, it's during the out of box experience (OOBE) because they won't let you into the OS until you sign in

[@Rastloese]

Damnit.... My rationale for staying on windows is getting chopped at.

[@MazeFrame]

@@tedhodge4830 Yes, one command, and Linux Mint requires 0 to install.

[@SuperTort0ise]

@@tedhodge4830 You can install many a distro without _any_ commands, 1 is more than 0, and IDC if it's during the oobe instead of install, that literally doesn't matter because as you say you can't use it without going through that. but fine, here: I love that installing (and setting up) windows requires more terminal usage than a lot of Linux distros now*. Thanks MS! *You can bypass it by modifying the ISO so it'll take the same amount aka none. Is that better, do you approve of this version of my joke? Edit: And it's not actually signing in it's making a user account and then signing in, if you skipped it completely you wouldn't have one. 🤓

[@connivingkhajiit]

@tedhodge4830 damn that's one more command than I used during my Mint install (zero).

[@jerryknudsen7898]

Steams 30% cut doesn't look so bad when they've sort of done the leg work for allowing games to be played on platforms the Devs didn't dedicate any time to making it for. This argument may have been weak many years ago but with the success of the steam deck and Linux's growing popularity (thank you Microsoft), games don't really require native linux support so heavily...although it would be nice. It's a unique advantage that justifies the 30% vs Epics 12% costs imo.

[@Meditations2024]

Sometimes law firms seek out situations that do not benefit the consumer so much as it benefits the law firm so long as they can get a ruling in their favor.

[@Playingwith3D]

I already sorted out my one drive trying to steal all my data. It wasn't easy to do either. Recall is their second attempt at industrial data scrapping and theft.

[@Javierm0n0]

When i first installed windows everything was going to one drive and i only found out because i put 10gigs of files in and my c drive didnt change capacity. It's bs.

[@Playingwith3D]

@@Javierm0n0 I found out by wanting to do a backup to one drive and finding out it was already full. I was like what the hell?

[@dingleberries360]

You just uninstall one drive lmao

[@CoreyKearney]

Not having it installed seems to work.

[@Ryzza5]

I had manually moved my files to OneDrive years ago lol. Maybe I'll change to proton drive.

[@LegacyIvyTerascale]

8:04 Steve's Windows installation advice

[@silent_reaper999]

❤

[@dingleberries360]

You dont even need to reinstall windows to do it. Why didnt he just say that?

[@THE-X-Force]

@@dingleberries360 How does that work, please?

[@Freyar]

The whole thing about unplayed games is silly since Steam failed to record playtime for a good while for a number of mine. I know I've played a game on Steam, yet because it was very early in Steam's life it reports no activity. The article is made on a lot of assumptions too.

[@Kaemble]

Linux starts to seem more and more attractive as Microsoft keeps pushing "features" nobody asked for into Windows. Thanks Steve!

[@1pcfred]

Linux has features no one asks for too and sometimes they are hard to avoid.

[@Kaemble]

@@1pcfred Such as?

[@1pcfred]

@@Kaemble systemd and wayland.

[@Gramini]

@@1pcfred A service manager and a modern display protocol that works more in tandem of how modern hardware works both sound quite useful.

[@1pcfred]

@@Gramini I don't want my windowing environment to manage anything beyond the GUI. I have no problem with how X handles my hardware either. But the hardware I have is not the latest or the greatest. It still works just fine for me though.

[@noticiasinmundicias]

"More frightening though, it's set to release on October 31st" Took me a second to understand but I nearly choked lol

[@TheKeule33]

I don't get it?

[@0Blueaura]

what does that mean?

[@octavia8836]

Halloween dumdums

[@LiLBitsDK]

@@0Blueaura Halloween?

[@Maverrick2140]

@@LiLBitsDK lol ty .. germany here .. we dont follow that tradition here .. so i was clueless to the significance of that date ^^

[@5Komma5]

I'll run Windows 10 as long as it will be usable. Then it will be back to Linux for my every day system. Just like it was before Windows 7. Don't want a MS account and no Ai tied to any big corp. I can run my stuff locally. 7:05 why no corp can be trusted with your private data.

[@BassDude-wb9ic]

Imagine storing private data on a computer...

[@defaultdan7923]

⁠@@BassDude-wb9icnot too bad an idea if it’s a non windows machine

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Upgrade to 10 LTSC IoT 2021, you will get updates until 2032

[@terranbyte2619]

I should note that microsoft already by default saves files to your onedrive if you have an account, I've had to break onedrive to stop it. And a friend lost all his footage from playing a game because he was unaware of how Onedrive worked, which is that if your onedrive gets full it will proceed to delete the oldest files on it (which ended up being his footage)

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

TBH the 30% cut could do with being a bit lower, Steam is obscenely profitable so it's pretty clear there's some room to move on that (they could take 25% and still be very profitable for instance)

[@SatoshiAR]

4:00 For anyone curious, KZbin Partners earn 55% off of long form ads (Watch Page ads), 45% off shorts ads, and 70% off Super Thanks and Memberships. So yeah, KZbin takes a rather huge chunk but I guess that's the price of publishing on the 2nd most visited website on the planet for free.

