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YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

• sharas- 11mo ago
  use bottles.org to run windows apps on Linux. All games run on Linux with it.
  • poisonborz 11mo ago
    Correct url is https://usebottles.com/ https://usebottles.com/
• breve 11mo ago
  The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
  • markwakeford 11mo ago
    Onlyoffice is also not a bad alternative. (docx,xlsx etc)
    • croes 11mo ago
      If you trust Russian developers
      • yehat 11mo ago
        Because there're no russian developers almost everywhere?
        • wiseowise 11mo ago
          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/onlyoffice_is_obfuscating_its_russian_ownership/ https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j7zlf2/onlyoffi...
          • antegamisou 11mo ago
            Thank God all other non-Russian companies not only condemn various atrocities around the globe but even support the affected countries being liberated by developing the high-tech armies of the good guys, right?!
            • wiseowise 11mo ago
              * Company is Russian * Doesn't condemn war (understandable in their position) * Has dev team in Russia * Pays taxes to Russia, which directly fuel war * Does not support UAF or donate to Ukraine (also understandable) * Keeps selling their software in Russia, which might have links to military and administration Am I missing something here?
              • antegamisou 11mo ago
                > Am I missing something here? The fact that all of the above is being presented as an exclusively Russian strategy. When almost all companies mentioned on this website are proudly and directly tied to non-Russian war industries. The tendency to omit pointing out non-Russian examples almost always indicates endorsement of their actions. And let me beat you to this that I condemn all offensive war industries no matter the country of origin. Unlike those who believe it is ok to side with one and not the other even if they do the exact same.
                • krapp 11mo ago
                  If you interact with American businesses, use American technology or pay taxes to any Western government, you're indirectly funding genocide, slavery, wanton environmental destruction and countless other crimes by the US, its allies and corporations. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, none of our hands are clean. We all deal with our complicity in various ways, and draw our lines in the sand where we will, but at the end of the day survival in this world forces us all to be hypocrites.
      • k8sToGo 11mo ago
        Should I trust American developers?
        • croes 11mo ago
          Isn’t that up to you?
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  • arein3 11mo ago
    Austria armed forces use Libre Office: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Austria-s-armed-forces-switch-to-LibreOffice-10660761.html https://www.heise.de/en/news/Austria-s-armed-forces-switch-t...
    • cm2187 11mo ago
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      • stefs 11mo ago
        is it really that hard to write a report in LibreOffice instead of word? is that more that we can ask of our military top brass?
        • 0points 11mo ago
          Don't fall for the whataboutism trap.
          • stefs 11mo ago
            neither my answer nor ops point is whataboutism. they bring up a valid point: libreoffice is (in their opinion) harder to use and probably lower quality, so reports are harder to write and taking away time from more important things. in my opinion libre office is absolutely good enough for this use case and thus not taking away significant time from other tasks. furthermore, the austrian armed forces are free to contribute to the project to improve the perceived paint points themselves. on the other hand microsoft products are closed source and probably upload data to datacenters outside the customers (i.e. in this case, the militaries) sphere of influence. this may include the data (for storage and or AI training) and meta data (for advertising and telemetry). microsoft may even silently introduce or reactivate (after they've been declined) those options after updates (don't quote me on this, but i think i remember this happening at least once). microsoft apologists may argue that this is only the case for improperly configured corporate deployments, but as the software is closed source nobody can really be sure and if it's that hard to get right, it's a security problem in itself.
  • kkan 11mo ago
    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.
    • N-Krause 11mo ago
      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/2998eacb71ae925515360410af6f0a32 https://gist.github.com/stdNullPtr/2998eacb71ae925515360410a...
      • tsimionescu 11mo ago
        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.
        • thunderfork 11mo ago
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      • AlienRobot 11mo ago
        That is completely irrelevant. Users want the game.
    • hdjfjkremmr 11mo ago
      GIMP can't compete even with the version of Photoshop from 2000.
    • pessimizer 11mo ago
  • baq 11mo ago
    > 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.
    • indigo945 11mo ago
      Writer is awful too. It will randomly mess up formatting, especially in tables. Also in tables, it will insist to try and parse cell values like Calc would (breaking numbers and dates), even though Writer doesn't even provide a way to run calculations on those numbers anyway.
      • buccal 11mo ago
        It does support calculation: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/calculate_intable.html https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide...
      • lousken 11mo ago
        Word is awful too, it messes up formatting, especially when pasting images. Good luck writing anything longer than couple pages. Hasn't been solved in 20 years. Have stopped using word 2 years ago but I am gonna assume it's still an issue
        • MrNeon 11mo ago
          Section breaks keep the formatting changes from affecting the previous/following content so you can place and format images as you wish.
          • dole 11mo ago
            I’d blame this behavior on Office OpenXML becoming the standard in 2007, legendary for generating unnecessary nested tags.
    • distances 11mo ago
      > > LibreOffice is an okay office suite > > writer, perhaps. calc, not even close This really depends on your needs. I'm sure it's not enough for someone who does Excel wizardry for living. But I use it for tracking personal finances and other simple tasks and graphs, and it is completely sufficient. This in my book easily earns it the "okay office suite" badge. To be honest all office suites in the last 20 years have been good enough for most small scale needs, including OpenOffice back in the early days.
  • LogicHound 11mo ago
    The 90% of games running on Linux does not say how well and what games. Sure I can play the Batman: Arkham Knight perfectly on Linux. However the game is a decade old now. Try playing some titles that came out this year and it going to be very variable, multiplayer titles are often a no go at all due to anti-cheat. You can argue to you are blue in the face about kernel level anti-cheat but at the end of the day if all your mates are playing X, you are just going to suck it up and play X. There is enough issues running games on Linux that there are specific distros created for running games because everything from the kernel version, X/Wayland, Compositor and the pipewire version can affect immensely how well the game runs.
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    • mikkupikku 11mo ago
      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.
      • LogicHound 11mo ago
        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 with Hell Divers 2 that was only fixed with an update to pipewire. Performance issues were solved by upgrading to Kernel 6.16. On Windows I had to do literally nothing for the game to work perfectly (also don't believe some of YouTubers that are complaining HD2, their PCs were actually broken!). Generally on Windows I have to do very little to get a game to work, outside of extremely old games from the late 90s/early 2000s.
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  • ahoka 11mo ago
    I would recommend Krita over GIMP.
    • ncake 11mo ago
      or https://photopea.com https://photopea.com
      • constantcrying 11mo ago
        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.
        • Lalabadie 11mo ago
          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.
        • martin- 11mo ago
          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).
