The filing points to a possible ad-supported model for PC and console games that is less disruptive than the approaches commonly used in mobile titles.

Watching an ad would earn players another block of ad-free play time, called a “credit”

  • Stolas@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    I always figured that this would be added for xbox within a year or two, but if they try for PC I really will go onto one of the linux wikis and start swapping immediately.

    • inflatablerobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      23 hours ago

      I’d suggest just setting aside some time on a weekend to just nuke windows and dive in. Something like cachy os is great for gaming, or bazzite if you’d like the system files indeleble like steam os.

      I ended up wiping my last windows install a few months back and I don’t miss it at all.

      • Stolas@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        22 hours ago

        I have an older laptop that I was actually thinking about experimenting with first, just to give myself some confidence in figuring everything out.

        I’ve been stalling on that though.

        • Nosavingthrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          15 hours ago

          I swapped to full-time Linux last October. It’s literally no difference for me since I use zero highly specialized software except maybe my mouse and headset software.

        • Krompus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

          Make a live USB and just fiddle around with it. Note that a proper install on NVME will be much snappier. Don’t nuke Windows until you understand the basics of Linux and have decided you want to daily drive it. Back up your data of course. Dual boot is often more trouble that it’s worth, Windows loves to fuck up your bootloader and partitions, I got fed up unfucking it and began unplugging my Linux drives while updating Windows, and eventually just wiped it.

          If you’re serious about it, try to source hardware that is well supported rather than just slap it on a random machine and hope for the best.

        • wry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          19 hours ago

          This is what I usually recommend to my friends who are interested if they have the hardware to spare. Sometimes I even gift them a machine if I have one to spare (mostly back when hardware was cheaper). This way you can also try out multiple distros without caring to find out which one you like best as well.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      My guess is it will go into Xbox/Gamepass on PC, and in MS games, but not in other launcher ecosystems.

      Still, go ahead and start researching. Whether it’s this or something else, something will be the final straw for you in Windows, soon.