[@aceae4210]

to add to the superchats if your donating on the iphone youtube app, it's apple taking their cut, then youtube so apple takes 30% (70% left) then youtube takes 30%, leaving 49% (0.70*0.70) to the content creator.

[@SatoshiAR]

@@aceae4210 This is correct, which is why you may see some creators (and even companies like Epic Games) asking their fans to make their purchases through the website instead of the app.

[@eskimo4130]

Thanks, always wondered how much google was holding back.

[@StarmenRock]

​@@aceae4210apple takes a cut? Thats gross

[@austinh1028]

@@StarmenRock the cost of 'allowing' KZbin on their store...

[@christopherjames9843]

Whenever I install Windows first thing I do is unplug my ethernet cable.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

A lot of veterans learned that already in the days of Blaster... in some cases the hard way! XD

[@TomJacobW]

Same. I always forget it the first time aaaaand restart it is. Utterly, utterly ridiculous, isn’t it?

[@mjc0961]

That doesn't even work anymore. The last time I installed Windows, the computer had no WiFi and I didn't plug in internet, and it still wouldn't let me finish until I did the OOBE bypass trick.

[@user-ds8rj2vc4v]

I'm getting to the point where my gaming PC will be going to Bazzite in the near future. I'm not interested in Windows - it's just crap. There are only a few games that don't work and those games I'm usually not interested in anyway.

[@mrnicktoyou]

Windows 11 wouldn't let me install unless I had an internet connection. So I went back to Windows 10. Is there a way to bypass that?

[@Nostalgia_Realm]

I mean, about half of my Steam games have gone untouched, but pretty much all of them were either inside of Humble Bundles or cheap gifts. So no loss there for me, and I suspect most people 🤠

[@ChristianStout]

I want to see those small M.2 coolers on 20W M.2 video cards as drop-in upgrades to old laptops. There's millions of old laptops out there with a spare M.2 slot that would benefit from an MX570.

[@hypernova7]

There was a similar suit in Canada I believe. I kept seeing ads for the class action claiming that “you are overpaying for games on Steam”. Which is funny as buying games on Steam is typically the CHEAPEST compared to other platforms (console, physical).

[@babalonkie]

But are Steam/Valve setting the initial value of the game...!? If they are... that's the people you sue... NOT the most expensive. Because IF Steam/Valve are overpricing and are the people everyone is copying... they are the most "guilty" and hitting them will have a ripple effect in law and policy. But i think the detail comes down to how much revenue Steam/Valve is keeping as a retailer... if it's far higher % than things bought in a shop... they are going to have zero defence in the law case. If it's similar or lower... they will win the case.

[@grizzlixx]

@@babalonkieif steam had the lowest overhead and set its prices lower it could then be argued to be undercutting, and i think that argument would actually have something to it. I dont get the whole thing though. Games had been 60 dollars as long as i can remember, and the rest of them seem to follow the standard 30 20 10 5 model. Nothing to it imo

[@babalonkie]

@@grizzlixx A game is a product... if there are laws to protect consumers and manufacturers on products sold in shops... then those same laws should apply to online products. Games on disc used to be regulated by the same rules until they were phased out to additional profit making. It depends on if 30% is normal retail profit in the UK... if it is... then the law suit is garbage. Infact it may even be a false flag attempt to increase the %... as it has come out of the blue. I don't have a direct opinion on this specific suit due to the hastiness and lack of transparency but i do think it's time consumers and manufacturers of digital and online goods start getting the same protections as those found in high street shops.

[@nyro417]

@@babalonkie The price for game are set by the dev/publisher. The price parity thing is so that the sellers don't resell Steam keys on other website for cheaper. Edit : also the Steam cut isn't always 30%. If I remember correctly, after one million sale, the cut is 10 or 15%.

[@grizzlixx]

@@babalonkie who or what is being protected though? the consumer is being protected from paying the same amount of money for the same product as before ? the dev is being protected from paying the same amount to get the same service as before ? it doesnt really matter. games arent even too expensive anyway.

[@sstier48]

I account for about 50% of that $19 billion in unplayed games

[@ZboeC5]

If anything I'd bet money the actual amount is way higher, probably multiples of 19 billion honestly.

[@terrrrmus]

Co-pilot got me to finally fully switch to Linux. Thanks Microsoft! Using NobaraOS with my 4090 and everything runs great since the latest KDE Plasma updates. Highly recommend trying it out if you are sick of Microsoft's crap!

[@dunste123]

I am happy that I switched to linux yesterday. It's a bit of a rocky start but so far it's pretty good

[@mastrtonberry2]

Finally switched over to Linux last week for the first time ever. I have to look up how to do every single thing that I want to do and then look up all the processes in between but I refuse to use Windows 11.

[@1pcfred]

Pro tip: take notes. Just treat every task like a project that you work through step by step. And start a text file for each where you document what you do. Because someday you may want to do it again. Plus just keeping notes helps organize things. Copy paste is so easy in Linux. Leverage that. As soon as you highlight any text it is in your buffer then. None of this right click select copy happy horse crap. A double click nets a word and a triple click the whole line. Middle click is paste. grep is your friend too.

