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

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Post by cogman10 »

drumhead wrote: post #82
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.

If you're a finance professional then there's no alternative to Excel. But otherwise Libre office calc is perfectly fine.

The only reason this is true is because everyone in finance uses Excel which means that differences in parsing excel docs is consequential. And, in finance, excel docs get shared a lot.

It's not the case that calc is lacking any features which excel has in a finance situation.

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

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Post by sd9 »

beAbU wrote: post #168
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…

If the software is as ancient as you say, then surely you should be able to get away with installing an old copy of Win7 or even older? When you say "weird networking" do you imply internet as well? If it's all offline and only locally networked I see no reason why you need to run a modern version of windows.

Yes, I could probably run Win7

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

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Post by AlienRobot »

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)

What do you want to do in GIMP that Krita can't do with a better UI?

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

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Post by AlienRobot »

N-Krause wrote: post #23
kkan wrote: post #6

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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.

While I can understand that it's frustrating. Kernel level Anticheat is a abomination in itself and should in no way be supported. It is a security flaw in itself! Read this: https://gist.github.com/stdNullPtr/2998eacb71ae925515360410a...

That is completely irrelevant. Users want the game.

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

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Post by vintermann »

LogicHound wrote: post #44
mikkupikku wrote: post #34

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The overwhelming majority of games that came out this year are from smaller studios and will work perfectly on Linux. It's only the big budget "AAA" games with corporate publishers pandering to shareholders/investment firms which insist on custom DRM and anticheat which are a problem.

The big budget games are often the ones that people are playing. Sure there have been a few big flops as of late, but a huge number of people are playing that require kernel level anti-cheat and DRM that does not work on Linux. There are also other issues around how well those games work. Some games will work perfectly fine. I am not disputing that. It is a bit of a lottery though e.g. I had annoying sound issues wit…

The publishers almost certainly prefer that you play these "AAA" titles on console, but if you insist, they'll settle for making your Windows as console-like as possible.

I live fine without a console, so I live fine without a Windows gaming PC too. I don't think the AAA chasers have more fun than me when it comes down to it, dealing with these companies seems to be an aggravating affair even if you do everything the way they want.

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

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Post by cogman10 »

happymellon wrote: post #162
drumhead wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're a finance professional then there's no alternative to Excel. But otherwise Libre office calc is perfectly fine.

> If you're a finance professional then there's no alternative to Excel Not sure what you mean by this exactly, but I work in banking with a lot of "financial professionals", and the general opinion is that Excel is not good because it screws with numbers, whether its scientific notation (Why? Its just as long as the original number), rounding of numbers (had that with a large list of account numbers just last week w…

The problem, as I see it, isn't a feature problem but rather just the fact that everyone in banking and finance is already using excel. You aren't going to see `ods` files passed around.

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

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Post by lelanthran »

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.

> > LibreOffice is an okay office suite

> writer, perhaps. calc, not even close

For what I see 99% of people do in excel (make a table, then sort it and draw some charts), calc would support all their uses just fine.

For those using it for actual accounting/financial stuff with equations in the cells, and custom macros, etc ... then no, calc won't be sufficient.

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

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Post by happymellon »

cogman10 wrote: post #177
happymellon wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you're a finance professional then there's no alternative to Excel Not sure what you mean by this exactly, but I work in banking with a lot of "financial professionals", and the general opinion is that Excel is not good because it screws with numbers, whether its scientific notation (Why? Its just as long as the original number), rounding of numbers (had that with a large list of account numbers just last week w…

The problem, as I see it, isn't a feature problem but rather just the fact that everyone in banking and finance is already using excel. You aren't going to see `ods` files passed around.

I would agree with this.

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

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Post by 131012 »

jncfhnb wrote: post #159
theshrike79 wrote: post #136

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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

Nah it just got promoted as the database for PowerBI. /s
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