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    • Amju Wolf@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      You don’t need to “crack” anything. Massgrave can activate any version of windows through the official process.

      It technically probably breaks the EULA but no one gives a shit (including MS).

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Have fun! It’s a learning curve, but a very accomplishable learning curve, and at the end you get to say that you don’t use microsoft

  • Carvex@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I use Lemmy and Steam games, someone please recommend a Linux OS and a browser to end this stupid shit for me.

    • methodicalaspect@midwest.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Linux Mint. If my 85-year-old dad can get used to it after over 30 years of Windows, you’ll be fine.

      /edit Also Firefox comes with pretty much every Linux distribution, but if you need something Chromium-based, I’m partial to Vivaldi.

      • Aurora Chrysalis@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        CachyOS has recently stopped playing H264 videos on some websites after a system update.(on Librewolf and other browsers too). Installing ffmpeg4.4 will fix this.

      • starblursd@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Nobara and pikaOS also both good options. I use CachyOs on my main PC and nobara on my htpc and have had a very pleasant time with the distros and their communities. Just gotta leave windows at the door and be open to learning a new way of doing things. Best of luck OP

        and browser I love zen browser and have Vivaldi as my chromium browser of choice when some niche task needs it

        • Damage@feddit.it
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          1 year ago

          I went from Nobara to Bazzite, Nobara worked but felt super janky, Bazzite is on another planet in terms of polish.

          • starblursd@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Bazzite is awesome I just don’t like immutable distros personally. I like to tinker more than they allow. Nobara works great for my htpc but I think if I had to switch from CachyOs on my gaming PC I’d go pikaOS

    • Harvey656@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If you have a Nvidia card, I’ve found mint and neon to be really poor performing. Kubuntu and Q4 have been amathiugh, I wouldn’t use Q4os unless you have low end hardware though.

      That being said mint is just the best os in the sphere for performance and usability, if it runs well for you that would be awesome.

      Libre wolf is an amazing Firefox branch, runs well, super private, good overall, though in my opinion it fails to perform well on beefy websites with alot of visual goodies (like sketch sketchfab and other 3d model websites.) Best to have both Firefox and Libre Wolf.

      On a side note some fun apps to use on Linux I found: qdirstat (winderstat replacement.) Portmaster (take control of what can access your pc via the internet, also has built in dns, a wonderful user interface, its just amazing.) Vencord (yeah I know discord sucks, but its almost impossible to get away from. Seriously I’ve tried to get my friends to use matrix, no Bueno.)

      Also, Plasma is the greatest thing ever. My god is it good.

    • poke@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I’ve had a good experience with Bazzite. It worked out of the box for steam, and the “bazaar” app store built into it had everything I needed. Heroic is in there and good for handling PC games from other stores. Use Proton+ to get the latest Proton GE if you run into any windows game compatibility issues and it may solve them.

    • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Pop!_OS, PikaOS, CachyOS, and Bazzite are the top gaming distros right now.

      I recommend Pop! if you have Nvidia cards. If you have AMD, any of them will work.

      PikaOS or Bazzite with the KDE Plasma desktop are going to be closest to Windows 10 in terms of how you use them.

      Pop! has a super different UI, almost Mac-like. But it’s based on Ubuntu, the most-used distro. Which means that if anything goes wrong you can search “[problem] Ubuntu” and get hundreds of solution pages.

      CachyOS is based on Arch, which is the big, scawy Linux that all the nerds say they use. It’s easier to break than the other ones, and won’t officially offer some of the apps that something Debian/Ubuntu based might have. I would recommend it when you’re looking to get a bit more technical.

      That said, I haven’t broken my install yet and CachyOS is like the fastest OS available right now. Serious FPS gains for a LOT of games compared to Windows, and even other Linux distros. I also have not had to sit and troubleshoot it over anything. I was shocked at how smooth it was for an Arch system.

      So, there’s not really a bad choice in those 4. I’d recommend Pop! if you never want to have to tinker, Pika or Bazzite if you want to feel like you’re still using Windows, and Cachy when you feel comfortable taking some training wheels off (and that could be right now!).

      For browsers, try LibreWolf. It’s a locked-down version of Firefox. Or just use Firefox. It ain’t perfect, but then again it ain’t Chrome.

