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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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or https://photopea.com

Why would anybody think it is a real alternative to upload your photos to website which is running proprietary garbage. Just use Adobe if you are going to do that.

The first feature paragraph on the Photopea landing page:

> There are no uploads. Photopea runs on your device, using your CPU and your GPU. All files open instantly, and never leave your device.

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

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or https://photopea.com

Why would anybody think it is a real alternative to upload your photos to website which is running proprietary garbage. Just use Adobe if you are going to do that.

I strongly prefer local software, but as someone coming from Photoshop who now only does the occasional edit (and therefore can't justify the price), I find Photopea to be a good alternative, especially since it closely mimics Photoshop's interface so I don't have to learn a new UI. Also, your images stay local on your computer and aren't uploaded to their servers.

It's developed by a single guy, which I think is very impressive given how much of Photoshop's functionality it has. I just really wish it were open source (and not a web app).

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

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If you trust Russian developers

Because there're no russian developers almost everywhere?

There's a difference between having Russian devs and being made by a Russian company that supports war.

OnlyOffice is made by a Russian company that doesn't condemn war of aggression that Russia wages against Ukraine.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j7zlf2/onlyoffi...

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

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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.

How about OpenAIs whisper[0]? My social science friends tell me it‘s been great for them. Not sure whether data privacy et all would be an issue of course, but I guess you can just run it locally :)

[0]https://github.com/openai/whisper

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

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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/

> The solution is to run Linux.

that is never the solution. that is the workaround. workarounds are not solutions.

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

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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 foun…

At least in eu, one should be able to access and contest the decisions made to remove your content, I don't know if this is the same outside eu

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

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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/

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

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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/

VLC is a GREAT media player

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

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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…

This situation only exist because Microsoft would allow kernel level anti-cheat in the first place, which is a moronic feat wrt security.
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