This is why I pirate Windows Server and KMS activate with an instance of vlmcsd on my home router (with the DNS SRV wizardry set up to allow automatic discovery). You can pay and pray, or you can vote both with your dollar and wits!
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Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#352>Windows is a service Windows used to be a fucking operating system. That’s all I want it to be.
Its pretty much the McDonalds of operating systems these days, I do not know how people put up with it.
Some are limited to having to use it - while still agreeing with the McDonalds assessment.
For instance, I'm a musician , teacher and producer and I do most of my work in a DAW called Cubase. It runs on Windows or Mac, and my main workstation is on Windows. I've been banging on about how great it would be to have it running on Linux for maybe 20 years, but it'll never happen. I'm sure people will suggest switching to something like Bitwig (which does run on Linux), or any of the free options, but either they don't do everything I need (free options), or I just can't get used to using them and they still don't work in a way that I'm comfortable with after nearly 30 years using Cubase.
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#353I've switched to Linux + Mint in part because I don't want to be using Windows any more. Many of my games work with Steam on Linux now, actually. With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform. I really have no productivity loss by not using Windows any more.
How do you deal with Broadcom WiFi drivers?
You can change the WiFi card on some laptops. Otherwise buy Lenovo.
Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#354FTA They have not removed it, it just is not visible by default if you are connected to the internet. So it’s just a UI issue
Its not a UI issue if it forces you to do something. its by design.
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What about Dropbox? Also Nextcloud
Dropbox runs on linux but they are missing a lot of features and it only works on unencrypted ext4 fs. They are slowly dropping support I would say.
Dropbox recently updated the Linux FS limitations. See https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/desktop/syste...
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#357I've switched to Linux + Mint in part because I don't want to be using Windows any more. Many of my games work with Steam on Linux now, actually. With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform. I really have no productivity loss by not using Windows any more.
How do you deal with Broadcom WiFi drivers?
I looked into WiFi cards a year ago for a computer build, and iirc you can get a very high end Intel NIC for Atheros also has good support for Linux.
I just looked it up, and Intel's best chip the AC 9560, with 2x2 1.73 Gbps WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 is It's an easy swap on desktops and on most laptops too.
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Linux? Basically everything an average user does is in the browser.
As a privacy concerned individual who is more tech savvy than some (but by no means a technologist or even a dev) - NO. no freakin' way man. I tried to do a dual boot WIN/Linux setup once. What a shitshow - took me hours, multiple attempts, drivers not working, weird quirks trying to get peripherals to work, games not working. Recalling it now makes me angry all over again. 90% of this planet is not capable, nor will…
This is unfortunate but entirely true. I'm a software developer and though absolutely not a Linux expert of any kind, nevertheless very far from being a computer novice. But this is kind of my experience with Linux. I keep logs of configuration & software difficulties I have with OSs. My Linux one for this month is longer than my Windows & OSX ones for the past decade combined.
And I'm writing here as (currently) a Linux user - it's the main OS on my work laptop because the things I like about it (stellar performance, notably from the filesystem, fantastic developer tooling) are more important to me than the difficult things. But the difficulties are numberless, and I accept that many things I take for granted on Windows or OSX just will never work well. Most of them could work, but I'll never have time to track down & absorb all the Arch wiki, SO & manpage resources I'd need to sort them out.
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It's ridiculous to call it an "ordinary desk stand" it's anything but. A 100% perfectly calibrate weightlessly counterbalanced stand is a godsend for those who need it. The rest can get the VESA adapter instead. Furthermore, this is a product targeting a market that normally spends over $40,000 on a monitor without any mounting gear or stand to do the same work. Apple's display a bargain in context. If you think this…
It's sad to see such victims of marketing.
While I'm 99% sure you're just trolling, on the 1% chance you're really not, the OP is absolutely correct in that Apple is positioning their $6000 monitor against $30K+ cinema editing monitors. They really exist. A lot of the Pro Display XDR specs are really very very clearly aimed at competing with them. Those specs may not be something you care about, but let's not pretend it's "yeah, whatever, I can get this other 6K monitor over here that's just as good for $499, man" deal. (Dell has an 8K monitor for under $4000, but the Apple monitor is 2.5 times brighter, has a contrast ratio that's over 750 times better, has 9 different reference modes, variable refresh rates specifically matched for film use -- you know, like a cinema editing monitor? Yeah, that.)
Apple certainly made a bad marketing mistake with this monitor, but the mistake was marketing it as a $5000 monitor with a $1000 stand. If they'd just marketed it as a $6000 monitor -- and if they'd made it clear right then that there'd be a 5K option available for $1300, too -- they'd have saved themselves a whole lot of this nonsense.
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This is more a dark pattern issue: user who's connected to the Internet during OOBE stage of installation will be forced to create or login with online account because it won't have other choice visible while the choice still exist but is simply hidden, because of MS "goals".
Can confirm. I was installing Win10 for a fried a few weeks ago and couldn't create a local account. After a couple minutes of search to no avail, I tried: Just how is that supposed to work if I unplug the internet? By letting you create a local account, of course.
Last time I had to reinstall, OOBE creator nagged me twice to go online when it couldn't detect network connection - it even show me Wifi page while my PC has an older motherboard that doesn't feature it. That was kinda... desperate.