      • strathos 11mo ago
        or https://pixieditor.net/ https://pixieditor.net/
        • wetpaws 11mo ago
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  • ethin 11mo ago
    If only. Accessibility on Linux isn't as good as it is on Windows. It's getting better, but there are so few people actually working on it that it will take quite a while to get there. Which results in anyone who uses Linux who needs accessibility to suffer very weird problems like not even being able to install it because the installer is inaccessible in some way, or it flat out breaking depending on hardware or because the distro isn't setting obscure env vars that are documented nowhere except for mailing lists that nobody reads anymore, or weird things like that. It's been improving, but really really slowly, and Wayland didn't help things when they for the longest time refused to even consider the possibility of allowing global keyboard access because "security".
    • 4gotunameagain 11mo ago
      Let's be realistic, accessibility — whether you like it or not — is an edge case. This is also why as you said, the amount of people working on it is low. It is really not the limiting factor in Linux desktop adoption. The inherent fragmentation and HW compatibility issues are much more pertinent. Buy the wrong laptop, and you have to fight with X, wayland and Nvidia graphics like a terminally inclined caveman in danger
      • jacquesm 11mo ago
        > Let's be realistic, accessibility — whether you like it or not — is an edge case. Spoken like a true techbro. This attitude is so incredibly destructive. Technology is how we mediate our lives, cutting a very large number of citizens out of that is simply wrong, even if 'the numbers just aren't there' (and they are!).
        • 4gotunameagain 11mo ago
          I have nothing to do with tech bros. Did I advocate for lack of accessibility features ? I just pointed out that in this context there are things far higher in the priority list. Especially given the fact that there are accessibility features, just not on par with windows. Do you seriously believe that improving accessibility would have a higher impact in Linux adoption than improving robustness and hardware compatibility ?
  • jasode 11mo ago
    >The solution is to run Linux. The Linux answer is often repeated but unfortunately, some users depend on various Windows software that only runs properly on Windows. E.g. CAD/CAM, Quicken finance, sewing embroidery, etc can't run in a Linux WINE emulator nor QEMU/KVM virtual machine. And avoiding the WINE/KVM incompatibilities by switching to "Linux-native" software such as Gimp often means having less features and/or not having ability to open old files because they use different formats. Sure, there's the idea that "90% of users just use email and surf the web so they can just get by with a Chromebook" ... true, but there's still a lot of users who can't because they use other productivity software. For me, there's always some unexpected situation that requires a working Windows computer. Last year, I had to do an unplanned firmware update on a digital audio interface via a USB cable. There was no Linux updater. They had a firmware updater for macOS but it didn't work. Based on the tech support forums, I had to download the firmware updater for Windows platform and that finally worked. reply to: >What software do you have that doesn't work in a VM? Example would be software that use hardware USB dongles for DRM. E.g. embroidery software for sewing machines. The passthrough USB emulation to the vm is not invisible enough to fool the software searching for hardware dongles. Another example was Trimble software for LIDAR that depended on DirectX which crashed in a vm. reply to: >A good-enough compromise is a dual boot with a tiny Windows partition for the rare cases That is a very techie solution that's not practical for "normies". Dual-boot creates the "2 os file systems" issue instead of having a single unified disk mount. Windows doesn't have a built-in way to read Linux ext4 file system. Linux doesn't have a bulletproof reliable way to read/Write NTFS partition (various tech forums mention data corruption). Unless one goes external with external NAS hardware and store all documents on an SMB mount -- but that also layers on more technical issues and doesn't work for laptops on-the-go being disconnected from the NAS.
    • thispbowden 11mo ago
      Have you tried PCI passthrough of a USB bus? Worked for me with a device that didn't work with regular USB passthrough.
    • Y_Y 11mo ago
      What software do you have that doesn't work in a VM? Without going to extra effort the environment should be indistinguishable for the application.
  • Paianni 11mo ago
    LibreOffice is ok for reading and making minor changes to existing files but I haven't used Writer or Calc for anything new in years. LaTeX and Gnumeric are my tools of choice.
  • chongli 11mo ago
    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.
    • itsn0tm3 11mo ago
      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 https://github.com/openai/whisper
      • vorticalbox 11mo ago
        you can run whisper locally on your machine.
      • antiloper 11mo ago
        Dragon is an app, whisper is a model with a CLI that takes .wav files. Totally different user experience.
    • bmn__ 11mo ago
      Dragon in Wine. A lot of the Talon users do it that way.
      • chongli 11mo ago
        Okay the fact that Talon Linux use Dragon via Wine successfully is a big vote of confidence. I was reluctant to recommend that to my friend after seeing Wine's status page for Dragon but I'll give it a go!
    • kwar13 11mo ago
      If you run gnome then I made this: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2text/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2tex...
  • mzajc 11mo ago
    Another great media player for those who prefer minimalist UI: https://mpv.io/ https://mpv.io/. Includes yt-dlp integration and a much nicer terminal interface.
    • xethos 11mo ago
      I like the CLI / scriptability of MPV so much better than VLC. Absolutely fantastic.
    • zenoprax 11mo ago
      And much better keyboard control. It can also do interesting things such as run in 1:1 scaling mode (for example, 4K on a 1080p monitor) and then you can use your mouse to zoom in and out (wheel) and Ctrl+drag to pan around. VLC walked so MPV could run.
      • Narishma 11mo ago
        > VLC walked so MPV could run. mpv is a fork of mplayer, which preceded VLC by a year or two.
  • chaz6 11mo ago
    I use Softmaker Office on Fedora/KDE but Excel is the one Microsoft application I would pay for a Linux version. Even the Office Web version doesn't come close (though it is still a vast improvement).
  • naikrovek 11mo ago
    > The solution is to run Linux. that is never the solution. that is the workaround. workarounds are not solutions.
    • lousken 11mo ago
      correct, the solution is to fully switch and use the native software there not wine
  • wetpaws 11mo ago
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  • haritha-j 11mo ago
    VLC is a GREAT media player
    • lousken 11mo ago
      Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff Players like mpv are way better unless you want to use nightly build of v4
      • mikkupikku 11mo ago
        mpv is my choice by a wide margin, but I still recommend VLC to most people because it has the sort of GUI more people are comfortable with.
        • red-iron-pine 11mo ago
          GUI still looks and feels like WinAmp (slap llama, etc.) in both all of the good and bad ways
        • fuzzfactor 11mo ago
          VLC also streams media to other clients, which most players don't do. Not on Android yet though.
      • taneq 11mo ago
        Haven’t tried mpv but VLC is my go to for weird formats and streaming from random rtsp cameras. Maybe it’s outdated but a couple of years ago when I switched over from libffmpeg to libvlc it was because some cameras on site had weird auth problems with libffmpeg but worked when streamed through VLC. I swapped over and now those cameras work.
      • lelanthran 11mo ago
        > Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff Just how new does the new stuff have to be? I use VLC daily (because even though we have 4x streaming services, when I want to watch 3rd Rock from the Sun, it's not on any of them. Some of the very new movies are also not on any of the streaming services, so I am left wondering, if I downloaded a movie that was only torrented a few days ago, just how new does the movie have to be to be unsupported by VLC?