[@nogravitas7585]

KZbin ate my other rambling comment so I'll take it as a sign to be more concise Get proton-ge-custom to use with Steam or wine-ge-custom to use with lutris it will make the transition from windows less painful.

[@mastrtonberry2]

I appreciate the tips. Thanks!

[@M_CFV]

Just use windows LTSC IoT

[@Shadow0fd3ath24]

i have win 10 on a 120gb ssd just so it cant install win 11 no matter what...win 11 makes windows 8 look AMAZING

[@TheHangarHobbit]

I wouldn't be surprised if that number of unplayed games is correct, as between humble bundles, bundle sales, as well as giveaways i have nearly 400 games between platforms and I've played MAYBE 40 or so of them.

[@kanrakucheese]

Another thing to keep in mind, the value of these games is likely based on their sticker price, rather than what they go for on sales.

[@chrisbrazier88]

1136 in Steam and counting... you know, when the next Humble Choice drops

[@dillonvillon]

I don't understand how people buy games and never play them. I've got multiple games I only have a few hours in, but I've played all of them lol

[@rocksfire4390]

@@dillonvillon you think there is just an unlimited amount of time to play? you also got games coming out with updates as well (amazing but leaves even less time for new games). it's actually pretty tough to go and start a new game.

[@NikoJr.]

400 is rookie numbers

[@DivorcedGooseRat]

all i need to move to linux is linux having support to run multiple monitor refresh rates

[@JureRepinc]

So you are all set then, I have multiple monitors and each is having its own refresh rate. Just make sure you use a distribution with KDE Plasma desktop and Wayland graphical system (e.g. openSUSE Tumbleweed or Fedora KDE Spin)

[@Gramini]

That's supposed to be solved with Wayland (a somewhat new and modern way to do display stuff). The latest nVidia driver (555) (not sure if it's still in beta) is also supposed to finally work well with it (due to something called "explicit sync"). Haven't tried it with an nVidia card, but on my laptop with an integrated Intel graphics it works well (3 displays with 60 Hz + 59.97 Hz + 24 Hz).

[@privacyvalued4134]

That Minisforum system's specs aren't bad. However, I've always thought mini PC prices should be somewhere in the $100 to $300 price range: Sip power from the wall to do useful for backoffice tasks that don't need a ton of hardware (i.e. shared network storage, a central backup system, test platform, etc). Tower PCs are for handling the heavy workloads. It's kind of why I'm a bit partial to Beelink at the moment. They've got a bunch of great systems in the ideal price range with Windows preloaded and enough CPU to run everything I need to do. Minisforum is trying to cater to an audience that wants high end processors in the smallest possible package without any other considerations.

[@MasoThings]

I just bought his modmat. This thing is awesome.

[@GamersNexus]

Thank you! Glad you like it!

[@Vladimir_Kv]

The most requested feature about Steam Recorder I can predict will be "multi stream audio" to separate game audio from voice chat, and other audio (like notifications, or music etc).

[@ModestBananana]

8:00 had to pause the video after this helpful installation tip just so I can show my appreciation. Idk how long it’ll last until Microsoft “patches” this workaround out, but it’s well worth a $5 thank you

[@zedvids]

Love these weekly tech segments, from serious to quirky topics.

[@572089]

of all the things to go after MS for in regards to antitrust; it feels as though there are much bigger better targets: such as the entirely of Edge, or the intentional difficulty in switching default apps and the INTENTIONAL UNDOING/REASSIGNING of default apps with FORCED windows updates.

[@kethwintham344]

Including reinstalling and enabling spyware for both microsoft and all their big tech buddies including HP, even if you remove and disable it. Its ridiculously hard to remove by design, too.

[@bibasik7]

It's about time Microsoft gets hit with another antitrust lawsuit!

[@Arshoon]

Like all companies that reach their size, they''l just pay the fine and come up with a different way to try and fuck people over and maximize profit. This is why I don't use Windows, or stock Android. Or any Apple product.

[@InternetStranger476]

They need another Steve Ballmer

[@BAM5636]

Apparently you missed the part where the EU fines every tech company billions over the last 2 decades for sometimes laughable reasons like including a media player with an OS. Where does that money ever go I wonder? Certainly not to consumers they claim they are protecting.

[@tylerfountain1286]

thanks for the update.

[@Anomynous]

"Ruining Windows" took a lot of people figuring that out 10 years late

[@tro_b0t]

I really miss Windows 7 man..

[@cc0767]

last good OS

[@phlogistanjones2722]

I have three machines dedicated to "old games", "old business software" and "utility systems" that run Win7 Pro on pretty recent hardware. With a tiny amount of TLC they should last the rest of my life... decades. I am resistant to having to learn and use Linux as my daily driver but I can and will if MS gets more uppity.

