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For fallout 4 you might need to disable vsync (IPresentFrameInterval) or some similarly named setting in config file. Also you'll need to cap the frame rate after that

You may need to use mods to fix Fallout 4, but I believe Nexus already ported their vortex modloader over when you're ready for that.

I've never seen OneDrive forced on Win10.

It's an option, it's there by default, but you don't have to use it. I never have (used the default stuff), and I use OneNote heavily with my PC, iOS, and Android, which requires sync to OneDrive - which I setup later with a user account unrelated to the account on my PC.

I haven't had forced OneDrive on Windows 10, or Cortana.

It comes with shit installed that it shouldn't, but every thing I have uninstalled, has stayed that way.

Other than the shitty settings menu, Windows 10 ended up okay. You just had to tweak and work around some things, which you will be doing with Linux too.

Windows 11, on the other hand, is a complete pile of shit. I dual boot Linux now and use Windows less and less.

Insider, there's been massive change along the way.

Yea, fundamental paradigm hasn't changed from a UI perspective, but that's just to keep people from having to re-learn too much at once.

Under the hood, the change from NT3.51 to 4 was noticeable from a stability standpoint, then from NT4 to Win2k was massive - true plug-n-play, dynamic event capability, performance and stability were significantly improved. XP was a small increase over that.

I had to reboot NT4 every day, often multiple times if I changed hardware, like using a vendor dock even.

Then Win7x64, another massive increase in performance and stability.

Win8 can die in a fire, because it wasn't any better than 7, with some dumb stuff in the UI and the beginning of MS really scewing up control panel.

Win7 is the high water mark to me, though Win10 is virtually identical to server, it even runs exactly the same Hypervisor framework. The differences from 10/11 to server are mostly tuning, how updates are managed, and server lacks some user-focused services.

I've run Server Core and Win10 (for Hyper-V) on the same hardware and the performance difference wasn't visible. It would take running a large server and heavy VM workloads (eg databases, regular VM migrations, etc), to see the difference.

I don't see a major performance increase going to Win10 as a single-user machine, but virtualization is much faster than if I were running even Win10 with VMware workstation (naturally).

Heterogenous scheduler support for big.LITTLE CPUs seems like a big deal to me, especially with the Advent of P+E core Intels.