  • BrandoElFollito 11mo ago
    Outlook is what is keeping me away from Linux Desktop.
    • lousken 11mo ago
      Outlook on the desktop is pretty much in maintenance mode only and Microsoft is already breaking it[0]. As for web version runs on linux just fine so you are in luck. In general, unless you need advanced Excel features, you can switch to linux. [0] e.g. https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-cant-help-break-windows-outlook-as-even-opening-an-email-now-sends-it-crashing/ https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-cant-help-break-window... and couple others
      • BrandoElFollito 11mo ago
        We use Exchange on-premises, and the web client is really bad. While email is asynchronous and I can live with not seeing it all the time (I check it occasionally anyway), the calendar feature is a must, and specifically the reminders. This is why I cannot live without Outlook launched, and it reminds me of meetings I would miss otherwise.
        • lousken 11mo ago
          Didn't expect onprem since microsoft has super weird requirements on it since v2019 and haven't properly maintained it for years (except now you are also supposed to pay for it monthly), but if you would suffer with the old web version, you may want to look into Evolution+ews which should be able to handle onprem exchange on linux. Unsure if it supports niche features like public folders but the normal stuff should be covered.
    • etothepii 11mo ago
      And the crazy thing is that while outlook is my life it's also unbelievably bad. Why can't I have the calendar and email client open at the same time? Why don't newly received email addresses appear in the valid auto complete for sending out calendar invites? Why is search practically useless?
  • rzerowan 11mo ago
    I think the main issue for most casual users is the office suite and browser. LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org unfortunately do not cut it for quirky functionality/aesthetics etc. The most polished alternatives Corel and WPS Office only WPSOffice have a ready deb/rpm installer while also having a collaboration feature inbuilt. Corel seems to have decided to concentrate on a windows only Law vertical , whererthey are admittedly not doing too bad. Browsers should do most of whats neeed for the rest of the saas apps even the video collab apps like Teams/Zoom have a browser mode.
    • ta12653421 11mo ago
      cant Office be run in a VM?
      • rzerowan 11mo ago
        Latest Office or Microsoft365 is being turned almost into a Saas wrapper for the online app , while having an always on siphon for your data to the MScloud and ADs, so many intrusive ads all overthe place. If its an older version that works i guess can be usable in a VM , but again this is for your casul office worker/parents etc.The least amount of friction will usually be best for adoption (see how zoom came out on top in the videochat space) [0] https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/microsoft-office-365-declared-illegal-for-german-schools-again/ https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/microsoft-office-365-declared...
  • Tor3 11mo ago
    Japanese Windows software mostly don't run, or does it badly, with Wine on Linux. Unfortunately. I've been a full-time Linux user since 1992 and this frustrates me. Some of the software won't even pass the install stage. I'm forced to run this on wife's Windows 10 PC, which has its own set of nightmarish problems. Japanese software houses develop for one target: Windows. As a rule. They don't really know about anything else, except for the occasional support of Mac from some of them.
    • DaSHacka 11mo ago
      If it's a one-off program, have you tried Winboat or running it in a Windows VM?
      • Tor3 11mo ago
        Installing a Windows VM is not really an option for me for various reasons, but in any case that's just.. running Windows. I don't have a Windows license either so I expect I wouldn't be able to anyway.
        • DaSHacka 11mo ago
          >but in any case that's just.. running Windows. Yes, because as you said these applications only run on Windows. How else would you get around it, if not by running some form of Windows? At least this way, the core system (and 90% of general purpose applications) could remain on Linux. > I don't have a Windows license either so I expect I wouldn't be able to anyway. You can just use the install unlicensed, or, if your computer came with a Windows license (as most do), you can extract it from the motherboard and use it to activate the VM. Not sure if that's allowed in Microsoft's ToS though.
          • Tor3 11mo ago
            What's discussed in this subthread is running Windows applications under Wine. When it's running under Windows there's no discussion to begin with. In any case, I'm not going to try to set up a Windows VM on my Linux computer, I don't have the room or if I had it would be better used for other things. And I just abhor using Windows, whenever I have to use the wife's PC it's hell. For her, too.. she can't find anything after she's saved something, for example. And I don't have a Windows license, never had, my computers are all bare when new. In any case, it defies the whole purpose of not having to run Windows. Now, with Windows 11, it seems to be even worse. And I have zero idea on how to install Windows from scratch anyway - in my case I would probably even have to install a Japanese version, as is installed on my wife's PC. Well, not going to happen.
  • sylens 11mo ago
    Just made the jump to CachyOS on my gaming PC this week. It’s been great so far.
  • TiredOfLife 11mo ago
    > VLC is a good media player VLC is a broken mess and has always been a broken mess.
    • antiloper 11mo ago
      I've never had a VLC problem in decades of using it.
  • egeres 11mo ago
    Unfortunately, that last 10% of games are AAA competitive multiplayer that account for a massive user base who are still dependent on windows to play them (battlefield 6, fortnite, any of the call of duty games from the last 8 years, league of legends, GTA online, apex legends, rainbow six siege...)
    • Ray20 11mo ago
      And in the Linux community, "run" apparently has a slightly different meaning than what ordinary people are used to.
      • LauraMedia 11mo ago
        I thought the same but let's not pretend Windows is a holy grail for compatibility anymore. Especially when it comes to older games, this facade / image breaks down fast. I once tried to play Trackmania Nations (not Forever or United Forever, the ESWC one) because that was the first entry of this series I played. I still have all the files from back then so I thought it would be as simple as installing it and running it. Other games such as Trackmania Sunrise came with the nasty SecureROM DRM that will break your current installs, but ESWC was always free to play and without DRM. Well, after install, I played a lot in my first sitting. A few days later, my Windows install was broken. I used a restore point before installing Trackmania, everything was back to stable. A few weeks later I tried again, same situation, a day or two after install, my Windows would break. I thought it was a general system instability, maybe some weird configuration and the game only triggers that specific bug. So I did a full clean reinstall. And installed the game a few days later. Who would've thought, my Windows breaks yet again. What I'm trying to say is: I've been running Fedora on my main PC for 2 years now and the game has been installed via Proton for 1 year. It never broke, it always just worked.
        • pcdoodle 11mo ago
          I think he means he likes his .exe's, I too like a good exe or msi.
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  • mapcars 11mo ago
    Just my 2 cents: I recently switch from GIMP to Krita, also very good and I find it more intuitive. And VLC is a superb media player, I use it on all platforms for like 10 years, nothing even compares to it.
    • gradientsrneat 11mo ago
      VLC doesn't have gapless playback sadly.
