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

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Post by Lendal »

jasode wrote: post #38
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/

>The solution is to run Linux. The Linux answer is often repeated but unfortunately, some users depend on various Windows software that only runs properly on Windows. E.g. CAD/CAM, Quicken finance, sewing embroidery, etc can't run in a Linux WINE emulator nor QEMU/KVM virtual machine. And avoiding the WINE/KVM incompatibilities by switching to "Linux-native" software such as Gimp often means having less features and/…

Manufacturing and automation is another big one. Think about a water plant that is air-gapped but needs computer automation software to run. These things are everywhere, in every town that has indoor plumbing and sewer. The specialized software that automates these plants only runs on Windows. It relies on industrial hardware and touchscreens that are designed for use in harsh outdoor environments. All of these types of plants rely on high school educated operators that need to understand what's going on at a simple level. Having an OS that in any way relies on Internet access is a non starter. A Linux based system would be removed within a year of operation. You could get it approved maybe if you really worked at it but it would not be accepted in the long run, after the initial startup. There are physical constraints, technical constraints, and human/political constraints that are all working against Linux.

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

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Post by sylens »

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/

Just made the jump to CachyOS on my gaming PC this week. It’s been great so far.

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

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Post by criticalfault »

sd9 wrote: post #77

In my domain (motorsports), almost all software is ancient 3rd party stuff only available as windows desktop apps. I’ve tried emulators but performance is abysmal for these apps. There are also all sorts of weird networking things that don’t work. And generally when you work with a new team which has a different tech stack, there just isn’t time within the context of a race weekend to faff. I’m unfortunately locked i…

Would this help you?

https://reactos.org/

This is an open source reimplementation of winxp. I think they can even run drivers made for windows now.

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

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Post by sylens »

LogicHound wrote: post #19
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/

The 90% of games running on Linux does not say how well and what games. Sure I can play the Batman: Arkham Knight perfectly on Linux. However the game is a decade old now. Try playing some titles that came out this year and it going to be very variable, multiplayer titles are often a no go at all due to anti-cheat. You can argue to you are blue in the face about kernel level anti-cheat but at the end of the day if al…

Expedition 33 is a GOTY contender this year and it’s been working great for me on Linux

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

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Post by antegamisou »

wiseowise wrote: post #117
antegamisou wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank God all other non-Russian companies not only condemn various atrocities around the globe but even support the affected countries being liberated by developing the high-tech armies of the good guys, right?!

* Company is Russian * Doesn't condemn war (understandable in their position) * Has dev team in Russia * Pays taxes to Russia, which directly fuel war * Does not support UAF or donate to Ukraine (also understandable) * Keeps selling their software in Russia, which might have links to military and administration Am I missing something here?

> Am I missing something here?

The fact that all of the above is being presented as an exclusively Russian strategy. When almost all companies mentioned on this website are proudly and directly tied to non-Russian war industries. The tendency to omit pointing out non-Russian examples almost always indicates endorsement of their actions.

And let me beat you to this that I condemn all offensive war industries no matter the country of origin. Unlike those who believe it is ok to side with one and not the other even if they do the exact same.

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

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Post by mumber_typhoon »

naikrovek wrote: post #85

The number of Linux fanboys coming out of the woodwork to complain about Windows (and to provide anecdotes about Windows which are clearly exaggerated) is very high. Please read the Linux Advocacy HOW-TO. Shitting on Windows and MacOS does not make you look authoritative, honest, or credible. It makes you look like you have a very strong opinion and shut off from anything that does not conform to your opinion.

Windows and macOS will happily do everything they can to take your money and keep you in their ecosystem but shitting on them is a crime ?

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

lousken wrote: post #101
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

We use Exchange on-premises, and the web client is really bad.

While email is asynchronous and I can live with not seeing it all the time (I check it occasionally anyway), the calendar feature is a must, and specifically the reminders. This is why I cannot live without Outlook launched, and it reminds me of meetings I would miss otherwise.

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

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Post by happymellon »

thyristan wrote: post #115
baq wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> LibreOffice is an okay office suite writer, perhaps. calc, not even close - google sheets is unfortunately better in almost every way, and google sheets aren't great either.

Calc is far better than Excel. CSV import in Excel sucks. LibreOffice Calc is far better there. Best feature of all in LibreOffice Calc: highlight current row/column, so you have a cross-like cursor. Easier and better embedding of Python and other languages, not the "Python in the Cloud" crap that Excel does. Less crappy conversions like "oh, that surely looks like a date, let's mess up your data"...

> CSV import in Excel sucks

I'm going through a project at the moment where all the data is held in spreadsheets, and every time anyone opens them Excel fucks the numbers to be "scientific notation" despite there being space to display the full number and no way to disable this anti-feature. The amount of times I've had to restore the spreadsheet from a backed up CSV because of data loss is frustrating. I wish I could stop using Excel.

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