FW16 Batch 20 Guild

steam only dropped up to win7/8 in january, win10 is still functional for steam. i suspect that steam will continue to work on windows 10 until at least october 2025 when windows 10 goes eol, and if 10 gets extended security updates, until at least that passes (in likely 2028). windows 7 only lost extended support in january 2023, and it took a whole year for steam to drop it

plus, looking at the steam hardware survey, over half of windows steam users are on 10 (with almost exactly half of all steam users being on 10). valve would not drop support for an os that about half its users are using, that would not make any sense for them

tl;dr win10 still works on steam, and will for at least a year and a half

Hoe did you do it? With an Christitus ISO + Atlas OS after install and the Christitustech Winutil Tweaks. I didnā€™t get any Windows Telemetry Pings in my Pihole. I dropped using full Linux, because of some Multiplayer Games still not supporting Linux. Crap EAC.
I had one SSD with BTRFS as my Steamlibrary so i could use it with Linux and Windows (with Tweaks)

Ah, I wasnā€™t aware you could use an external tool to disable that. The built-in toggle sliders donā€™t appear to cut it completely.

i want to see when people think our batch is going to arrive
any thoughts?

i think it should ship within Wednesday and hopefully be there by Friday
:3

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I have mine arriving today. Shipped Friday with DHL from Taiwan via Hong Kong to Aus.

Hope to have it built for work over the next few days. Looking forward to it!

Then to order my Oculink eGPU setup for my RX 6800 XT! :smiley:

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Yours has already been shipped?

Yes & it appears to be arriving today :slight_smile:

Isnā€™t the case for me :sob:

Iā€™m sure it wonā€™t be much longer! :smiley:

It just arrived a few hours ago at work, on itā€™s way home now to start putting it together :slight_smile:

I havenā€™t got the shipment email tho

Thatā€™s great ! Unfortunately for people in contries further away from where it sent, well itā€™ll probable take up to a couple more weeks, which sadly is my case since I live in France. Do let us know how your setup goes though !

I live in Taiwan lol

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Well then I hope youā€™ll get it very quickly !

Some people from Europe in Batch 19 are getting their laptops this week, and weā€™re less than a week behind them. So Iā€™d guess some will be getting theirs this week and the rest early next week. I certainly hope itā€™s not two weeks for us folks in Europe!

I hope I can put all of the time Iā€™ve been currently using checking the forums to good use once the laptop has arrived :smile:

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Iā€™m pretty excited to get mine, havenā€™t received the email yet, but I also had a bit of extra stuff in my order so I imagine Iā€™m going to get the email closer to the tail end of the batch. I do hope I get it this week though, I want to do some vulkan work not on nvidia drivers like I have been.

Just got my shipping email (US)!

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Got charged Friday!!!

Havenā€™t gotten my shipment email yet but i expect it soon! My order was pretty standard aside from my keyboard and side panel modules

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Nice ! Hopefully that might mean Europe is next in line

Out of curiosity, is your unit pre-assembled or DIY?

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