  • belorn 11mo ago
    A more difficult but potentially great solution is to run Linux as a the host system and windows in single purpose containers for each game/program that work better in windows. All the anti-user behavior will only have minimal harm if all the container does is to start windows and then start the game, then close when finished. Ads will not have time to be shown, and telemetry only has game data to give. It can take a bit of trickery to get anti-cheat drm to work.
    • C_Loving_Bones 11mo ago
      What would you use for that? Does docker work or is there a better solution, more oriented towards gaming?
      • belorn 11mo ago
        Level1Linux yt channel talks about this setup in details. I think they are using looking glass and kvm. I have considered to try it out since it would reduce my windows footprint and containerize non-work from work.
  • Imustaskforhelp 11mo ago
    MPV is a better recommendation than VLC and Although I am a huge open source fan, saying gimp is a good image editor is questionable though. I have always preferred pinta for normal usage editing and although this might be shunned but idrc, but sometimes photopea can be also good software. Regarding desktop environmnents, Just try anything you find interesting, KDE,XFCE,Cinnamon etc., you would be shocked by how snappy/minimalist somethings like XFCE are. Personally I am on hyprland in cachy os.
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  • flipthefrog 11mo ago
    Gimp is NOT a good image editor for someone who uses Photoshop professionally. This idiotic claim keeps coming up, year after year, along with suggestions for opensource replacements for InDesign, Illustrator, LightRoom - there really really arent any valid opensource alternatives to most creative software apart from Blender, and Krita for a linited subset of what Photoshop covers. I would have switched to Linux immediately if it wasnt for Adobe
    • devnullbrain 11mo ago
      That may be true but, as you've not given any reason, it will come up again next time.
  • IAmBroom 11mo ago
    How fresh and original! Someone making a joke in a thread about Windows, suggesting that everyone abandon Windows for Linux. Well, I am certainly chuckling now. That is a joke I have never heard before, but I get it! How witty you are. Tee hee.
  • GaryBluto 11mo ago
    > GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ https://www.gimp.org/ Modern GIMP doesn't have the features that Photoshop 6.0 had 25 years ago, and GIMP had a 5 year head-start on it.
    • hilbert42 11mo ago
      Yeah, right. I've the latest GIMP 3 on both Windows and Linux and an old CS4 Photoshop which I stopped updating years ago because of Adobe's ripoff prices and I continually find myself falling back to Photoshop because it's easier to use than GIMP (I'd prefer to switch to GIMP completely if it were easier to use). Unfortunately, the authoritarian PIAs that develop GIMP have a rigid and inflexible mindset that stop GIMP becoming the default for millions of Photoshop users and or those who cannot afford Adobe's outrageous prices, and those who can no longer accept its draconian licensing terms. In short, millions would switch to GIMP on Linux if it worked 'properly'. I don't know why the Linux community doesn't put more pressure on GIMP's developers to comform. The percentage of Linux desktop users would increase considerably if they would. Look at it this way: here's just one GIMP issue that turns away Photoshop users: why did GIMP's developers remove the perfectly functioning Fade feature in GIMP? Yes, I know their stated reason and I also know the workaround but it's a damned nuisance to use. By removing the Fade feature GIMP's 'high minded' developers have effectively done what mathematical types tried to do with the calculator when they introduced RPN/Reverse Polish Notation in place of the standard way of entering data. Except for mathematicians, engineers, etc. RPN failed spectacularly—sure it is better but just too hard for mere mortals to grasp. The bloodymindedness of GIMP's developers are deliberately holding back GIMP's adoption. They could have easily left Fade in place and just added their fancy sophisticated option for their propeller-head brethren to use. Fixing some of GIMP's problems seems so obvious I sometimes think Adobe has placed a Trojan on GIMP's team to thwart competition.
      • hilbert42 11mo ago
        Afterthought. Contemplating the above post a day later and thinking "yeah, right, that's typical me in hyperbolic mode when annoyed" but on refection would I change it? No, I wouldn't; because I'm still annoyed and my frustration goes deeper than just GIMP and its developers, my issue is that the problems that plague GIMP also plague much open source software and we need to find solutions. First, I'm a vehement supporter of FOSS and the need for more choice in the marketplace even if that means having more commercial software to choose from. As I see it, much of the key software (Windows, Android, MS Office, Photoshop, etc.) that monopolizes market now does so because of Big Tech's market domination—not necessarily because it's the best available. It's the sheer domination of the software ecosystem by Big Tech that's the problem, thus good open source products such as Linux, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc. all struggle to get a mainstream airing irrespective of quality. It's clear to me there are several important reasons why open source has not achieved a wider penetration amongst more general/less technical users. From that perspective FOSS software suffers from a fundamental and systemic problem which is it's principally developed by people who like developing code for its own sake who then open-source it for free. Without the monetary incentive one doesn't have the right to demand of them the form software should take. Dictating how software should work and or what features it must have would serve little or no purpose, if they'd disagree they'd either ignore you or just pack up and leave the project. The problem is obvious, FOSS developers are skilled and it's that skill that directs the way they'll tackle a project—thus the software ends up working their way and with features they reckon it should have—and more often than not this is in direct conflict with the way ordinary nontechnical users want it to work. Despite my narky comments about GIMP's developers, I understand that in their technical judgment they had good reason why they omitted the Fade feature and I accept they are under no obligation to include a feature that from their perspective is out of place and does not logically dovetail with other features. Given also they're offering their time for free then there's really not much one can object to in the circumstances. Nevertheless, that FOSS developers first and foremost develop software as they see fit and from their perspective and that that view often clashes with the requirements of nontechnical users poses a serious conundrum for open source software. The upshot clear: if ordinary users see no real advantage and or find it too difficult to convert to FOSS then it won't attract the number of users it deserves. With commercial software user requirements are often determined by marketing based on user demand and programmers are obliged to program accordingly. When Microsoft says "we're about to start on yet another GUI for the next version of Windows" the choice is stark—knuckle down or leave. Without the monetary incentive, FOSS is at a significant disadvantage. Let me offer my own perspective here. I am an IT professional and have been for decades. Moreover, I've headed an IT department where help-desk was a key service and from experience I know how difficult it is to get users to adopt new software packages, especially so when the replacement package offers essentially the same features, for example, replacing MSO with LibreOffice often meets with stubborn resistance. Even I get annoyed when I have to change software and I find the UI and or features are noticeably different to what I'm used to. I'm an Arch user so I'm used to tweaking Linux et al but