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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.
On the other hand I've had plenty of problems of Insync. And the open source solutions are all garbage.
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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..
Why N VMs? You had one before, you can have one VM with multiple apps (if you can even count office parts as multiple apps)
You're right. One VM could work for office and other utilities. Unfortunately for me it grew into a mess of VMs, fast.
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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.
Isn't everything soldered these days - including RAM in some cases ?
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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?
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.
You can get very far with Gimp and or Inkscape. I'm going to suggest that the majority of Adobe users will get by just fine with Gimp.
I help a friends dad with his computer sometimes. A few times per year, he brings it to me and says it’s being slow. Every time, it’s windows update bogging his machine down for weeks, since it can’t seem to update on its own without crashing and causing issues. Last week it took over 5 hours to reinstall an update - several times longer than would be needed to install windows or Linux from scratch. I might install c…
As someone who uses Windows for industrial PCs, I'm pretty appalled. We've been hanging on to Windows 7, including side-loading drivers into the installation image for modern hardware, because this kind of stuff that Windows 10 does is in these cases simply unacceptable (random tip: Go for AMD, their Windows 7 support is way better than Intel, do not use Intel chipset series 300). I can't have PCs bogged down downloa…
This isn't news. We're linking to someone complaining on reddit. Maybe an actual link would be more useful. And even this is from July. https://www.pcworld.com/article/3409788/how-microsoft-made-i...
On the other hand, I don't mind Microsoft getting some more crap thrown at, at all. Higher chance that their much eager marketing/PR team will take notice.
This seems like it is preparatory to removing it entirely. It wouldn't be shocking if in 10 years you need a Microsoft account to use windows on a computer you don't have root access to that isn't allowed to run a non ms os or to distribute software that ms gets a 30% cut. If it isn't so it will be because they don't think they can get away with it.
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My friend who's a graphic designer had to reinstall Windows because, surprise surprise, one of earlier Windows 10 builds released for Windows 7 bricked her machine and that of course comes with reinstalling all software as well. And the fun started when she had to reinstall Adobe stuff: she couldn't reactivate one of older Photoshop she bought because it wasn't supported anymore - it couldn't connect to Adobe servers…
Had two of these scenarios too where the software was suddenly not activated anymore. Nothing helped, didn't want to reinstall the OS. At some point I just thought that since the license is there, piracy is the way to go. The cracked versions installed without issues and neither used any cloud functionality. A stripped down installer for Windows might also be the way to go here. Of course updates would pose a problem…
Some additional story that I recalled: in the past - around 2003 IIRC, OpenOffice was sold in Poland by some small company so others could use it freely as an alternative to MS Office and fiscal control wouldn't have a reason to give you a fine for using unlicensed software. Luckily, in 2005 some sane people at Gdańsk tax office "figured out" that free and open source software is ok to use and made GNU GPL legal.