Does Win11 not introduce anything ridiculous like having two control panels where the newer one is just a straight downgrade and often necessitates using the original one anyway? I would’ve thought it’d be filled to the brim with stuff like that.

Also on win10 the control panel still forcibly defaults to “small icons” even though on win7 it would remember the last setting selected.

Is dual booting worth trying? I’ve seen people claim multiple times that this leads to issues.

How do you make it look like Windows 7 with the windows xp theme?

Is there a place to check for software and hardware compatibility?

My friend has a 5800x3d and generally it runs better in games that “favor strong single core,” ie a horribly unoptimized game like Tarkov where even $5k brand new hardware will be unable to run it on certain maps and updates. I have a 5900x and have gotten better performance than him in a game like Kingdom come, even with a marginally weaker gpu. I would get whichever is cheaper unless you specifically have something in mind that you know would benefit from one or the other.

I only have 4 fans and currently have a reference blower card atm and the temperatures are fine, however this will depend on the ambient temperature in your room to a degree as well. The Thermalright Peerless assassin 120 is also a very cheap cpu fan that rivals the ~$100 Noctua ones.

The “general standard” for a lack of a better term for psu’s is to get an 80+ gold certified. I wouldn’t cut corners on it but I also wouldn’t go deep on the other end and get an extremely expensive one. I have a 750w Powerspec one that most people consider mediocre I haven’t had any noticeable issues with it. Cables can be a pain in the ass so if you’re able to I would get a semi or fully modular one.

To my knowledge Logitech mice frequently have a ton of problems but they all do to a degree. When I was looking for a new mouse while back, it generally seemed like Logitech had a ton of complaints and Razer’s quality dropped significantly around 2014. I have 32gb of ram which has been way more than enough for every game I have played so far, I wouldn’t get 64 unless you know you need it or plan on using it.

Carcosa suggested https://demo.mobilizon.org

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Minecraft

Only place I buy games from anymore

ex machina

google and dead projects

laezel rocks

laezel when my tav approaches

no because the last time I used netflix was five years ago. I never even thought to pay for any of the other ones

the chapo chatters pulled me back in

and lawn equipment

I actually wish we would become very much like Reddit used to be back in the day

reddit back in the day had a huge jailbait sub

Hexbear has become a cesspool

lol

Gog, drm free, just works, and devs get more money.

On the other hand, death to valve and steam. The launcher itself is dogshit bloatware and I do not have a single recent memory of it being remotely pleasant to use. The download and verification speeds are absolutely awful compared to Gog and, in my limited experience, Epic. valve was definitely a pioneer in microtransactions with tf2 and csgo. Locking mods to their storefront is fucking disgusting, as was their attempt to monetize them. There is also negative quality control when it comes to what’s allowed to be sold on steam.

If it’s not on Gog then I’ll just pirate it.

Thankfully I haven’t encountered that in forever but I always get multi-part 5gb download thats capped to 1mb/s and takes 5 hours

downloading a repack made by some Russian somewhere in 15 parts from 5 different filesharing websites

Never had this problem with fitgirl but rinru users unfortunately end up using some awful rate limited site usually. It’s always a pleasant surprise when it’s a drive link tho

The latter option does leave you with the game in your Steam account though

This is why I use them. Someone hosted a zomboid server on here but it’s set to steam only, I don’t want to give any money to valve if possible and I’m definitely not buying the game a third time at full price so I just used a gift card and got it for ~$7.

Honestly if I end up in a similar situation I’ll probably just do it again

lol

The country that leads the world in mass shootings shouldn’t be labeling other countries as “ticking time bombs.”