I’m more worried that I lost my customisation abilities, rather than ads per se.
Ultimately you will have to accept that you don’t ‘own’ your Xbox. None of us do. Microsoft does, and you paid $500 for the hardware, which they can decide to brick remotely at any time.
This is the tradeoff between console and PC. Console is significantly cheaper but you don’t get any control over it.
Ads are never going away, and will likely only get more intrusive until people start hitting their breaking points.
Microsoft owns most gaming PCs, too, with Windows which is increasingly ad-ridden. The existence of some Linux-based alternatives is still a small percentage compared to Microsoft’s dominance here.
Yeah, they really ought to be getting cracked down upon by governments for their monopoly on desktop computing.
Simply opening directX would solve a lot of problems with gaming.
Almost every game I’ve tried to run on steam on linux, has worked. (though tbf, I don’t play multiplayer games).
It really is worth at least giving it a try nowadays. You might be surprised
I agree in principle. I’ve used Wine for games for a long time. Popular games usually worked even 15 years ago.