I deal with hundreds of different packages on Linux, Android, Windows and other setups and it's dead easy to forget the idiosyncrasies of a package that one hasn't worked with for several months. Having to relearn its features and quirks because its so different to what one was working on only moments before is not only time consuming but also a damn nuisance. So from my perspective standardization is just about everything. Trouble is programmers all to often consider themselves 'artists' and unnecessarily keep reinventing the wheel. Look at the outrageous plethora of Windows GUIs. MS started out well by adopting IBM's well thought out CUA (Common User Access)† then essentially abandoned it for others that were often grossly inferior—think Metro for instance. And what about MSO's 'Ribbon'? The heretic(s) who devised that should have been condemned to time in the stocks. The unmitigated fucking hide of them to force millions of users to waste millions of manhours relearning functions that didn't need to be relearned. What is so outrageous was that after mandating the change to the 'Ribbon' those authoritarian shits at Microsoft could easily have left the old GUI there as a fallback option—but they didn't! Who paid for those millions of wasted hours? Right, it certainly wasn't Microsoft. This kind of outrageous and unacceptable behavior is why it's so important that FOSS be easy to convert to and be as compatible with the commercial product as is possible. With its Windows monopoly MS can afford to experiment with GUIs and weather the changes when they fail and still survive unscathed but I'd contend that in this regard FOSS is much more vulnerable. In this regard we've witnessed a long lineage of failures in converting Windows users to Linux due to compatibility issues, despite the Linux brotherhood praising its simplicity the fact is that Linux is just too different to Windows for millions to make the leap. The problem is further compounded with the myriad of Linux distros available—and I'd venture that most Linux diehards have no idea the fear that that number of distros generates in newbies. FOSS developers should heed the message. I am firmly convinced that the lack of consistency across FOSS development and its failure to adhere to uniform standards in the many instances where it's possible and logical to be consistent is a major impediment to its widespread adoption. The other impediment slowing down FOSS adoption harks back to the fact that open source is free and without monetary incentives is that there are no guarantees that a FOSS project won't end up as abandonedware. I've long advocated a halfway revenue-neutral measure where certain FOSS projects only offer the source for free and charge a small nominal amount for binaries with licenses stipulating that one's only allowed to compile the source for one's own use—distribution thereof is prohibited. It seems to me most users would prefer to pay a small nominal amount of say $10 or $20 for the binaries. That way, developers could receive some recompense for their work, then they would have both the incentive to remain with the project and also likely to be more responsive to users' requirements. I know I'm not alone in coming to these ideas, after I posted the above comment I came across this HN story that addresses very similar issues: "Free software scares normal people" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760878 I'd urge you to read it. ___ † https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
  • not4uffin 11mo ago
    I run two partitions: one for gaming (windows) and one for everything else (linux)
• mikkupikku 11mo ago
  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.
• gverrilla 11mo ago
  How viable is it to stay in Win10?
  • breve 11mo ago
    You can buy extended security updates for Windows 10: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended...
    • mschuster91 11mo ago
      In Europe it's free although you have to log in with a Microsoft account for... reasons.
      • nonethewiser 11mo ago
        to prove you're from Europe probably - right?
        • mschuster91 11mo ago
          Indeed, yes.
  • N-Krause 11mo ago
    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.
    • netsharc 11mo ago
      I stayed on Win7 until December 2023, until there was some exploit that was attackable by just viewing an image, so just browsing the web would've made it vulnerable (I believe in the WebP format). Although it seems there are people still Frankensteining Win7, and even patching DLLs to make the newest browsers/apps still run on it. Famously MS Teams was really screwed up, but I had to use it for work..
• aquir 11mo ago
  The best time to buy a MacBook Air (or Pro) or a Mac mini! Much less BS and you take it out of the box and use it within 5 minutes.
  • jaggs 11mo ago
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  • jinwood 11mo ago
    The problem with this is Tahoe.
  • eltopoloco 11mo ago
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  • yehat 11mo ago
    Exactly, with the caveat I'm buying very cheap pre-M1 Mac to put Linux on it. Works well.
    • hu3 11mo ago
      it might work well today for m1/m2 but the writting is on the wall for linux in newer macs. asahi development slowed down and is getting further away as apple releases new malcs yearly. i don't think this is a good bet for those who want to use linux.
    • chithanh 11mo ago
      The later Intel Macs with T1/T2 chip also come with a number of caveats on Linux. Don't expect those to work out of the box with standard Linux distros.
  • jacquesm 11mo ago
    The better solution is to buy an x86 laptop and install Linux instead. All of these empires are just milking us.
  • elsjaako 11mo ago
    The videos being taken down here are about how to avoid: Windows requiring a Microsoft account to install, and Windows only being installable on compatable hardware. AFAIK an apple account isn't strictly required, but a lot of MacOS won't be functional without one. How is a Macbook better than Windows in these senses?
• api 11mo ago
  Why bother? Run Linux or get a Mac.
  • eadmund 11mo ago
    Some motherboards only support firmware updates applied from Windows. In 2025, which is just crazy to me.
  • LogicHound 11mo ago
    I am a die-hard Linux guy and I have to use Windows for certain things. One of those is multiplayer games. I am never buying a Mac. I've owned 4 macs over the last 20 years and I've regretted every purchase.
    • mentos 11mo ago
      I've only ever used windows. Recently got a mac mini so I could compile for iOS. I'm debating embracing the entire Apple ecosystem given I use iPhone. Not a huge fan of iCloud's pricing though. Curious what issues you ran into with your macs/Apple experience?
      • le-mark 11mo ago
        For me it was the keyboard shortcuts and mouse behavior differences. That plus the homebrew weirdness trying to emulate Linux package management. I decided to just use Linux. Ultimately, Linux is a development environment for Linux, and by extension the most developer friendly OS imo.
        • Esophagus4 11mo ago
          I’ve gotten used to the mouse behavior and keyboard shortcuts. One thing that drives me nuts about Linux is that application support generally isn’t as good as Mac. For example, there is no Claude Desktop app for Linux nor an Apple Music desktop app. If you need those, you’re using somebody’s hacked together project that half works, a web version with limited features, or paying for a third party app.
• teekert 11mo ago
  Your computer is not yours citizen. Stop your disobedience.
• subscribed 11mo ago
  OK, I really hope they were downloaded and will spread on other platforms like vimeo, dailymotion and especially The Internet Archive?
• a5c11 11mo ago
  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.
  • JohnLocke4 11mo ago
    Convention and the terminal holds it back. A terminal looks like the 1970s but feels like the future
    • luma 11mo ago
      I'd rather suspect it has a lot more to do with 40+ years of application backward compatibility and the ludicrous stack of software available for the platform.
