Microsoft is forcing Windows 11 PCs to 25H2 whether you're ready or not
…It's become a habit because the January 2026 update impacted the gaming performance on my primary system. It has an Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU, and I noticed frame drops that didn…
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Fedora is becoming the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself
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Updating my SSD's firmware fixed a chronic Windows problem that nothing else did
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Linux gamers didn't do anything wrong, but they might pay for Windows piracy anyway
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Valve's Steam Machine delay forced me to DIY, and honestly it's better this way
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I used Bazzite instead of SteamOS on my gaming PC, and it does everything SteamOS can't
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These 3 Linux distros convinced me Windows wasn't worth keeping around anymore
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Most "slow PC" advice you'll find online is 20 years out of date, and some of it is making things worse
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Valve isn't ditching Windows or x86, but it's quietly making both optional
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