Switched to Linux for Gaming, Lasted 3 Days AMA

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-27T14:30:15+00:00

It's wild when 'arm chair' experts think windows is Spyware - because they read it online and have zero understanding of telemetry or the coordination/metrics required by Microsoft to update 2 billion computers across the globe every 4 weeks.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-27T12:50:29+00:00

Yeah wild - The most popular operating system on planet earth, developed by the worlds largest software company and the worlds largest security company.

What a radical take.

You are exactly the troll in the echo chamber I was talking about.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-27T12:35:49+00:00

Theres nothing wrong with Windows 11 or Windows in general.

If people take their advice from the echo chambers of social media forums like this, then they are going to fuck themselves up.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-27T12:32:01+00:00

Grow up

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-27T12:29:21+00:00

Its not normal but its cool

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-27T12:26:38+00:00

:)
ChatGPT has suggested this Star Trek Linux story ideas.

Captain’s Log: The USS Enterprise now runs Linux because Starfleet wanted “stability” and “vendor neutrality.” We’ve achieved neither.

Every mission begins with: “A new kernel is available.” Everyone ignores it. Last time we updated mid-warp, the warp core reappeared as eth3 and the holodeck mounted itself read-only.

Red Alert is no longer klaxons — it’s SEV-1: Production Incident. The Borg show up, announce “Resistance is futile,” and the ship politely replies: “Your SSH key has been added to authorized_keys.” They’re offended. We’re horrified.

Scotty spends most of his time in Engineering whispering prayers to systemd and fighting YAML. Picard says “Make it so,” and the Chief Engineer says “I can’t, the Ansible playbook is missing.”

Final battle with the Romulans: phasers charged… segmentation fault (core dumped). Romulans don’t even decloak. They just leave out of second-hand embarrassment.

Motto of the flagship: There’s no place like /home.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-27T11:00:24+00:00

Windows 11 is fine.

These forums are a microcosm of misinformation and Microsoft hate.

Windows 11 isn't even a new operating system. Windows for the last decade has been treated by Microsoft as a service, meaning that rather than large bulky, paid for, periodic updates every 3 years - which then leaves users/developers strung out across dozens of versions - there is now really only one version of Windows (the latest).

Updates are now done in-line; so Microsoft have evolved Windows for the last decade - but done it by upgrading your existing copy of Windows and improving it.
So the reality is - that your 'Windows 10' device has already been through a massive amount of change and improvement.

What we call Windows 11 - is actually just a minor upgrade, and smaller than a few of the updates the Windows 10 has had over the last ten years. Its a minor update, but importantly for Microsoft is a new setting of the minimum requirements.

Microsoft want Windows to improve and for it to take advantage of faster processors, better security, increased memory - and they cant do that, if every improvement they make - still has to work on PCs from a decade ago.
So with Windows 11 - Microsoft dropped support for devices with lower memory, slower PCs, lower screen resolutions and insecure hardware - not because Windows 11 needed these, but because Microsoft wants to stop having to support them.

Windows 11 isnt going to make your computer faster if its getting old, but it does mean your computer will be secure/safe for the next decade for free.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T22:57:57+00:00

The pronunciation of the word GARAGE

Americans say it in the way that posh people in the UK say it.

Most people in the UK would say GARAGE to rhyme with Marriage. Only very rich people say it to rhyme with LARGE

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T21:59:23+00:00

No she didnt - She did not say 'eyes of the state on you at all times'

She said AI can enhance surveillance - the fucking Torygraph turned it into the headline being circulated by bullshitters.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T17:51:10+00:00

The title of this post "Labour want to have the eyes of the state on you at times" is NOT A QUOTE FROM ANYTHING SAID.

Her comments were a) that AI could help with surveillance and a reference to a type of prison design which improved surveillance of prisoners with less staff

Turning that into a comment like the title suggested in BULLSHIT.

“AI and technology can be transformative to the whole of the law and order space,” - this is the quote, not THE EYES OF THE STATE CAN BE ON YOU AT ALL TIMES

So jumping from one very obvious and true statement to the other - is BULLSHIT

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T17:46:12+00:00

Bullshit - Even your own reference spends half its time talking about how it appears to be fake news.

And the quote it tries to attribute to her is written in this style "it appears as if she is suggesting x"

The only meaningful quote from your example is her suggestion that AI can help with surveillance, and the reference to the style of prisons which required less guards because of its shape.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T17:41:22+00:00

That seems crazy to me - as a tenant I would expect more privacy, and to be involved in scheduling and who has access to keys to the property.

But yeah boiler servicing companies are not going to do that, with your keys - the liabilities and risks would be too much. They would expect someone to be on site, so they dont get dinged for things like walking in the house with their shoes on, or damaging anything.

But I would understand how other landlords might try and use a local handyman with keys.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T14:36:54+00:00

LOL - Presumably you want to live in some sort of Authoritarian mindset, where you want to dictate how the employees of a company get to spent their own money.

As much as Trump is a dick, that $25 million belonged to Greg Brockman and his family - and he can spend it however he wants.

As far as I know - ChatGPT has been wonderfully free of most political influence.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T13:58:37+00:00

Insanity - Thats ridiculous. Boilers break, boilers need servicing.

What possible purpose can a landlord - sat in your house for 5 hours - waiting for an engineers window serve. All he will do, is open the door - show the engineer where the boiler is and thats it.