[@sbuuby]

@@phlogistanjones2722with how much youre against MS I think you'd enjoy Linux, I recently switched just to see what its like and was honestly surprised how little of a difference it has been

[@user-ky1jp7ev8b]

You think you miss it, then you install it and use it and you quickly realize all the stuff it's missing and lack of updates. It's great to relive in a VM for an hour or so, but the memories are like memories of old NES and Atari games where when you were a kid, they were awesome, but don't hold up to anything today. Time really changes things.

[@ZboeC5]

@@user-ky1jp7ev8b I use my Windows 10 exactly like I did Windows 7...I don't even know what features I'm missing simply because I don't use any and don't care too. Some of us simply want to watch youtube and play games. My Windows 10 even looks like Windows 7 thanks to classic start menu and other tweaks I use.

[@sinom]

Btw. That horipad steam versions seems to just be a wireless version of the horipad they are already selling world wide, but with added capacitive touch sensors and different button names

[@BryonLape]

My work desktop was updated to Win 11. The decrease in performance is very noticeable, Visual Studio in particular.

[@marsrevolutionary]

30% was the standard set by Nintendo in the 80's for *cartridge based* games to accommodate their proprietary manufacturing process. It does not represent the current software-only games market and hasn't since console games stores happened. 10-15% would be the more reasonable modern equivalent.

[@raute2687]

Nerd talk: Steam recording on the steam deck is VERY interesting to me, given that it appears to be GPU accelerated. Normally, on linux, when using AMD, you want to have the open source drivers that are bundled in the linux kernel, because they generally deliver better performance in gaming than the closed-source AMD drivers, which are designed for producivity tasks. This sadly also means, that all the AMD-specific codecs are also unavailable in the open source drivers, forcing you to basically encode on the CPU even when using high-end AMD GPUs. The steam deck also has this issue, but if steam recording works on it with hardware acceleration, then we might see some change in AMD's driver model. For the better, hopefully. Or the deck just uses hw acc vaapi, which is ass on higher resolutions.

[@JureRepinc]

If you have VA-API properly configured then using opensource AMD drivers you can also use it to encode video with hardware,

[@JureRepinc]

Oh and if some software does not support/use VA-API, but uses only AMD's AMF (Advanced Media Framework) then the latest version 1.4.34 also adds support for the opensource drivers.

[@shaunreich]

​@@JureRepincdoes this work well with eg Sunshine (moonlight)?

[@M_CFV]

@@JureRepinc ...read the last line of his comment?

[@Libra11235]

I find it funny how steam, to the untrained eye seems monopolistic, but in reality it's customer choice rather than unfair competition that keeps their market share so high.

[@plebisMaximus]

There's several alternatives, they just don't give the user a fraction of the value Steam does.

[@matthewevans107]

Then you haven’t been around long enough. Valve did the same trick Google/Alphabet did. When buying PC games at retail was the norm and digital was for indies, Valve offered SteamWorks (DRM/patch management/etc) for free in exchange. As part of that, every purchaser had to create a Steam account. Every Skyrim PC player had to have a Steam account to play the game. You had no choice, if you refused to create a Steam account you couldn’t play Skyrim. Valve got its market share via a “free” product, like Google offered Android to to OEM’s free and then started changing the T&C’s to make the paid for product (Steam Store/Google Play Services) compulsory

[@M_CFV]

Moronic copy paste argument.

[@stitchfinger7678]

@@matthewevans107 Steam required a user acct well before Skyrim came out wtf are you on about

[@matthewevans107]

@@stitchfinger7678 wtf are you on about? I clearly put Steamworks in that post. With Skyrim you had to have a steam account and install Steam even if you never purchased from Steam before or after that

[@xaytana]

As for the Steam branded controller, it's an update on the HoriPad+ controller for the Switch. At surface level, they moved the center media key (mute on the original IIRC) to be the system button, leaving and refunctioning the other two buttons in their place, and added some extra switches to the rear. There's clearly a microcontroller upgrade, HP+ didn't have capacitive sticks so it already has more overhead than the original MCU, nor did it have the programmable buttons, plus the switches on the back apply to further overhead on the MCU's inputs. Hopefully this alludes to the new controller having analog triggers, as the original Switch controller would've only had digital triggers. Another issue of the original controller, which is potentially alluded to being upgraded in the new one, is the fact that motion controls were mapped to the right stick rather than being discrete controls. Worst case scenario, it's essentially the same controller, the capacitive sticks only act as a switch for the stick-mapped gyro sensor, and any upgrade is within firmware to allow for programmable buttons, though realistically this is all on the Steam side of things via Steam Input, though this will be a historical moment that a third party pad is fully supported beyond what Xinput is capable of; this ais an entire issue with Steam Input and controller support. Best case scenario, it's a proper controller that's fully featured without cut corners. Given that it's Hori, I'd lead towards worst case scenario, and it's just a slight update on the original HP+ with no real upgrades. Don't be surprised when it's lame, the only definitely good thing coming out of this is SI API having a proper third party pad supported, though I'm not sure if this support will eventually extend to other pads alla what reWASD is doing. But we'll have to see a proper spec sheet or unboxing to find things out.

