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YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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

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Post by chongli »

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/

Anyone have a good suggestion for Linux dictation software? My friend wants to switch to Linux but he does all his writing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

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

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Post by JohnLocke4 »

a5c11 wrote: post #48

It's funny to see how Windows and Linux completely switched sides. Linux once being the clumsy one, hard to install, even harder to configure, mediocre UX, running on poor device drivers and requiring hours spent on the internet to solve a problem. Today, replace the "Linux" word with "Windows" in the previous sentence.

Convention and the terminal holds it back. A terminal looks like the 1970s but feels like the future

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

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Post by engeljohnb »

N-Krause wrote: post #13
gverrilla wrote: post #9

How viable is it to stay in Win10?

While you're at it, you might as well downgrade to Win7. No jokes aside, if all the software you want runs on it, it is fine. Just no security update etc. I would suggest just switching to Linux and using a VM for things that NEED to be Windows. Games that run kernel level Anti-Cheat won't run, but tbh nothing I would suggest installing anyway.

> VM for things that NEED to be windows.

The big two that spring to mind are online games and Adobe softwares. I don't think a VM can usually meet the performance needed for either.

I do wish more artists would take a chance on open source softwares, but most of the ones I know are still insistent that nothing can ever come close to Adobe. But that's a rant for another time.

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

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Post by tsimionescu »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

It's also unfortunately impossible to have a good competitive multi-player online experience without kernel-level anti-cheat. It's simply too easy to cheat at many of these games in the absence of strict control measures, and even a single cheater can ruin a game session for every other gamer.

No one reached directly for kernel-level anti-cheat. It was the result of an escalation of the sophistication of cheating solutions.

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

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Post by joduplessis »

I wiped Win11 from my Ideapad and installed Ubuntu. I love Gnome & it's the closest it'll get to MacOS (am a Mac user mainly). Win11 was absolutely wild though - around every corner was some ad for Office365 or Copilot or some other shit product. You don't own Windows (anymore) - you borrow it.

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

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Post by boudin »

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 Calc works well and does the job for what most people needs, I don't see any issue recommending it.

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

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Post by alyxya »

The main issue is how opaque the system is, though that may also be a feature to limit people’s abilities in figuring out how to bypass various restrictions. No one should have to risk the existence of their channel and livelihood to some unknown automated algorithm. Although the reddit post only cites videos from one person running into this issue, the first video link has comments referencing someone else so I found a video from that other person as an additional data point.

https://youtu.be/vQ-RXzzU9u0

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

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Post by abcd_f »

N-Krause wrote: post #13
gverrilla wrote: post #9

How viable is it to stay in Win10?

While you're at it, you might as well downgrade to Win7. No jokes aside, if all the software you want runs on it, it is fine. Just no security update etc. I would suggest just switching to Linux and using a VM for things that NEED to be Windows. Games that run kernel level Anti-Cheat won't run, but tbh nothing I would suggest installing anyway.

Browsers are the problem.

Firefox outright refuses to install on older Windows versions for a couple of years now. Very lazy and negligent move on Mozilla's part.

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