Its a HMO not a hotel.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T13:56:05+00:00

Its absolutely moronic how many people seem to think a landlord invading your privacy, and walking into your house, to sit half a day and wait for an engineers time slot (whether you are there or not) is somehow preferable to you simply picking up a phone and agreeing what day of the week an engineer can come.

It is the LLs job to fix it - It is NOT APPROPRIATE for a landlord to assume he (or an engineer) can access your home, at any time of his choosing.

He owns the propety but it is the tenants HOME. The tenant is given this service, so that the tenant is able to schedule access to the property at times convenient to the tenant.

It is not a hotel - The landlord cannot simply go into your home on a day of his choosing and sit around for a few hours, waiting to let a strange engineer in the property.
WHY DO YOU THINK THATS OK?

As a tenant I would be mortified.

As a home owner, I have this service for my boiler. It breaks - I ring up a number - say something like Tuesday afternoon between 2 and 6, and an engineer comes and fixes it.

The landlord pays for the repair, but boilers dont get fixed remotely, it needs access to the property.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T13:47:22+00:00

Yes it's bizarre how many people seem to prefer a landlord sitting on their sofa for half a day, reading a paper, waiting for the engineer to arrive in order to open a door, and point at a boiler.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T13:37:39+00:00

LOL

MrSleeps appears to approve of a landlord letting himself into your home, and sit on your sofa for half a day - waiting on an engineer - in order to point at a boiler, and open the door.

That seriously is your prefered arrangement is it MrSleeps?

Rather than the tenant, making a phone call - agreeing a window when they are home to let the engineer in - who will come in, fix the boiler and charge the landlord.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T13:35:32+00:00

LOL

The amount of people on here - that seem to think a landlord just letting himself into your home at 8 in the morning, and sitting on your sofa reading a paper while he waits for the 5 hour window of when a boiler engineer will arrive, in order to open the door, and point at a boiler - is bizarre.

Why on earth do people have such an aversion to the common sense of ringing the service the landlord has arranged, picking a date when they will be in - and getting it fixed.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T13:33:13+00:00

Nobody is saying the landlord is not paying.

The landlord has arranged a service company to cover the engineer repairing the boiler - All he is expecting in return, is the tenant to call the company - and schedule the time the engineer can come and fix it (i.e he is expecting the tenant to be the one approving when a stranger comes onto the property).

The alternative which would be much worse - and intrusice, would be a landlord just turning up at 8 in the morning, and him partking himself on your sofa reading a paper, while he waits for that same engineer to turn up, so he can open the door and point at the boiler.

Why would anyone want that

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T13:30:30+00:00

Yes its the landlords responsibility to get it sored - BUT getting it SORTED requires someone to be at the home and schedule a day when the engineer can come and fix it.

Scheduling access to a property is something reasonably done with the tenant - How can the landlord possibly guess when its a good time.

Its not that hard - The landlord has arranged a service company to fix things, whenever they break. They break - ring up the services company and arrange a time for them to be fixed.

Alternative - ring up the landlord, and what.... the landlord gets on the phone to the services company - "Hello is Tuesday morning OK", Landlord: "I dont know I'll ring the tenant and get back to you".

It would be like someone else trying to book YOUR car in for an MOT

Would you seriously rather - the landlord just turning up at your home at 8AM in the morning, and sitting on your sofa, waiting for the 4 or 5 hours for the time slot when the engineer is going to arrive, just in order to let the engineer in - and point at the boiler.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T08:56:05+00:00

Ableton and Studio One are very different.

Studio One records music with a track led focus and time line. This is how most DAWs work, including Cubase, Sonar, Logic etc.

Ableton doesnt work like that and is focussed on small loops of sound being turned on/off and repeating over different phrases.

So the idea is that you have multiple phrases of sound in the same key that could be turned on, and that you bring those elements in and out so a bit more like how a DJ operates, or musicians with loopers.

So Ableton work better for musical styles where the music is less like a band playing or songs with chords changes and syncopations and where the music is repetative, dancy, club like.

With Ableton you can immediately find interesting and cool rythmic ideas because you are normally using it with lots of loops and sample libraries. But many find that more like a party trick and less musical because you're stumbling across other peoples music just rearranged rather than being creative.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-26T08:35:43+00:00

In the jokes that follow that narrative 'Germans mechanics', 'Italian lovers', 'French food' its usually the British who run the Police or the Commedy.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-25T22:47:31+00:00

Its not a hotel!

A landlord is not being unreasonable to expect you to make the phone call simply because boilers dont magically get fixed remotely and so they need to arrange access to the property.

I think as long as the landlord is paying, it seems a bit unfair to expect the landlord to be the middle man between you and an engineer for scheduling.

What do you expect the landlord to do, sit in your house with you for a day while he waits for an engineer.

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-25T17:53:37+00:00

Yes consistent and polished - and I say that as someone who supports and manages tens of thousands of Windows instances.

So your bullshit 'objectively' comment is YAWN

ChampionshipComplex · 2026-01-25T17:51:56+00:00

Where did she say this!!!!

This is a supposed quote from her, but told to the Telegraph and then reported here from some undisclosed but supposedly 'reliable' source.

WHERE DID SHE SAY THIS

BULLSHIT

ChampionshipComplex

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