[@smeezer]

I have a ton of games I never play or really intend to, the reason for it is so if someone visits or wants to hang out, I have games that can be coop, can be 2 players 1 computer, games that are cozy and games that are big hits even if they're not my style. Think of it like a wet bar for games. You gotta have stuff that isn't just for you if you want to be a good host :)

[@supra107]

I don't know if Microsoft has screwed that up too, but you could navigate the Win11 Pro/Enterprise installer to set it up "for corporate use" or whatever and make a "domain account", which is the old WinNT account, or in other words the local account. A very convoluted way to deter people from setting Windows up the old way, but last I tried it it was there.

[@andersjjensen]

"domain account" and "local domain account" are two vastly different things. The former requires a domain controller on the network, the latter is just a needlessly complex way of saying local account. It is, however, technically correct, as every post-Windows-ME version runs a local domain consisting of only the computer and it's accounts.

[@davethefoxmage5797]

Anytime I have tried to set that up (work in IT, here), it just kicks me back to a screen where I make a local user. It doesn't do the domain join - I need to do that manually after the initial install process. Then delete the useless account it had me make during the installation... Honeslty, I've gone pretty much Windows-free at home recently because of all of these kinds of things. Even my next gaming rig is going to be Linux. If I can't convince it to run on a non-Windows OS, sorry, I'm not playing.

[@mniakan754]

Today was the day windows decided to update itself even though I specifically made sure this never happens and some new unwanted guest was there: Microsoft copilot, I had never in my life searched how to turn off something faster

[@zackzeed]

Get Winaero tweaker. One of the best tools i can think of.

[@falxonPSN]

I'm not a fan of things installing on their own either. Funny enough, I have installed the co-pilot app on Android just to see if it had any value and I find that for web searches it can actually get me significantly better results than Google or Bing. I just use a throwaway account to sign into it and reject all other permissions on the app.

[@andersjjensen]

Unless you domain join your computer and use group policies to force a local update repository, you'll never not get updates. The neat thing about having a local update repository is that you manually have to approve every KB before it gets pushed to clients. The sucky part is that if you just want to blacklist some specific ones you have to hard-code them in a powershell script that automatically accepts everything except those.... But I guess building an entire virtual Windows Server Enterprise environment, and doing all the network shenanigans needed to prevent it phoning home (you don't want to know what Windows Enterprise license cost!), is a bit much for most people....

[@Lucas-zu5zn]

​@@andersjjensen I think there's regedit stuff you can do to just nuke the auto updater completely but that's obviously pretty extreme

[@andersjjensen]

@@Lucas-zu5zn I've never seen one that doesn't have other negative effects like suddenly refusing to install PnP drivers automatically.

[@GeorgeDaDragon]

Most of my unplayed games were from humble bundles, the games I wanted in the bundles were at the higher donation amounts usually, so I got like 8 games I'll probably never play every time I got a humble bundle....

[@AcuraAddicted]

The future of user surveilance and AI is truly terrifying. I believe the current generation will live to see 1984 in their lifetime.

[@pakiller786]

valve needs to bring back steam os for the desktop market

[@BigglyG]

Microsoft trying its hardest to make this finally the year of the Linux desktop.

[@TheHamgamer]

I say give that to next year when the new PC hardware comes out at the end of the year.

[@MazeFrame]

When they posted the guide on how to install Linux on their instructions/guide site, that was what we in the business call "a hint"

[@obinator9065]

i switched permanently and couldn't be any happier. Also the ntsync driver is about to be merged into the 6.10 Linux kernel which will improve Wine performance!

[@ChrisWijtmans]

@@obinator9065 ntsync is a horrible idea. sounds like microsoft is just backdooring linux.

[@SnakebitSTI]

It's an uphill battle, but Microsoft is putting serious effort in. I just wish they'd do it by making Linux better instead of Windows worse!

[@GeorgeTsiros]

Have used phobya nanogrease extreme (or something like that) but I am now considering the grizzly one. Might do an AB test. Props to GN for making advertisements _mean_ something

[@ZippydsmLee-freetube]

First sale doctrine should force all vendors to hold the usage rights of the things they buy, so the rights can be traded to any vendor platform, it does not have to work on it, just have the rights for the vendor to give the end user consumer the ability to use the thing on their platform. We need a digital first sale doctrine so badly...

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Real

[@TheHamgamer]

I'd like to encourage everyone to take time out and explore switching to Linux for their next OS. Gaming support for it has spiked from Valve and there are some distros that are simple for Windows users(Such as Linux Mint). It's free, more secure from viruses due to it being open source and you can update whenever YOU decide.

[@Collin_J]

The only thing keeping me on Windows is devs that use BattleEye not enabling Linux support. Also, I'm lazy

[@garystinten9339]

​@@Collin_Jhave you notified the Devs at wine to see if there is a workaround??

[@thomasphillips885]

I installed a game the other day on Linux and didn't even think about whether it would work until after it launched perfectly

[@FallenMerick]

I've been considering switching to Linux for a very long time, but... with such an overwhelming number of distros available, how is anyone brand new to Linux supposed to find their preferred one to switch to?

[@TheHamgamer]

@@FallenMerick If you're used to Windows, Linux Mint works well and feels familiar.