  • Doublenut@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Ok fine Linux it is. As a person who mostly uses a computer for 3D modeling, drafting and invoicing… what are my options?

    • guismo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What software do you use?

      I worked with 3D for decades and Blender replaced almost everything. The performance is actually better on Linux. I personally use Linux mint, but regarding software it barely matters what distro you use nowadays.

      But support, compatibility, ease of use can vary a lot. I haven’t used another distro for many years so I can’t say much.

      If you rely on autodesk and adobe stuff you will probably suffer. But personally I would say it’s deserved because there are not a lot of companies more evil than them. The sooner you start trying alternatives the better.

      Invoicing I just used inkscape but it’s not great. Be prepared to make some sacrifices, but it’s all worthy to get rid of microsoft.

      • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Invoicing I just used inkscape but it’s not great. Be prepared to make some sacrifices, but it’s all worthy to get rid of microsoft.

        How is Inkscape used for invoicing? You cretate the invoice as vector graphic template and just replace the text?

        I don’t ever do any invoicing myself, so I am not clear on the requirements here. But a template in LibreOffice Draw could perhaps work for this purpose? There might be some way to programtically replace the fields, and if you store client and project details in a database it should eventually be a matter of choosing which client to bill for which project and click “Go!”. I would aim for such a self-made setup to be independent on any license-ridden software. But again, I don’t do this, so I might have missed some important part of the puzzle.

        • guismo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, I don’t know. I know that there are softwares specific for invoicing but I’ve never used one, nor did I use to send too many invoices. Most of the time I was an employee, doing some other freelances, so it wasn’t too much to keep track.

          I used Inkscape because I was more used to it, working with graphics most of my life. LibreOffice is probably easier. But I don’t know how that’s supposed to be done with proprietary softwares either.

          Hopefully someone with more experience on this can help him.

  • ليتني كوري شمالي @lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Even at my workplace I asked HR for permission to switch the office desktop to GNU+Linux. They required the installation of a few malware spyware but otherwise didn’t mind.

    I have been using GNU+Linux on and off since 2007 only using Windows when needed to. Now I’m fully Windows-free and intend to keep it this way.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      About the same for me. Genuinely happy and cant understand why more people dont just install it. Its soo easy these days.

  • tomjuggler@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The great windows 10 shutdown is coming in a couple of weeks and I still haven’t upgraded my wife’s laptop! The main holdup is backing up, it turns out that hibernation need to be disabled in Windows 10 to do a proper backup, otherwise there is some sort of encryption on the backup. I wasted 2 days on this already copying 500GB just in case upgrade fails.

    Upgrading to mint of course!

    • Hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      If you do end up needing some time, check out 0patch. They’re continuing security updates for Windows 10 and you can do a one month trial for free.

    • Amju Wolf@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      There is no “Windows 10 shutdown”. The only thing that was supposed to happen is end of free security updates, but Microsoft already decided to give them for free to everyone.

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Run LTSC /w MAS to activate it while that’s still an option as that and the rest of the Enterprise/IoT SKUs of both Win10 and Win11 still let you make local accounts, or move to Linux if you can and you’re not locked into Windows by anything.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I am waiting for an official SteamOS Desktop release. If I am switching to Linux, I would prefer a gaming-focused PC distro that has the support of an 800lb gorilla.

    If I have to migrate early, say, at the start of a 2nd American Civil War, I will probably use CachyOS. I don’t expect Microsoft to be neutral or to work for the good guys.

    • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      The meat of the work Valve did was with the compatibility layer, not SteamOS itself. This means you can choose any distro you’re comfortable with and games will work as well as they do in SteamOS. I recommend Bazzite.

    • zebidiah@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I ran steamos for a few months on my gaming PC… You can download the iso and run it on just about any hardware (so long as it’s team red).

      Cachyos is better

      The immutable nature of steamos made sure i wouldn’t ever be able to fuck it up, but it also means you cant really sudo anything, plus it’s missing basic PC functionality like printer drivers etc.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      For anyone else on the fence, you don’t need to wait. Lots of distros support gaming right out the box. I switched my gaming desktop (nvidia card) to Pop_OS!, installed Steam, and it just works.

      What factors lead you to select Cachy?