: Workaround sent to the big OOBE in the sky with latest Insider builds
    • Amju Wolf@pawb.social
      4·
      2 months ago

      You don’t need to “crack” anything. Massgrave can activate any version of windows through the official process.

      It technically probably breaks the EULA but no one gives a shit (including MS).

    • Ardens@lemmy.ml
      10·
      2 months ago

      Well, Adobe is not “household” software. :-)

      But there are a lot of other software, that people have a hard time letting go of. Like Affinity, Scrivener, certain games, a lot of small programs/apps, like FastStone apps (Image viewer and more), AllMyNotes, ActionOutline, Duplicate cleaner 5, EZ CD Audio Converter and more…

      • Emily@slrpnk.net
        2·
        2 months ago

        I always recommend Loreforge as a replacement for Scrivener. I had no problem swapping once I spent a little time in Loreforge. It’s even available on Windows so they can try it ahead of time.

        • Ardens@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 months ago

          Loreforge

          It’s a good alternative, but it’s subscription based, and that’s a no go. Thanks for telling me about it though.

          • Emily@slrpnk.net
            2·
            2 months ago

            Huh? I’ve never paid anything for it.

            Edit: Ohhh, I see. They’ve added a subscription for some extra stuff. The full features of the program are entirely available in the free version. I’ve never pushed up against a paywall as far as I can tell.

        • Ardens@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 months ago

          My guess is, that you haven’t heard of a lot of apps or games, that a lot of people enjoy using… But it’s really of little consequence to the debate here, what you have heard of. :-)

      • Damage@feddit.it
        52·
        2 months ago

        Well, Adobe is not “household” software. :-)

        it is when everyone pirates it

        • Ardens@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 months ago

          Which everyone doesn’t do. By your definition, every software is household. Come on, please relate to this with common sense.

          • Damage@feddit.it
            1·
            2 months ago

            It may be me being a millenial, but I’m used to Photoshop being widely pirated. It used to be Adobe’s strategy to let people do that because that meant more people who knew how to use it and therefore more business sales.

            • Ardens@lemmy.ml
              11·
              2 months ago

              I used a pirated version of PS too - many years ago. I worked with multimedia, so there was a reason. Most regular people don’t even know how to use PS… They are better of with just a simple tool to do what they need, like cropping adjusting size, levels, colors and and the most basic things.

              • Damage@feddit.it
                1·
                2 months ago

                Yeah, again, my opinion may be influenced by my age, once upon a time computer users were, on average, skilled enough to do simple stuff in PS.

            • heavyboots@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              No offense but with the number of random processes running on any given machine, I am in no way gonna trust a mission critical app to work right from a pirate site and not load something extra like a keylogger. Hell it barely works right in a fully legal install…

              Also, I used to strongly advocate switching off Creative Cloud to Affinity to own the software but I have this horrible feeling that they may be going either subscription or AI slop or both on the 30th and you can no longer buy version 2.

              (And I say that as a long-time Adobe stockholder from back before they went pure evil with Creative Cloud.)

              • Damage@feddit.it
                2·
                2 months ago

                No need to convince me, I quit using Adobe before they even introduced Creative Cloud.

                I’m just explaining what I see.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I am waiting for an official SteamOS Desktop release. If I am switching to Linux, I would prefer a gaming-focused PC distro that has the support of an 800lb gorilla.

    If I have to migrate early, say, at the start of a 2nd American Civil War, I will probably use CachyOS. I don’t expect Microsoft to be neutral or to work for the good guys.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 months ago

      For anyone else on the fence, you don’t need to wait. Lots of distros support gaming right out the box. I switched my gaming desktop (nvidia card) to Pop_OS!, installed Steam, and it just works.

      What factors lead you to select Cachy?

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        More performance, which would be appreciated. I use local AI for roleplay, shaving off a couple minutes from a response would be nice.

        Aside from that, KDE Plasma might let me tweak my experience better than what Mint allowed. Being nearly a complete newcomer to Linux, I don’t really know what distro actually suits me. That is why I would prefer an official SteamOS Desktop, since that would probably have enough casual and power to be useful for me. I am pretty much just going to try Cachy and see how I feel.

        🤷‍♂️

      • ook@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        2 months ago

        Bazzite is another one. Super easy install, you could dual boot it but you need a bit of tech affinity to follow those instructions. Just installing it by itself and deleting windows is easy as though.

    • zebidiah@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 months ago

      I ran steamos for a few months on my gaming PC… You can download the iso and run it on just about any hardware (so long as it’s team red).

      Cachyos is better

      The immutable nature of steamos made sure i wouldn’t ever be able to fuck it up, but it also means you cant really sudo anything, plus it’s missing basic PC functionality like printer drivers etc.

    • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      2 months ago

      The meat of the work Valve did was with the compatibility layer, not SteamOS itself. This means you can choose any distro you’re comfortable with and games will work as well as they do in SteamOS. I recommend Bazzite.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

    Even at my workplace I asked HR for permission to switch the office desktop to GNU+Linux. They required the installation of a few malware spyware but otherwise didn’t mind.

    I have been using GNU+Linux on and off since 2007 only using Windows when needed to. Now I’m fully Windows-free and intend to keep it this way.

  • mub@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 months ago

    There needs to be some sort of EU directive that once a hardware device sells enough units they MUST provide the equivalent software features and functions available on windows for Linux, and not just a plain driver with no config options.

    Imagine being able to buy hardware knowing you can configure it in Linux without relying on some unsupported thing made by the community.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      i used to think this too; but seeing tech literacy rate drop since the widespread adoption of smartphones makes me wonder if people will go with whatever works well enough and for the least about of effort.

      and linux still takes effort.

      • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 months ago

        makes me wonder if people will go with whatever works well enough and for the least amount of effort.

        This has always been the case. People want something that just works right out of the box, and familiarity will keep a lot of people from considering anything else.

        I’ve been talking for a long time now with a friend of mine about how sick we are of Windows, and more recently about how I’m planning on installing Linux on a spare HDD I have before making the commitment to getting rid of Windows entirely, and he’s decided to go to 11 despite hating it because he’s afraid of trying something new and having to learn a new system.

        And it’s not just a computer thing. People can and will hurt themselves by repeating the same mistakes because it’s the familiar habit and doing something new - even if it’s for your own good - is scarier. Been there, done that, plenty of times.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          People can and will hurt themselves by repeating the same mistakes because it’s the familiar habit and doing something new - even if it’s for your own good - is scarier. Been there, done that, plenty of times.

          i know too many people who are hurting themselves because they genuinely can’t afford iphones or macbooks; but they keep borrowing money to buy another one each time something happens to their current one and only because “it just works”

    • fin@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 months ago

      Nah most people will just create an account. They literally have no idea what they are doing.

    • PhAzE@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 months ago

      How is it for gaming? Im hesitant to switch just for that one use case, but its a big one.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        2 months ago

        It is amazing for gaming (particularly if you go with AMD over Nvidia). I’ve run into very few (if any) games that have outright not worked. Almost all games work with not tinkering whatsoever.

        Checkout protondb.com and look up the games you’re wondering about.

      • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
        5·
        2 months ago

        Great. Proton changed everything. My friend uses arch, i use fedora, another friend uses bazzite. I can play everything i want, no issues. Great framerates

        • Sas [she/her]@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 months ago

          The great framerates was something i doesn’t expect to this extent when switching. I thought that games would probably work similar but i went from 40-50 fps on medium high settings in elden ring to smooth 60 on highest settings just by switching from windows to bazzite