    • xtiansimon 11mo ago
      > “terminal holds it back” Presumably the it here is Linux? That’s not what I would have said. The terminal makes maintaining your own systems much easier because it’s all text. Opposed to having to mix screen shots and instructions. Which is to say, I don’t imagine people who can’t handle the terminal (and are on Windoz) are doing any maintenance or configuration beyond a few GRRR items they’ve convinced themselves is ultimately intolerable. From a small business I’d say what keeps the accounting office on Windoz is software (ie. quickbooks, excel). But a close second would be tighter integration of file management and core office apps (ie email). It’s very easy to rename, move, copy, files on windows. You can perform many of these file management tasks inside an app experience (ie saveas dialog box). Apple has the mindset with their suite of Apple productivity apps, Chromebooks are very easy for general users to get their head around. If Linux could roll up a Chromebook environment with a QB clone into an expert system (e.g. no. We don’t need pictures, videos or games folders), I think our firm would consider the switch. It would certainly have the appearance of stability productivity, and simplicity which is always a plus when your job is not maintaining IT systems. (Now we just need to find new outsource IT for troubleshooting)
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• joduplessis 11mo ago
  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.
  • breve 11mo ago
    Guide for setting up KDE like macOS (or you can install a macOS theme): https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-like-macos-using-kde-plasma/ https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-l...
    • bsimpson 11mo ago
      As a lifelong Mac user, I'm mildly tempted to do something like this in SteamOS, but with limited real estate: two panels feels like potentially wasting pixels, and the bottom edge is probably easier to reach on a touchscreen gaming handheld. I'll do some tweaking, but the ultimate UX has to feel right on this device, not just familiar to what I use elsewhere. Plus, I mostly use Desktop Mode for Chrome, which doesn't really use the menu bar. But I appreciate the share!
    • MangoToupe 11mo ago
      Obviously missing things: 1. Needs to fix keybindings, including setting readline shortcuts across all gui textfields. May be effectively impossible with so many gui toolkits floating around. 2. Needs a gui to manage configuration of startup items, login items. 3. Portable application distribution rather than futzing with installing a third party package source (may be effectively impossible for gui apps). 4. Cleaner systemd configuration tooling and especially documentation, even if it can't be expressed via a gui. 5. Cleaner process management. 6. Cleaner user management via GUI. The look and feel mostly doesn't matter tbh; you'll just end up with something that looks like macos but still mostly functions like windows but without consistent keybindings or behavior or system management.
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• kgwxd 11mo ago
  Oh no, all the 10 minute videos that should be 10 bullet points in plain text?
  • IAmBroom 11mo ago
    Plus ads?
    • kgwxd 11mo ago
      I'm not supposed to interact with non-Premium members but, yeah, I forgot about those :)
• alyxya 11mo ago
  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 https://youtu.be/vQ-RXzzU9u0
  • amarcheschi 11mo ago
    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
    • alyxya 11mo ago
      I imagine youtube has the same automated system comply with eu, but the videos linked in the reddit post mention how quickly the appeals were denied, so accessing and contesting decisions alone doesn’t fix the automated system problem.
• keepamovin 11mo ago
  I made some videos of installing Windows 95, 98 and NT on DosBox-X on macOS ARM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RBMSW1B6hKk https://youtube.com/watch?v=RBMSW1B6hKk And a GitHub repo: https://github.com/BrowserBox/windows-dosbox-x https://github.com/BrowserBox/windows-dosbox-x I tried different AIs to make the scripts to automate installs in DosBox-X as long as you have a product key and ISO or other media. Most interesting to me was the different quirks between OSeS. NT was the most tricky in getting to work on DosBox-X and syncing up internet, IIRC. But overall a very fun project. Brings back nostalgia of 3.5" disks and seeing those install screen. Very cool times in the 90s ha! :)
• sd9 11mo ago
  In my domain (motorsports), almost all software is ancient 3rd party stuff only available as windows desktop apps. I’ve tried emulators but performance is abysmal for these apps. There are also all sorts of weird networking things that don’t work. And generally when you work with a new team which has a different tech stack, there just isn’t time within the context of a race weekend to faff. I’m unfortunately locked in.
  • agigao 11mo ago
    Try Omarchy with Windows VM: https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/100/windows-vm https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/100/windows-vm
    • sd9 11mo ago
      Thank you. I haven't tried this. I'll look into it.
      • noir_lord 11mo ago
        It’s just arch with an opinionated hyprland setup and some glue, which is fine as far as it goes but don’t expect miracles. Not knocking it I’m sure it has value to developers who want a more turnkey setup for common dev setups.
  • herbstein 11mo ago
    I hope you don't mind being a bit curious about this, as a hobby driver. At what level of motorsports are you working? It sounds like you both semi-regularly work with new teams. And are you working with them as a programmer? I'd be curious to know what kind of applications you're then working on, if so.
    • sd9 11mo ago
      I work primarily with GT3 teams across the highest level championships (WEC, IMSA, DTM, GTWC, ALMS), with a variety of manufacturers. With a small team of software engineers and data scientists, I'm building a cloud based motorsports data analysis platform which eliminates the friction involved in handling motorsports data and the differences between different manufacturers' software systems, and quickly gives drivers & coaches insights on how to improve their driving. So this involves getting into the weeds of a lot of this legacy software. There are a few teams I work more closely with where I've set up their entire trackside network/tech stack, although nowadays I'm more focused on the software. Over the years I've done a bit of everything at the track, up to and including physically laying cables in a bare garage or setting up the systems on the car, although I don't do anything related to vehicle dynamics.
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• naikrovek 11mo ago
  The number of Linux fanboys coming out of the woodwork to complain about Windows (and to provide anecdotes about Windows which are clearly exaggerated) is very high. Please read the Linux Advocacy HOW-TO. Shitting on Windows and MacOS does not make you look authoritative, honest, or credible. It makes you look like you have a very strong opinion and shut off from anything that does not conform to your opinion.
  • mumber_typhoon 11mo ago
    Windows and macOS will happily do everything they can to take your money and keep you in their ecosystem but shitting on them is a crime ?
    • naikrovek 11mo ago
      no, of course not. I swear to God, reading comprehension among Linux fans falls lower and lower every year. shitting on them makes anything you say about a competing operating system appear like fully biased opinion, rather than fact. if you want people who you have not already captured to listen to you, you must do your best to appear unbiased. shitting on anything is 100% bias. and if you have opinions like that, how can someone you're trying to win over trust that the positive things you're saying about this other thing aren't also 100% opinion? Stick to the facts if you want to ever hope to do anything other than make Linux fans appear like they are rabid dogs who attack anything they don't like on sight. You can do that if you want, I don't care. But I don't go to rabid dogs for their opinions when it comes to choosing things, and no one else does either. You say things like this to get a mob going, and I want you to admit that. you all shit on things you don't like because you want to feel heard by others who also shit on those same things. but people who aren't like that come here and they read this stuff, too. And you're shitting on them in the process.
      • IAmBroom 11mo ago
        You're using reason to argue with a fanatic. Let them go; they're on a roll.
• sharas- 11mo ago
  Is this year of the Linux yet?