[@panhandlep]

Microsoft is going down really hard on teaching people about computers by incentivating Linux installations. That's just admirable.

[@marsovac]

Apple was doing this for years and it did not backfire. Maybe they are going by that.

[@Nyx_2142]

I get that there is a lot of cope from Linux fanboys around this, but 99% of users will not fucking care and they certainly won't care enough to deal with an entirely different OS that is beyond tedious and obnoxious to install and manage. This isn't the beginning of some Linux renaissance, lol. And I know some fanboy will probably try and link me a German state switching to Linux from Windows, without realizing that they have tried and failed to do that numerous times and will switch back in a year or two when that bureaucrat moves on, just like they have before. The world runs on Windows for PC and Android for phones, get over it.

[@MR_FIAT]

@@Nyx_2142 i dont think its tedious to install but it yeah it absolutely is not ready for mass adoption, way too many bugs and quirks that require hours of troubleshooting kind of makes it dead in the water for the forseeable future.

[@thebeber2546]

⁠@@MR_FIATWe have to stop with this „Linux has too many bugs and quirks“. GNU+Linux has been rock solid for years now. Unless you try to run some specialty hardware with only propriatary NT-Drivers, everything just works. (Nvidia is a special case, but many Distros include the option to install their driver during setup.) Choose a common DE like KDE or Gnome on top of X11 and you‘ll have a polished desktop experience as well (at large). Even if a problem arises, a solution is in most cases only a web-search away. The real problem is application support. Applications for creative professionals are especially lacking. (Though I find that crowd to be a bit overrepresented on KZbin.) For general home use (and yes even for most gamers), Linux+GNU based OSes are really good.

[@oatsmobile6508]

@@Nyx_2142 I think the difficulty in swapping is vastly over-stated. If you can read and understand computer logic to a basic degree, it's really no different or more difficult than learning to navigate windows imo. Linux used to be harder because there was less documentation, but I haven't run into a problem yet I couldn't simply look up. I don't mind a little manual research if it means I don't have to deal with Microsoft constantly trying to invade my privacy

[@Kroogles]

"Marketed as..." I have tremendous respect for you and the people you surround yourself with, it's always good to see your integrity.

[@Anonymous______________]

Onedrive and teams are excellent focal points for data exfiltration. It begs the question whether or not Microsoft is using these software stacks to company or competitive data.

[@thingsiplay]

The lawsuit in the UK against Steam sounds suspiciously like Tim Sweeney..

[@ChrisWijtmans]

yeah tim little sweeney hates steam for some reason. steam is getting worse by the day but its still better than others.

[@thingsiplay]

@@ChrisWijtmans I actually think Steam gets better, but otherwise I give you right. ;-)

[@dirge7459]

It very likely is. Nearly every lawsuit against Valve's cut has stemmed from parties that have either been involved or talked to Epic/Timmy, it's no coincidence that the guy is fooling others to fight battles for him (which should hoenstly be made illegal to do at this point, it's literally corpo guerrilla espionage).

[@Nyx_2142]

@@ChrisWijtmans You are just constantly whining under comments "wahh, steam is worse every day." Saying it over and over won't make it true, bur you do you, I guess.

[@ChrisWijtmans]

@@Nyx_2142 sounds like the one whining is you since you dont like my opninion.

[@UngoKast]

How ironic I reinstalled Windows last night and ran into the issue of not being able to log in since I had to connect to the internet despite having no wifi or ethernet drivers installed. That exact tip saved me. Not to mention the install failed 30 times and took 4 hours to finally reinstall Windows.

[@daviddavies3637]

As a part-time game developer, who once had his own computer games store, 30% is no different to the markup, pre-discount, that you'd find in an actual bricks'n'mortar store. You could argue that running an online marketplace is cheaper and therefore the markup should be cheaper, but you could equally argue that games should be cheaper if sold online because you don't have the same manufacturing and distribution costs. Game developers and publishers have additional costs when going through the full retail chain because there's also the distributors, who act as the middle men between publishers and retailers. So, in that sense, online stores are ensuring that devs make more money, not less. So, the fact that games are starting to cost ridiculous sums instead of getting cheaper, as they should be because of the savings that Steam are offering them, why isn't she going after game developers?

[@Mesingel]

8:24 that, sir, is a backslash 😄 I've also heard of the possibility of following the prompts, hitting the "I don't know"-type buttons until it gives up and lets you create an offline account. If there's a "OMG tell me more??" response to this, I could see if I could find screenshots for this.

[@renzokuken2g]

As an IT professional (Guy) in Germany, awesome work on the MS coverage! Thanks gentlemen! One more thing, the unplayed Steam games could be accurate, I have around 10 I have yet to play though I have owned them for years...lol. That's what happens when you get a job.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Only 10 unplayed games on your Pile Of Shame? That's cute! Your purchasing behaviour is rather sensible with that record. :D

[@EXiLExJD]

10 is nothing... I bet you've never experienced the golden age of humble bundles and summer sales with such a small backlog.

