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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 breve »

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/

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

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Post by markwakeford »

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/

Onlyoffice is also not a bad alternative. (docx,xlsx etc)

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

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Post by croes »

markwakeford wrote: post #3
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/

Onlyoffice is also not a bad alternative. (docx,xlsx etc)

If you trust Russian developers

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

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Post by arein3 »

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/

Austria armed forces use Libre Office: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Austria-s-armed-forces-switch-t...

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

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Post by kkan »

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/

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.

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

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Post by baq »

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.

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

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Post by mikkupikku »

The writing has been on the wall for years. Die hard windows users have been telling me that the increasingly esoteric incantations needed to install Windows without submitting to giving Microsoft your identity are a deliberate and officially supported feature which they can rely on even as the common proles are herded onto Microsoft's plantation. I wonder if any still really believe it. The best time to jump ship is now.
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