One day that'll change when maybe a 400 or 500 series chipset comes out I'm sure. As it already stands, many 300 series motherboards have only Win 10 drivers. And since I deploy FDE on every computer I own it's really a massive deal breaker to use 10 right now even though I'll have to use it in at least 7 to 10 years least I get left behind in the silicon dust in terms of hardware and software requirements. Gone are the days it seems where the acronym really meant Personal Computer.

So either I find out what IPs, CIDRs or the whole damn ASN/s the game uses so I can white list it, or fire up the VPN to punch through my Pfsense hardware based firewall and depend on my Shutup10 like program for telemetry blocking crap. Only issue here is that it includes Azure and 'FS2020' will undoubtedly use Azure. The other thing I may do is nerd the # out of this with a nettop running Pfsense that blocks all of the ASNs I have a list for that go in and out of Windows 10. I need to install 10 to a hard drive anyway to use a program that's 10 only so that will be a more real testing ground absent of a virtual machine. So far the program I'm testing looks promising, but it seems to me that Windows 10 is a little flaky or something. I have been giving it a go in VMware Workstation Player and watching the NIC with all the telemetry and testing a program like Shutup 10 that operates at a more in depth firewall level to kill all that crap going in and out of your computer.

I'm very, very reluctant to use Windows 10 as my primarily OS of choice as are others.

As far as X-Plane, it sounds like the 737 ZIBO mod is pretty accurate and I may want to learn that aircraft after being used to PMDG's variant. For me personally, I'll await the guinea pigs to report in on what they say about 'FS2020' and base my purchasing power on that. You really can't vote in a poll about a game that hasn't been released yet to try out.

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