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knightly

@ErikUden
As a service reliability engineer, it is important for me that the software industry abandons Microsoft entirely and moves en masse to reliable, open-source, non-spyware operating systems.

19 Jul 2023 at 17:57 | Wall-to-wall | Open on gulp.cafe
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Erik Uden 🍑

@knightly666 (I'm being serious for a second) This is the only correct way. Even if piracy is so easy, it still makes you, the user, dependent and used to a specific brand of software. From Adobe products to Microsoft's operating system.

youtu.be/TPLR9c3IWlI

This is a good video that shows how in many cases Microsoft's and Adobe's products are easy to pirate because it's better for, e.g. Adobe if people use pirated Adobe Software than if a real FOSS alternative and competitor would rise from the ashes.

19 Jul 2023 at 18:02 | Open on mastodon.de
knightly

@ErikUden
You're preaching to the choir, friend!
Sadly, I've made very little progress in convincing my friends and family to try any kind of Linux. XD

19 Jul 2023 at 18:07 | Open on gulp.cafe
Erik Uden 🍑

@knightly666 I have to switch to Linux this year or I'll never do it. I hope I can make it, wish me luck!

19 Jul 2023 at 18:08 | Open on mastodon.de
Erik Uden 🍑

@knightly666 (I've been switching software to software also supported on Linux to make a switch easier, but still...)

19 Jul 2023 at 18:08 | Open on mastodon.de
knightly

@ErikUden
All the best of luck!
Though, you probably won't need it. The various linux flavors are mostly user-friendly these days.

19 Jul 2023 at 22:03 | Open on gulp.cafe
Stefen Auris 🖖​

@knightly666 as the person providing technical support I found it was in my best interest to have my parents on Linux and I've found more often than not they just need a web browser. The system takes care of itself. I got my grandmother a Chromebook and even though it's not the greatest example of Linux it also has worked wonderfully well.

19 Jul 2023 at 18:13 | Open on furry.engineer
Cynthia ⛧ :american_megatrans:

@ErikUden @knightly666 the only things i use Windows for is anticheat games and Premiere Pro

as far as im concerned there is no foss alternative that does professional video editing work well. i say this having tried all of the available ones

19 Jul 2023 at 18:11 | Open on akko.wtf
Crunchysteve

@ErikUden @knightly666 @whatshisays I wouldn't even pirate Windows or an Adobe product. 2 decades of using various versions of windows at work was akin to torture, especially the audio workstations, which never had real DAWs on them. There's so much better FOSS out there, anyway. Gimp and Inkscape to replace Adobe's crap, Audacity, Ardour and others to replace ProTools, hell, even the open source OSes are better than the commercials. Only reason I still run Mac OS is Logic Pro X and the longevity of their hardware. I'd be Debian in a heartbeat if I could get reliable, generic hardware. Most of the latter built to a price deliberately speed up its failure.

@ErikUden @knightly666 @whatshisays I wouldn't even pirate Windows or an Adobe product. 2 decades of using various versions of windows at work was akin to torture, especially the audio workstations, which never had real DAWs on them. There's so much better FOSS out there, anyway. Gimp and Inkscape to replace Adobe's crap, Audacity, Ardour and others to replace ProTools, hell, even the open source OSes are better than the commercials. Only reason I still run Mac OS is Logic Pro X and the longevity...

26 Jul 2023 at 14:18 | Open on aus.social
Chickerino

@crunchysteve @ErikUden @knightly666 @whatshisays

meanwhile me relying on FL studio because its workflow and stock plugins are very nice and i like them, at least it seems to be able to run in wine although im yet to daily drive linux

27 Jul 2023 at 22:44 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Syulang

@ErikUden @knightly666 IBM took this to the next level in the 1990s. They gave out "trial" versions of OS/2 Warp 4 on CD-ROM. The trial version was crippled with the most BS, easy to crack protection imaginable. So much so that many people cracked it and installed the full version *accidentally*. The reason... get OS/2 into as many peoples hands as possible, as IBM made one last push against Windows. Alas, it was not to be, but it shows IBM was ahead of the game in terms of viral tactics (and OS/2 wasn't a bad OS either - "A better DOS than DOS, and a better Windows than Windows" was quite accurate).

@ErikUden @knightly666 IBM took this to the next level in the 1990s. They gave out "trial" versions of OS/2 Warp 4 on CD-ROM. The trial version was crippled with the most BS, easy to crack protection imaginable. So much so that many people cracked it and installed the full version *accidentally*. The reason... get OS/2 into as many peoples hands as possible, as IBM made one last push against Windows. Alas, it was not to be, but it shows IBM was ahead of the game in terms of viral tactics (and OS/2...

26 Jul 2023 at 14:25 | Open on aus.social
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