[@anonony9081]

I have at least 50 games in my steam library that I haven't played and probably 100 that I have played less than an hour

[@curryking1]

Of course it's utter crap but I hope you weren't one of those steam fanboys who frothed at the mouth when it was any other company, that said it should be 15 percent on digital goods and more likely 10 percent across all non retail organization which operate entirely digitally

[@QactisX]

Wait till you have Kinder haha

[@codycortello]

00:58 Lawsuit vs Valve Seems Odd 04:50 Microsoft Charged with Breaching Antitrust Laws 07:05 Microsoft Automatically Uploads Files to Internet 09:47 RTX-4070 Ti Super GPUs Coming Based on AD102 13:26 NVIDIA Market Cap Declines 500 Billion 15:43 Hori Announces Wireless Horipad Steam Controllers 16:42 Patent Reveals Xbox Keystone Imagery 19:38 Arctic Releases M2 Pro SSD Cooler 20:45 MINISFORUM Releases UM890 Pro "Hawk Point" Mini PC 22:18 Valve Releases Steam Game Recording in Beta 23:56 Rumor $19 Billion Spent on Unplayed Steam Games

[@TomJacobW]

Skipperino Steverino

[@Omizuke]

Like the Steam game recording. Dropping pin when you take screenshot is a great idea. But they really should add Intel GPU support. On my previous build. I had it set so it would use Intel's QuickSync for the recordings on OBS instead my Nvidia GPU. It gave me better results. I also used QS in many other programs. Current build is AMD so no QS. And a 3060 ti can handle recordings fine. But still, it'll be nice to have QS for the people that still use an Intel device. As for the game stuff... I have games I haven't play a single hour. Want them, bought them on sale, at their lowers or close, to add to my ever growing backlog. I appreciate the value been coorelated to a an nvidia employee. It makes it so much understandable.

[@Morpheus-pt3wq]

That Arctic M.2 heatsink is a bit doubtful, specifically due to the assembly mechanism. Best standalone heatsinks use screws - and for a good reason - you need to assemble the thing under pressure, as the controllers are sometimes of lower height than memory chips. Their TP-3 pads are good, tho, if not ones of the best thermal pads on the market, as they don´t leak oil - the only caveat is they´re not reusable and tend to self-destruct upon disassembly.

[@MarkFletcher2001]

I wouldnt be surprised with this Valve lawsuit if Ms Shotbolt has some relation to Epic. Also F**k Epic.

[@trippybruh1592]

Epic is China with CCP backing.

[@fishberk]

Thor mentioned!

[@techfan7808]

Hey Steve, can ypu also cover the Per User Services that ms installs and enables? Thanks for the great coverage.

[@Valfaun]

regarding the game capture feature that's coming to Steam, something that i really like about AMD's solution in the Radeon driver software is that it lets you choose where the temporary footage is kept, either on the drive or in system RAM. so if you have a good amount of spare RAM you can avoid unnecessary wearing on your SSD

[@traestorm]

Every time people complain about the 30% figure I always want to point out that in the before times of Steam, it was not unheard of for publishes of games to take 70% or more. This was the biggest reason Steam became popular in the first place.

[@GGP337]

If complaining more gets it even smaller it would be great, I don't think humans should ever stop complaining

[@defaultdan7923]

@@GGP337based

[@Lolatyou332]

Cool, now it's time for more innovation to lower the cost further so we actually get good games rather than the money going to platforms that have monopolies on their market (PC gaming)

[@dragonmaster1500]

@@Lolatyou332 Except that Valve doesn't have a monopoly. The reason that the vast majority of people prefer to purchase from and/or publish to Steam is because they just flat out have a better product with better features and user friendliness than the other game stores.

[@luisapaza317]

​@@GGP337yeah, if it's fair, it's really an advancement

[@eliotcole]

Yeah, I've fully left Windows at work because 11 is so horrible to use. I'm no linux head, but getting to grips with Debian 12 (wayland gnome3) has been interesting!

[@1pcfred]

I'm a Linux head but I do not want to come to grips with the Wasteland or lawn Gnomes. I fully left Windows in 1996. I'm still running Debian 11. I usually skip a version or two. OK sometimes I just run a distro until the wheels come off. My file server I installed in 2011.

[@akuma2124]

Hearing that Hori was making a controller for steam had me interested when i first heard about it, but after seeing the design, I cant say Im a fan.... and if you're right about it being $50 USD, thats going to be a lot more in my local currency, which means even less chance I'd consider buying it, if they sold them here. It was actually in my "maybe" pile depending on price. Now its a "maybe... if it goes on sale with decent discount".

[@runiniscrazy]

Btw the command prompt work around did not work on my latest install of windows 11. It would open command prompt but not allow me type in the window. However booting into audit mode and running bypassnro command there did work.

[@bituniverse8677]

My favorite part of Pirate Software’s statement is “Don’t make me get the stick.” Absolutely matches the vibe of this lawsuit

[@no-replies]

Who is that guy? He just popped up from nowhere and now he's everywhere.

