This reminds me of the stupid Gigabyte RGB software…

Not sure if this is till the case, but for a long time the kernel driver had a known unpatched security vulnerability. And uninstalling the software did not remove the kernel files, so now your system is vulnerable until you reinstall Windows…

And I fully expect some kernel level Anti-Cheat to be no better in this regard.

I’ve been playing Elden Ring with the Seamless Co-op mod with a few friends, it’s been a blast so far.

You can do the same on Windows (mount ssh shares), there is an Fuse like project for Windows: WinFsp.

Agreed. And then there is the combo of the most recent NVIDIA driver and Debian Kernel that doesn’t work together. First time I actually had to downgrade a Kernel update though.

But I guess this could happen with every driver

I picked up Starsector again this weekend and having a blast with a modded playthrough.

“Allows” You have to add/change a registry key, so it’s not like this is an option Microsoft wants normal users to have.

Really? It hasn’t been reset for me once, I wonder why I’m not affected.

You could just make a backup of the registry key and install it again in a few clicks .

I wish, but multiple Laptops with unavailable drivers, barely working trackpads, sleep issues and a few other annoyances tell me it isn’t always as easy.

I haven’t found many systems that Windows doesn’t run

I disabled that realy quickly… If I wanted to search the Web I would use a browser. I can only recomment that, it speeds up search a lot and it now actualy works as one would expect