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

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Post by jdalgetty »

baq wrote: post #7
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/

> 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.

I've used calc every day for years. It works well.

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

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Post by PeterStuer »

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 in its recent versions is (barely) functionally just the repackaged web version.

It is the poster child for enshittification.

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

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Post by sd9 »

herbstein wrote: post #140
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…

I hope you don't mind being a bit curious about this, as a hobby driver. At what level of motorsports are you working? It sounds like you both semi-regularly work with new teams. And are you working with them as a programmer? I'd be curious to know what kind of applications you're then working on, if so.

I work primarily with GT3 teams across the highest level championships (WEC, IMSA, DTM, GTWC, ALMS), with a variety of manufacturers.

With a small team of software engineers and data scientists, I'm building a cloud based motorsports data analysis platform which eliminates the friction involved in handling motorsports data and the differences between different manufacturers' software systems, and quickly gives drivers & coaches insights on how to improve their driving. So this involves getting into the weeds of a lot of this legacy software.

There are a few teams I work more closely with where I've set up their entire trackside network/tech stack, although nowadays I'm more focused on the software. Over the years I've done a bit of everything at the track, up to and including physically laying cables in a bare garage or setting up the systems on the car, although I don't do anything related to vehicle dynamics.

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

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Post by LogicHound »

mentos wrote: post #76
LogicHound wrote: post #27

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I am a die-hard Linux guy and I have to use Windows for certain things. One of those is multiplayer games. I am never buying a Mac. I've owned 4 macs over the last 20 years and I've regretted every purchase.

I've only ever used windows. Recently got a mac mini so I could compile for iOS. I'm debating embracing the entire Apple ecosystem given I use iPhone. Not a huge fan of iCloud's pricing though. Curious what issues you ran into with your macs/Apple experience?

I had the following problems. Note my hardware was ageing at the time and was about 5 years old. I know a quality apple specialist that did the work.

- Glue'd in batteries on Laptops. I had a Mac Pro with a glue'd in battery. I could have done it myself, however I ended up opting to get someone who knows what they are doing to replace it. Labour and battery replacement cost me about £250.

- Official charger made the power lines toast. Another £250 to get it repaired.

- iOS Safari browser sometimes stops videos / audio when the screen locks or you switch apps. It is really annoying. Doesn't happen on Graphene OS or Android.

- iCloud is kinda required if you use an iPhone even though I don't use it for backups.

- Upgrades just aren't possible. Every single on of my laptops I have, I have upgraded ram, disk and even processor on some of the older models I have. I changed an intel Mac Mini drive to an SSD, it was a fiddly to say the least. On other SFF machines it is often a 5 minute job.

- MacOS is kinda just weird. While it is a Unix, it does everything it can to hide it. As someone that used both Linux/BSD. MacOS feels like running a weird Linux distro. Brew was kinda weird after coming from Linux world. I would have just preferred to run Linux.

- The online account stuff with Apple is somehow worse than Microsoft.

These days I buy refurb Business Laptop from Dell or Lenovo. Literally 10% of the price, Linux almost always works and if breaks, I can buy another one cheap for the same price as repairing an Apple machine. I get it, they are not as nice but for me they work fine and are much cheaper.

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

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Post by taneq »

lousken wrote: post #84
haritha-j wrote: post #69

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VLC is a GREAT media player

Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff Players like mpv are way better unless you want to use nightly build of v4

Haven’t tried mpv but VLC is my go to for weird formats and streaming from random rtsp cameras. Maybe it’s outdated but a couple of years ago when I switched over from libffmpeg to libvlc it was because some cameras on site had weird auth problems with libffmpeg but worked when streamed through VLC. I swapped over and now those cameras work.

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

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Post by baobun »

lvncelot wrote: post #125
ahoka wrote: post #21

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I would recommend Krita over GIMP.

Aren't they're used for slightly different things though? GIMP for image manipulation and Krita for digital drawing? (Krita is pretty awesome though, it's up there with Blender for me)

Inkscape is also great and sits closer to Krita.

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

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Post by Esophagus4 »

le-mark wrote: post #122
mentos wrote: post #76

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I've only ever used windows. Recently got a mac mini so I could compile for iOS. I'm debating embracing the entire Apple ecosystem given I use iPhone. Not a huge fan of iCloud's pricing though. Curious what issues you ran into with your macs/Apple experience?

For me it was the keyboard shortcuts and mouse behavior differences. That plus the homebrew weirdness trying to emulate Linux package management. I decided to just use Linux. Ultimately, Linux is a development environment for Linux, and by extension the most developer friendly OS imo.

I’ve gotten used to the mouse behavior and keyboard shortcuts.

One thing that drives me nuts about Linux is that application support generally isn’t as good as Mac. For example, there is no Claude Desktop app for Linux nor an Apple Music desktop app. If you need those, you’re using somebody’s hacked together project that half works, a web version with limited features, or paying for a third party app.

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Post by jncfhnb »

theshrike79 wrote: post #136
distances wrote: post #49

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> > LibreOffice is an okay office suite > > writer, perhaps. calc, not even close This really depends on your needs. I'm sure it's not enough for someone who does Excel wizardry for living. But I use it for tracking personal finances and other simple tasks and graphs, and it is completely sufficient. This in my book easily earns it the "okay office suite" badge. To be honest all office suites in the last 20 years hav…

There's an old anecdote that everyone uses only 10% of Excel's features ...but everyone uses a different 10%. Something that's useless to you might be a dealbreaker to someone else.

I doubt that holds up personally

I would guess reliance on excel is declining

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

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Post by smt88 »

happymellon wrote: post #150
thyristan wrote: post #115

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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 coul…

This is just a formatting/display issue. Excel isn't rounding the number internally.

It sounds like the problem in this case is that you don't know how to use basic Excel features.

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