• saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Aw, manggg. But I just upgraded to Linux last week. Shoot…

      Back to being treated like an idiot, force fed bloat, having no control over my own PC, and taking four steps to get everything done but often ending up down a rabbit hole of 19 step troubleshooting just to say, “Fuck it! Fine! I’ll accept the new feature” then being toured on the new feature after it crashes first then won’t let you login, but finally you do and THEN you’ve got your file open but forget what for by then, all the while it’s notifying you of updates constantly but you won’t run them because you noticed it contains the AMD driver which is the old one so Adrenaline will stop working but that also means Windows has somehow undone the group policy fucking around you had to and they say Linux is hard while Windows thinks I’m the fucking idiot and I CANT EVEN SHRINK THE FUCKING PARTITION BECAUSE OF THE GOD.DAMNED PAGE FILE IS JIZZED ALL OVER THE FUCKING DRIVE AND- RAAARRRGH!!!

      snaps back

      Huh, sorry. I get flashbacks still. The doctors say with the right therapy, I’ll be better in a year.

    • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This means they forgot platforms other than Windows exists. It’s likely they’re checking for currently supported systems and anything older is insecure, so blocked for your security.

      Likely something like this pseudocode

      function isPlatformVersionSupported(useragent) {
    // Windows XP is NT 5.1
    // Windows Vista is NT 6.0
    // Windows 7 is NT 6.1
    // Windows 8 is NT 6.2
    // Windows 8.1 is NT 6.3
    // Windows 10 and 11 is NT 10.0
    if (useragent.name == "Windows" && useragent.version.match(/Windows NT (6\.3|10)/)) {
        return true
    }

    // TODO: insert supported macos versions here

    return false
}
  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would Honestly just set your user agent to Windows. It is good for privacy and is the default for Librewolf.

  • qwestjest78@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I had a course where the teacher basically said you would have a hard time passing if you did not have a windows laptop because it was the only OS that worked well with their program.

    The program was Excel workbooks

  • Disorder6069@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I ran into this before too, I believe I got around it with a User Agent changer… that or a windows 10 VM with 2 cores and 2GB of RAM that ran only Firefox… or you may be able to just press remind me later and suffer little/no consequences

    I think it’s just because people that use Linux are generally more technologically inclined and are more likely to try and get around their crappy DRM

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “Upgrade?” “UPGRADE?!” Oh no they didn’t.

    Seriously, though, there may well be ways around this without switching your OS. If it’s browser-based, the first thing I’d try is a user-agent switcher.

    Though, actually, does that “remind me later” option work? It does look kindof grayed out, but it couldn’t hurt to try a click.

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They probably check to make sure you’re running a current version of Windows. The code assumes if you’re not on Windows 11, then you need to upgrade.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        they’re not blocking access

        Wait what? Then wtf is the point of that message? “Your operating system is not supported”, except that it totally fucking is.

        • okr765@lemmy.okr765.comOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, and browsers are running the same engines across platforms, so there are very few differences between using Firefox on Linux and using Firefox on Windows. My best guess is what @Chronographs@lemmy.zip said, that it’s just allowlisting new Windows user agents and was intended to target people running ancient versions of Windows.

        • st3ph3n@midwest.socialEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I’d assume it is not supported as in if you ask them for tech support and they realize you’re not running Windows they’ll happily tell you to pound sand.

      • Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m guessing it’s the default message for any non-whitelisted os and it was written assuming you’ll be on an old version of windows and not linux

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I couldn’t even use a virtual machine for my cert I had to use a Friends computer to even do anything and even that it was incredibly hard because I had to disable things to make it work. Fuck Pearson fuck them to hell completely.

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    I had that too, closed the popup and never ran into anything even mildly broken during the entire course. Aside from the popup they don’t seem to be actively sabotaging Linux users, and it’s a website, so it’s gonna work pretty much identically on any OS as long as you’re using a common browser.

    They should definitely phrase the message more like “Your OS isn’t supported, so don’t expect help from us if something Linux-specific breaks our page” than “You need to get a different OS” though.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “Our spyware is not able to accommodate your platform.”

    The horror stories I’ve read about what you give the software access to do (assuming there’s truth to them; I’ve never run it myself).

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s hilarious how bad it is

      I won’t ramble but I’m a cybersecurity professional with a lot of certs and… I’ve played with it.

      Hey Pearson, I have completely defeated your anticheat measures. Ironically, have used my expertise to pass cybersecurity exams. Fight me.

      Hey OP, use a free windows VM. Guess how many monitors your VM has? Guess how many your host can have? Yeah.

      This was 2019, so they may have gotten past that but I tells ya… For folks testing cybersec pros, they sure don’t have airtight opsec.

  • olenko@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

  • SkidFace@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yep, absolutely unnecessary too. I run into this too but there doesn’t seem to be any issue after dismissing it. The audacity to say “upgrade”, I hate Pearson so much and this is barely scratching the surface of their garbage :P