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I’ve spent half a day yesterday to set up a VM running Debian on my office’s Win PC. Since I’m tied to Windows because of my proprietary CAD, my plan is to limit my interaction to a minimum and instead do everything else in the Linux-VM. With shared drives and drag’n’drop I hope it will work out. It comes in also very handy that I started years ago to strictly choose open source software that’s available for both platforms - so no learning curve. Since MS won’t listen - we all need to laudly complain about the lack of linux support towards our software providers. And yes, maybe too naïve, it will change something in the long run.
I’ve gone full linux both at home and at work. Thankfully, most of the tools we use are cross platform / FOSS. But in the odd case, I use KVM (the linux equivalent to Hyper-V) to spin up a windows VM
It has it’s issues (like graphics card pass-through), but it works pretty well
Interestingly, the software giant added this check since the Windows 11 24H2 will not boot without these instruction sets, according to a previous report. Though speculative, one would wonder if the company has this extra step in case someone uses bypasses to force the OS to boot with an unsupported CPU.
Why is the watermark the headline
Why is MS targeting specific hardware when windows has historically been a general purpose OS?
I’m switching my machine to Linux this weekend, even if my chip is supported, who’s to say it will stay supported for the next couple of years.
Only targeting new hardware is just a win-win-win for them.
Hardware partners love it, planned obsolescence is just new sales. Legal departments love it, constantly worse DRM. The development teams like it, less support burden. Marketing loves AI being a core feature.
They have no competition. There is no downside for them.
Mac OS is a minor competitor.
In corporate world, where I think MS makes most of the money, windows is the standard (unfortunately).
That’s why I said minor. Design companies, and plenty of website companies use Macs, but that’s a small percentage of overall businesses.
We’re actually shifting our entire workplace. Fuck this shit - both from a hassle viewpoint and content security requirements
One has to wonder how many clock cycles are wasted to render the watermark
Enough to make an Arch user have an aneurysm.
Li-nux! Li-nux! Li-nux! Li-nux!
Given how Linux support for steam has been going I’ve just started migrating everything and just popping in to windows when I have something that doesn’t work.
Yet another reason to toss non-DOS based software.
Lol, year of the Linux desktop here we come XD
201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024 Year of the Linux desktop!😂
Guess Microsoft can buy me a new computer if they want me to use Windows 11.
By getting more people to buy computers they get more window licenses to sell and it’s always been that way, but they’re getting more pushy
But this is making the Windows 11 experience worse, making fewer people upgrade to get Windows 11.
I got a new computer to replace the old windows 10. But the new toy won’t see windows.
They’re treating it like it’s not your computer anyways, might as well get them to foot the bill.
Who knew they were telling the truth after all. When they said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows.
Hi, yeah. Uh long time listener, first time caller. Thank you for taking my question. Yes, I was wondering does Linux do this? I’ll take my answer off the air. Thanks!
This is the Linux equivalent:
Wasnt going to install it anyway so no loss
That’s weird, the watermark says, “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”
My windows 10 already has a watermark to activate it
Too bad I’m on Linux.
I can’t wait for it to be added to activate-linux!
