from 64bithero@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 22 Feb 07:23
https://lemmy.world/post/43438004
For some of us sadly proton and Linux still isn’t a viable option for daily gaming on PC. While that means you’re stuck on Windows it doesn’t mean your experience truly has to suck.
I went down the rabbit hole of Windows Debloating and to me the most viable option was Atlas OS. Not technically a new OS but rather an (overall) easy to use tool that will automatically remove and disable windows worst features. This is my honest opinion on it after using for 3 months !
Installation honestly was the worst part of the experience for me. I had additional issues due to technical problems with the motherboard. For most people it won’t be nearly as hard. The problem is many of the steps are decoupled from the Atlas provided software. In other words the process asks you to go to other websites to download other files. If you follow the steps perfectly you shouldn’t have issues. If you do and the errors are unrelated, things may get painful.
The key selling point of Atlas OS is increased performance for gaming. And to be honest this wasn’t a thing for me. My games ran as good and no better. CPU usages were exactly the same. What was better was the Windows experience. No more pop up ads. No more needing to delete 3rd party software I never installed. And best yet no Co-Pilot! It’s unclear to me if these are just disabled or entirely uninstalled. From what I can see most telemetry has been disabled. In short it’s the windows experience I’ve been expecting. Less hiccups and less crashing.
If you look you will find critics who say this takes away control to remove every thing you could want. But personally I can’t think of anything else I would want to remove. Is it still windows ? Well yeah. Is it entirely free of garbage, probably not but it’s sure a lot less noticeable.
For me and I imagine for many Atlas OS might be the “good enough” to keep dealing with Windows. And If you are curious I suggest taking a look. I do hope eventually we do get the full gaming Linux revolution. But for now. Atlas will do.
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Reasonable review, but if you just wanted to simply debloat windows, you could run the Chris Titus windows tool, go to the tweaks tab, select recommended tweaks, then click run tweaks to achieve the same end goal. This sounds a bit more involved.
They also had MicroWin that was in the tool, but now it is moved out to be its own utility. It also provides the advantage that you can create one ISO that gets you ready to go right away.
You just described the linux experience. In 99% of the time, Linux just works. For 1% of the things, you have to apply above methodology. How is that worse than keeping on using windows?
When you paid a few 100 dollars for games you want to play and proton doesn’t support them. You keep using Windows
If you mean games with anti-cheat then it’s the developers of either the game and/or the anti-cheat who don’t support proton, not the other way round.
i like the idea of this OS but it seems overly complicated. i run a few apps and a script to remove copiolet and other stuff.
If you need to keep windows around, you can also do what I do for my VMs. Download Win11 Enterprise IoT LTSC from massgrave.dev. Doesn’t have Bing search in the search bar, just local, no Co-pilot, no bullshit.
I’d prefer not having to use it at all, but some software just doesn’t play nice with wine yet.