[@jellygoo]

@@no-replies "My name is Jason Thor Hall but I just go by my middle name of Thor. I started in the games industry in 2004 on World of Warcraft Vanilla. I've worked for Blizzard Entertainment, Amazon Games Studios, the United States Department of Energy, and now Pirate Software. I've got three black badges from DEFCON, two for cryptography, and one for telephreaking. I'm a programmer, hacker, game developer, and all around giant nerd. I left all of that behind and started my studio Pirate Software in 2017 and I haven't looked back since. As the studio head I wear a lot of hats. I'm the programmer, writer, designer, game director, social media manager, and tons of other jobs. I feel extremely confident in running my studio and in how far we've come and how everything has turned out. Any decision that I ever make is based on analytics and research." People appreciate the no bs takes that are grounded on experience and facts.

[@moej6014]

@@no-replies He used to work for Blizzard and is now a developer and streamer. He created Heartbound. I didn't start watching him until recently. Great motivational speaker and story teller. His dad also worked for Blizzard. His dad is also the guy from the WoW episode of South Park.

[@xamindar]

Naw, you will stay on Windows and will upgrade to 11 when forced. If you were going to use Linux, you would already be on it. I have seen people say this countless times and they always just stick with Windows in these cases.

[@bituniverse8677]

@@xamindar Wrong comment, I think.

[@ThemePro24]

How much more can MSFT ruin Windows?

[@GamersNexus]

That's true. There's not much left!

[@Djuncle]

@@GamersNexus I'm switching to linux when I get my next rig in a couple o years.

[@dark_matt3r_]

It can always be worse 🙃

[@powerpower-rg7bk]

They can make the suffering last decades. They know how to improve enough after a dud to get users to upgrade only to pull the rug out from under the same users upon the next major release. There will be no two good release sequentially.

[@kintustis]

as much as you let them

[@Bareego]

I'd like to point people to Microsoft's latest privacy statement about their use of your personal data, especially the last sentence in the "How we use personal data" section : "In carrying out these purposes, we combine data we collect from different contexts (for example, from your use of two Microsoft products) or obtain from third parties to give you a more seamless, consistent, and personalized experience, to make informed business decisions, and for other legitimate purposes. Our processing of personal data for these purposes includes both automated and manual (human) methods of processing. Our automated methods often are related to and supported by our manual methods. For example, to build, train, and improve the accuracy of our automated methods of processing (including artificial intelligence or AI), we manually review some of the output produced by the automated methods against the underlying data."

[@kathrynck]

I mean... there's a lot of "oh, the bundle is only $5 more..." and you get some old legacy games within an IP, etc. In some cases you got the bundle specifically as the cheapest route for a particular DLC or something, and got a lot of other stuff just randomly thrown in. That said, sometimes... you see "oh I remember that game, that was cool", people buy it for $4 on super-duper-sale... and then don't get around to doing anything with it.

[@seanmaier4941]

FYI on some images of Win 11, bypass NRO has been removed from the cmd directory (you can manual added it back)

[@pikaporeon]

time for more GN linux coverage ;]

[@JureRepinc]

Yeas please more about GNU/Linux

[@plebisMaximus]

@@JureRepinc Or we could make things interesting and get some Busybox/Linux coverage.

[@Witchlord]

That final little quip about Nvidias market cap was the burst of sweetness that comes from the syrup capsule in a mcgriddle. The pop of greatness that elevates a great sandwich to near perfection. Thanks for the great content.

[@brothatwasepic]

Hi guys how do you clear all forms of cache, thumbnails, and temp files etc from your pc. I need to free up some space while waiting for more pcie5 ssds

[@TheEnricoMicheli]

The new Steam feature is neat but it also removed the "show folder" button for screenshots, and added a "save" button. They are still in the usual folders, but I saw someone say the future plan is to only have online screenshots.

[@M_CFV]

Cringe. I want the files on my computer not the cringe cloud bs

[@ChrisWijtmans]

valve is getting worse every day sadly, i would not be surprised if they go with taht cloud bs.

[@stevewalker9870]

As much as I dislike cloud stuff, this honestly makes sense, Steam has a sizeable focus on creating a streamlined experience across multiple devices, so it makes sense to store screenshots on Steam's servers, and if they're already stored there, why would you need them locally outside of specific situations? And in those cases you can just download them Besides, if you want a screenshot that isn't associated with Steam, just use your system's screenshot feature...

[@TheEnricoMicheli]

@@stevewalker9870 Because, supposedly, the space is limited and only the latest ones would be kept. I checked, I have 5GB of steam screenshots. Just let me have the screenshots on my pc. That I have. At home.

[@ChrisWijtmans]

@@stevewalker9870 spyware shill.

[@MisterGiGs]

@20:07 I bought one of these Arctic Pro M.2 coolers, despite it saying it will fit on a double sided SSD I could not get it to fit on an ADATA SX8200 Pro 2TB, it physically would not latch down, I swapped it onto another M.2 that was single sided (SKHynix P41 Platinum 2TB) and cooled by a Thermalright cooler that screwed together and it fit the double sided M.2 fine. Temps for both drives have been fine since the swap.

[@EhNothing]

"Approximately 19 billion dollars has been spent on unplayed steam games...." I feel personally attacked