• WhereIsTheTruth 11mo ago
  The parody of Techno-feudalism
• Havoc 11mo ago
  Thank you Microsoft for your efforts towards making year of the Linux desktop a thing
  • itomato 11mo ago
    Set your sights on GitHub, VSCode and npm.
• 101008 11mo ago
  They have been taking down a lot of YouTube videos with Bob Dylan botlegs in the recent days, so maybe the platform is becoming more restrictive with everything, not just Windows 11 installs
  • FergusArgyll 11mo ago
    The times they are a-changin'
  • sigwinch 11mo ago
    It’s possible AI moderation called the Windows videos unsafe. Next might be routine car maintenance.
  • ksherlock 11mo ago
    The Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 will be released on Friday. If it's material in that timeframe, it's probably a Sony/Columbia DMCA issue or from google music file matching songs that are (soon to be) officially released.
    • 101008 11mo ago
      Yeah, no, they've been taking down a lot of material that's not included in tthe new bootleg series.
• PeterStuer 11mo ago
  Fwiw I had to report one of those "free win11 activated" videos as it was having users download and run a script from a suspicious source and handing full domain admin to a 3rd party.
• codeulike 11mo ago
  This is probably youtuber drama about some random youtube algorithm led takedown and likely nothing to do with Microsoft or the actual content of the video that got taken down
  • FugeDaws 11mo ago
    it literally is this. Nothing to do with Microsoft, it's youtube relying on AI to take down videos now
    • nonethewiser 11mo ago
      Seems very plausible. Still, you wonder why it got flagged.
      • FugeDaws 11mo ago
        possible confusion with pirating software i guess
• itomato 11mo ago
  A game is fun. Software that prevents you from doing what you want with it is neither of those things.
• kotaKat 11mo ago
  Step 1: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ Set up an unattend script how you want it to install Windows 11 Education, the only sane build of W11 with most AI shit turned off. Step 2: Install W11 with the autounattend.xml. Step 3: Powershell as admin -> irm https://get.activated.win https://get.activated.win | iex
• Brett_Riverboat 11mo ago
  For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter. Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter. Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter. Next type "regedit" and press enter. This opens registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE" Delete "DefaultAccountAction", "DefaultAccountSAMName", and "DefaultAccountSID" Right click on "LaunchUserOOBE" and rename it to "SkipMachineOOBE" and make sure the value is set to "1". Close registry editor and type "shutdown /r /t 0"
  • huflungdung 11mo ago
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  • xd1936 11mo ago
    There's that Microsoft UX we know and love!
    • esbeeb 11mo ago
      People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux. But they don't similarly complain about these ultra obscure, ugly commands. When Microsoft necessitates commands, somehow it's different.
      • mcintyre1994 11mo ago
        You're not supposed to do this, this is to get around a restriction on installing Windows 11 on certain hardware. If your computer is supported and you install it the way Microsoft wants you to, then you won't be typing any commands anywhere.
• sgjohnson 11mo ago
  When the $699 MacBook launches, oh boy it's going to sell well.
  • bigyabai 11mo ago
    People say this every time. There were people on HN who thought the M1 Macbook Air would permanently cannibalize PC market share, and basically nothing happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_computer_vendors#2020s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu...
    • sgjohnson 11mo ago
      It won't "cannibalize" the PC market share. But I would argue that the overall market share is irrelevant. Most people don't even use Adblock/UBlock for Web browsing, so they don't even know what's best for them, and therefore are likely to just go for the cheapest option that gets the job done. Apple won't win them over, because that's not how Apple operates. Another huge segment is people who just use whatever their work provides. Laptop users who 1. care enough, 2. have the means, and 3. have the inclination to even get a personal laptop are a solid minority. Which coincidentally is how Microsoft gets away with the disaster that Windows 11 is. They have about _no_ user-customers left. I know plenty of PC-hardliners that have switched from Windows to a Mac in recent years. And exactly nobody who has switched in the opposite direction. I'm also pretty sure that most people who have personal laptops keep them around for 5+ years before upgrading. I myself had a 2015 15" MacBook Pro that lasted me until 2022 when Ventura support was cut off. I only upgraded it in 2023 when Apple launched Advanced Data Protection, which I was very keen to use, and had to make a choice between logging out of iCloud or buying a new MacBook. So seeing that the 2015 model had indeed reached it's useful life for me, I got myself a M2 Max 16", which I also fully expect will last me 7+ years. So as long as IT procurement in most companies will keep buying whatever cheap PC laptops they can by weight, PC market share is safe, and Microsoft is doing the best they can to keep it that way. Apple can only compete for users who have the will and the choice. And the $699 MacBook will quite likely capture a few of them. Additionally - I have a PC too. All it does is it runs videogames. In fact I use my personal PC a lot more often than I use my personal MacBook.
• maglite77 11mo ago
  Does anyone have links to "how-to's" for Linux in the enterprise? Password/MFA management, central app management, the equivalent of group policy, device management, etc.? IME, these are the areas in the enterprise where Windows "wins" with the IT teams, but it's been a long time since I've been close to the rollout side of the house. TIA
  • whalesalad 11mo ago
    There isn't really a polished and comprehensive singular thing to accomplish this the same way you would with Active Directory in Windows world. Then again, AD is really not a polished thing either its more of a duct-taped stack of crap. Mirroring "the unix way" it is often a collection of single-purpose tools composed together to achieve the desired goal. Samba is quite powerful these days, it does more than just SMB sharing. FreeIPA is another software tool that I believe is more common in Red Hat deployments.
  • antiloper 11mo ago
    Closest is probably RedHat Satellite: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite
• mrweasel 11mo ago
  My understanding was that you can install Windows 11 Pro, and tell it that you want to join a domain and in that case you're prompted to create a local account. That generally seems like the easiest option, even if the $45 price difference seems a little much.
• foofoo12 11mo ago
  Youtube also took down videos for Adobe a few months ago and HN deleted posts/comments about it: https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/google-adobe-appear-abusing-copyright-151439069.html?guccounter=1 https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/google-adobe-a...
• jajuuka 11mo ago
  Considering I can find plenty of nonstandard Windows 11 install guides on youtube I don't think this guys video was taken down for that reason. Most likely hit with automated moderating and he probably said "kill" in the video while giving instructions. That could trigger the violence filter and now he gets tons of more views from idiots thinking Microsoft and Google are working together to protect Win11 from a supposed massive wave of people going around the sign in requirement. Or whatever other grievence they have with Windows.
