Does the new Big Picture Mode depend on browser-based rendering?

(i.e. does it break when the client is launched with -no-browser)

Aww, we'll have to say bye to this page...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/487500/fault__SILENCE_THE_PEDANT/

...saying "When it is ready".

I'd add a report on the user's profile if they're posting unambiguously racist or obscene stuff.

Wow, it asks you to make a Microsoft account every 3 days? That's just messed up.

Originally posted by Bumbefly Sony Test םו:

Originally posted by budozero:

I upgraded to Windows 11 early. I haven't come across any major issues I didnt face in Windows 10. A few new menus and UI elements seem useless, and as with Windows 10, I end up in the old Windows 7 style menus and CMD eventually. The "start" menu makes little sense in how little it can be customised, but I hotkey/search for everything anyway.

Bumbefly, did you try using Edge profiles? I use them in my new job which has systems that expect Edge only and I have to juggle accounts.

I welcome profiles in my game mod manager and some other stuff, but i did not yet try them in Edge. For me it's not just about keeping actual email messages seperate, it's also about preventing cross-contamination through the browser, as i tend to corrupted email and websites occasionally. And yeah, there're also browser specific advantages, f.e. MS for MS, Google for Google with exception of Youtube & gaming, that's for OperaGX. & Some browsers free of any account, amongst which a browser to open links from not yet trusted parties and another account-free-browser to research phishing links and a rare malware link i would find at Steam (not to mention another browser for the X-rated sites).

I find having a bunch of different browsers, separately installed, seems to be generally useful, for keeping different things separate. Portable installs are also very useful.

Originally posted by Bumbefly Sony Test םו:

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Did they change the Start Menu again?

Major change. MS pre-installed a lot of apps which they think the general public might be served with. Considdering: if most everybody can find a few apps they actually use, then everybody will also have apps in their recommended ("readibly available") start menu they don't use. In other words, there's more bloatware and this bloatware is more clearly accessible. For Ppl who use Xbox and Facebook and Twitter and Tiktok and {you name it} this is convenient, but for Ppl who don't it takes extra work to customize and/or an extra mouse-click to see all installed apps. The space the recommended apps take up from the start menu can not be recovered in favour of another type of start menu items.

I know Win10 comes with a bunch of probably-pointless preinstalled stuff (e.g. Your Phone (on a PC), XBox-related stuff, Microsoft Office trial versions), and also spaces that are meant to download advertisements on first contact with the internet, but most of those can be semi-easily (even if tediously) removed (there are some that require PowerShell to remove).

Also, it's just a good idea to start up Windows 10 without an internet connection for a variety of reasons, these being some of them.

Is Windows 11 even worse than this?

Did they change the Start Menu again?

Sorry, I should have been clearer in using the term "remote playing" rather than "streaming".

I'm just curious whether this involves the person without the Steam account downloading the game or simply getting a controllable video stream of the game from someone else's machine.

So is this basically game streaming to people who don't have Steam accounts?

I noticed they changed the forum interface and now it's possible to throw awards at forum posts.

Ooh, I didn't know this was possible without friending them!