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Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Post by rk06 »

viraptor wrote: post #216
tanr54ok wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn’t just one app, there are plenty. Excel and adobe cs are the obvious ones. If you’re not in programming (exclusively) you’re stuck on Windows or Mac.

Latest excel has gold level support: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI... I know there are plenty of things that don't work with wine, but realistically, how many of them does each person need to work, and how many are "defaults"? For example if you spend 90% of your time in illustrator, do you need excel specifically, or "an app with text in cells"? And if you're crunching market data in e…

You got those examples and mixed up

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Post by askthrowaway »

Osiris wrote: post #202

At least it can sleep and resume reliably. I have a Linux laptop and desktop and work and both of them crash on either suspend or resume. Actually, I installed the latest mainline kernel and managed to get my desktop to resume once, but the second resume locks up the whole system. So now I just do a full power off every day when I leave. The laptop is System 76 and comes with PopOS pre-installed and I still have issu…

When ever I lock screen it get black so i have to type password blindly. So overcome this I put laptop to sleep with wake up locked option disabled. So it wake up logged in immediately for now.

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mastazi wrote: post #63

This is incredibly bad. In general I have a positive opinion about what MS is doing lately, but Windows is a glaring exception, it’s getting worse and worse at an alarming rate. In the last two months we had two consecutive updates that broke basic functionality for users who disabled web results in Windows Search (which is a very common setting among those who care about privacy) https://www.zdnet.com/article/window…

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Post by darklajid »

viraptor wrote: post #179
mastazi wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason why I feel like I’m stuck is based on my personal use case. Basically I need two things: A. Being able to use some proprietary software not available on Linux B. Being able to self build so I can select the HW that works for me With Linux I lose A and with Mac I would lose B. I’m thinking that a combo Mac Mini + Tower PC with Linux could work, but using two OSes at the same time, even with shared NAS, KVM…

What about C: use Linux for the main desktop, use Wine for things that require Windows, use a VM with windows exclusively to launch that one annoying app which won't work under wine?

I'm thinking of going down that route, but for various reasons I NEED Outlook and Office a lot, although my main work is development and could work on another platform.

If you do this (as I did in the past) you're now juggling N Windows VMs to avoid ONE Windows host system..

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Post by stakhanov »

lone_haxx0r wrote: post #154

Meanwhile, the Linux world is wasting its biggest opportunity to take over the desktop space. IMO, Unintuitive interfaces (e.g. Gnome shell), forced package management (as opposed to decentralized distribution of apps) and lack of care for graphic design are the biggest things keeping the masses away from the Linux desktop, because in other areas (speed, robustness, privacy, control) it just blows Windows out of the…

I'm a big fan of Linux, and have a Linux desktop set up next to my Windows desktop. But. They've been talking about Linux taking over the desktop for the last 20 years. It's not going to happen next year either. And not the year after that.

The only hope we have of the MS Windows / Apple OS X duopoly on the desktop to break up is if the trade war escalates and China starts working towards getting a third ecosystem going. -- Problem is that you'd expect the Chinese to care about privacy even less than the Americans.

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