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YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by lousken »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #71
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Outlook is what is keeping me away from Linux Desktop.

Outlook on the desktop is pretty much in maintenance mode only and Microsoft is already breaking it[0]. As for web version runs on linux just fine so you are in luck.

In general, unless you need advanced Excel features, you can switch to linux.

[0] e.g. https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-cant-help-break-window... and couple others

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by jacquesm »

aquir wrote: post #10

The best time to buy a MacBook Air (or Pro) or a Mac mini! Much less BS and you take it out of the box and use it within 5 minutes.

The better solution is to buy an x86 laptop and install Linux instead. All of these empires are just milking us.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by Borealid »

engeljohnb wrote: post #53
N-Krause wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While you're at it, you might as well downgrade to Win7. No jokes aside, if all the software you want runs on it, it is fine. Just no security update etc. I would suggest just switching to Linux and using a VM for things that NEED to be Windows. Games that run kernel level Anti-Cheat won't run, but tbh nothing I would suggest installing anyway.

> VM for things that NEED to be windows. The big two that spring to mind are online games and Adobe softwares. I don't think a VM can usually meet the performance needed for either. I do wish more artists would take a chance on open source softwares, but most of the ones I know are still insistent that nothing can ever come close to Adobe. But that's a rant for another time.

Games run pretty great on Linux, but if you do want a VM, passing through a graphics card to that VM via vfio provides 95%+ the performance of native.

Virtual reality headsets with dual 4K screens running at 75Hz+ perform well on a Windows VM done that way. A normal flatscreen game is going to be just fine.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by MrNeon »

lousken wrote: post #81
indigo945 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Writer is awful too. It will randomly mess up formatting, especially in tables. Also in tables, it will insist to try and parse cell values like Calc would (breaking numbers and dates), even though Writer doesn't even provide a way to run calculations on those numbers anyway.

Word is awful too, it messes up formatting, especially when pasting images. Good luck writing anything longer than couple pages. Hasn't been solved in 20 years. Have stopped using word 2 years ago but I am gonna assume it's still an issue

Section breaks keep the formatting changes from affecting the previous/following content so you can place and format images as you wish.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by Tor3 »

breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Japanese Windows software mostly don't run, or does it badly, with Wine on Linux. Unfortunately. I've been a full-time Linux user since 1992 and this frustrates me. Some of the software won't even pass the install stage. I'm forced to run this on wife's Windows 10 PC, which has its own set of nightmarish problems. Japanese software houses develop for one target: Windows. As a rule. They don't really know about anything else, except for the occasional support of Mac from some of them.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by etothepii »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #71
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Outlook is what is keeping me away from Linux Desktop.

And the crazy thing is that while outlook is my life it's also unbelievably bad. Why can't I have the calendar and email client open at the same time? Why don't newly received email addresses appear in the valid auto complete for sending out calendar invites? Why is search practically useless?

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by hdjfjkremmr »

kkan wrote: post #6
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I think that is the main issue. 90% games is a lot, but is not nearly enough when the most popular multiplayer titles simply do not work due to usage of anti-cheat. For example you cannot play the new Battlefield 6. As for GIMP, while I understand it can do many things as Photoshop, it is not close in terms of features and the UX is unfortunately terrible.

GIMP can't compete even with the version of Photoshop from 2000.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by alyxya »

amarcheschi wrote: post #66
alyxya wrote: post #58

The main issue is how opaque the system is, though that may also be a feature to limit people’s abilities in figuring out how to bypass various restrictions. No one should have to risk the existence of their channel and livelihood to some unknown automated algorithm. Although the reddit post only cites videos from one person running into this issue, the first video link has comments referencing someone else so I foun…

At least in eu, one should be able to access and contest the decisions made to remove your content, I don't know if this is the same outside eu

I imagine youtube has the same automated system comply with eu, but the videos linked in the reddit post mention how quickly the appeals were denied, so accessing and contesting decisions alone doesn’t fix the automated system problem.
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