  • codeulike 11mo ago
    Exactly, such a lot of pearl-clutching going on in this HN thread, its just a random algorithm-led youtube takedown
• jpalawaga 11mo ago
  One thing I do not understand about HN and other online tech communities is how much they hype up linux as some paragon of usability and ease of use, when it's just obviously not the case. "You don't need windows for gaming, 90% of games work on linux!" -- except the 10% that DON'T are all of the new, massive titles that people want to play. It's like saying "90% of the gears in the car work fine, just not 1st gear". "There are 0 driver problems" -- obviously not true as some hardware only ships with windows hardware. Yes it's true your new network card or mouse won't have issues, but a lot of hardware simply doesn't have support, and a lot might be supported if you spend enough time fanagling. "it's just as easy use as windows or mac" -- until you need to change one of many settings that hasn't been included in a control panel, because linux users have been more than happy to drop to config files and cli usages to tweak things (i.e. lots of stuff left out of system GUIs) I don't know why people do this. Especially in communities that are technical (and thus tend to be "technically correct" about things), why people essentially lying (by omission, if nothing else) about Linux?
  • Nifty3929 11mo ago
    I was with you until "essentially lying." That's not fair. You can disagree - but calling people liars who express good faith beliefs is uncalled for. Many people genuinely believe that Linux is the better desktop OS. But yeah, I run Windows as my daily-driver for pretty much the reasons you give.
    • IAmBroom 11mo ago
      OK, they aren't lying. They're just saying untruthful things to support their cause. Linux is not a 100% replacement for Windows, and the reverse is equally true. LibreOffice is not MS Office except for being open-source. Your pocket tool is not functionally equivalent to a full toolbox. A turducken is not a pheasant. Etc.
  • bigyabai 11mo ago
    > the 10% that DON'T are all of the new, massive titles That's not true? Arc Raiders, arguably the most-hyped game of 2025, is day-one compatible with Linux devices. I played the Server Slam free weekend on my NixOS machine, clearly not all of the new massive titles are broken. You can't abuse hyperbole like this while accusing other people of lying.
• npteljes 11mo ago
  I wonder if they supported piracy as well in those videos, or something breaking their EULA or something. People always come out swinging, fuck corpos, etc, but oftentimes there is something shady going on as well, either consciously, or unconsciously.
• indymike 11mo ago
  It's as if the web as we known it has outgrown it's usefulness to individual people beyond interacting with companies and government. Time for something new. No idea what, but we need a way for people to share with people... That's what made usenet, then the web so awesome. Both were mostly wrecked by the same commercialization.
  • randomNumber7 11mo ago
    > Time for something new How should that look like and what could one make differently? What we currently have could easily used to share with people (like it was years ago). Nothing really changed but people use it differntly now...
    • another_bear 11mo ago
      I like to think ActivityPub is a good candidate.
  • Terr_ 11mo ago
    In my bright-eyed geeky youth, I kept thinking that clever technology was usually enough to solve problems. Nowadays, I feel many problems are emergent from economic and legal structures, and a new software project is often just temporarily treating a symptom.
• antiloper 11mo ago
  90% of software does run on Linux, but if the software you really care about/need for your job/need for your hobby doesn't, then it might as well be 0%. You are going to use Windows then.
  • jacksavage 11mo ago
    We need a Linux Subsystem for Windows
    • insane_dreamer 11mo ago
      if only WSL existed ...
  • zzo38computer 11mo ago
    In some cases, you might be able to find (or write) an alternative program (or modify an existing one to do what is needed). This is not always so easy, but sometimes it can be done, and it can sometimes be done better than the Windows version. (It is what I did with the one Windows program I did want to run on Linux.)
• gethly 11mo ago
  Windows 11 is definitely not in my future so I do not care about this, but it's the same crap as when they removed downvotes due to Disney and Biden's Whitehouse getting ratioed to hell. YouTube/Google is not your friend and does not care about you. As long as you understand that, you should not be surprised as you always expect things like this.
• lkramer 11mo ago
  This is actually a good thing. Competitive Windows is a thing and these people are ruining it for the rest of us.
• klazutin 11mo ago
  Oddly enough, I had the simplest experience of installing Windows 11 25H2 on a new ThinkPad just recently. Apparently the Windows ISO doesn't have the WiFi drivers for that specific machine out of the box, so during setup when it couldn't find an internet connection, it simply offered to create a local account. So I would assume, if there is a way you can temporarily disable networking (e.g. in BIOS), then that would be the easiest way to avoid creating a Microsoft account.
  • auguzanellato 11mo ago
    They already have the local account button, they just need to consistently expose it, even if a machine has a working internet connection.
  • MattTheRealOne 11mo ago
    I wonder if that is something new in 25H2 then. My computer also does not have working network drivers out of the box and when I installed 24H2, it just gave me a screen to install the network driver from a flash drive. There was no way to skip or continue without it.
• SilverElfin 11mo ago
  YouTube and other large platforms should be regulated like public utilities. Otherwise the abuse will continue.
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  • hulitu 11mo ago
    > YouTube and other large platforms should be regulated like public utilities But they are in private hands, aren't they ? Welcome to capitalism my friend. And don't forget to vote on the next election.
    • SilverElfin 11mo ago
      We regulate many privately owned utilities. They aren’t allowed to just deny you power or water based on your politics or pressure from another corporation or whatever.
  • brnaftr361 11mo ago
    There isn't presently a good solution to this. I think regulations like that will probably have downstream effects, kicking the can down the road. Google is already bad enough at government collusion, divulging data, as are other infrastructure providers. Best-case is gutting Alphabet and breaking it up to the effect of decentralization of its pieces. I think if anything regulating the current instruments would just harden their social/political position which furthers their interests more than anything.
  • bodiekane 11mo ago
    Regulations will just make it easier for the powerful incumbents to control what content the platforms are allowed to host. Deregulation is the solution here- get rid of DMCA and all the other laws that are used to bankrupt any competitor to YouTube, so that instead of a single video hosting site, we have tens, hundreds or thousands. The dream of the early web was that everything would be resistant to censorship and centralized control because it was a true network of many independent hosts, globally distributed, independent from the whims of any government. Then we let a few billionaire copyright holders and authoritarians who want to control what is published and seen gradually strangle the open web and replace it with a handful of corporate sites that can be controlled.
• bfkwlfkjf 11mo ago
  Stallman was right.
• Teslazar 11mo ago
  To install Windows 11 with a local user and/or to install it without the TPM 2.0 requirement, what I found easiest was using Rufus to prepare a flash drive with the Windows 11 ISO. Rufus asks if you want to create a local user and what the user name is. It also asks if you want to skip some of the Windows 11 requirements. Then when you install Windows 11 using the flash drive it just works.
  • genter 11mo ago
    Be sure that it's not connected to the internet while installing. Otherwise it will install updates and turn it into a normal install.
  • neop1x 11mo ago
    Like a drug addict. Finding out unsupported ways to get a standard dose of Windooze, despite it now being more toxic.
• b3lvedere 11mo ago
  A bit late eh? That genie left the bottle quite some time ago. And there are still other methods available.
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• CommanderData 11mo ago
  Is Windows 10 LTSC a thing still?