Adobe products: Hello there!
Yeah, you can run them with some heavy modding. I’ve done it with Photoshop 2021 and Premiere 2021. Takes a lot of work and debugging, but it’s doable.
I think that’s Kool Aid.
I was thinking Hawaiian Punch. (I think we may have found a new versioning theme)
There are actually only two kinds of windows apps that don’t run on Linux: Those made not to run on Linux on purpose, and those that were made by so bad programmers that you’ll be amazed how fast the “fixme” messages scroll in the terminal window from which you started wine. I’m working with one of the latter, and I’m happy that I just finished the last project with it. This piece of software is plain shit. And it looks like they don’t intend to fix their shit.
It’s not exactly on purpose, but Wine is still missing a lot of hardware level translation, like native SATA for example, so… 🤷.
I’m not talking about limits in low-level hardware support. I’m talking e.g. about games with anti-cheating software or productivity software with invasive license managers that are made not to run under anything but Windows.
Man, Badlands Chugs is gonna die due to a spectacular cardiac arrest one day. It’s like watching someone gleefully stab themselves in each one of his videos.
Yeah, enjoy that… I’ve tried it enough times to find the process cumbersome and full of troubleshooting. In the right state of mind I enjoy that, but I could never straight up ditch windows as someone who games often. Sometimes you just want to download a new game and play it.
Linux will get there, if things keep going that direction. It’s not there yet, though.
Yeah, enjoy that… I’ve tried it enough times to find the process cumbersome and full of troubleshooting.
But… that’s part of the joy 🤨…
In the right state of mind I enjoy that, but I could never straight up ditch windows as someone who games often.
Who said you have to ditch Windows 🤨. I mostly use Wine so I don’t have to restart and boot into Windows or fire up a VM. It’s just simpler.
I’ve played games on my Linux desktop without so much as even needing to care it’s running on Linux via Steam and Proton for years now, and it’s only getting better. Basically the only games I’ve seen not work are the ones with kernel level
rootkitanti cheat really.
Denuvo drm: allow me to introduce myself
Just find a build with it ripped out / worked around it and play offline?
Honestly DRM is bad and should be rejected. That means no Spotify, Netflix or Denuvo.
Hell, I’m down with that, I don’t use any of that.
Exactly it can be very hard to break away for some people but once you do its a breath of fresh air.
Meeh, I’ve had so many things in life taken away from me at some point that I just stopped caring to be honest 🤷. I just keep an open mind now (or at least try to) and am more like “oh, no more of that huh… ok, let’s see what was next on my to do list”.
My mom always told me “people can take away everything from you, money, status, freedom… one thing they can never take away - your mind”.
I can’t find it now, but there is an Existential Comic that addresses this attitude perfectly. The philosopher is talking about how he always has some form of freedom, so he gets chained to a wall in a dungeon, and then he says “at least I still have the freedom to interpret my situation!”
Ah, yes, I saw that commic somewhere, I think someone posted it on Lemmy, but there was a twist to it at the end… can’t remember what it was, but it was funny 😂.
The person who chained him to the wall asks “And how do you interpret this situation?” He replies “it sucks.”
It should be circumvented, not rejected.
That’s illegal
That’s a good fucking image.
Ummm… not exactly, they sell shit and then take that shit away from you when they see fit. If that’s not illegal, then me circumventing their DRM for my own personal use most definitely isn’t.
Plus, it really is legal to do RCE for your own personal use. It’s illegal to share that info.
I think you are mixing up illegal with unethical. I strongly disagree that any level of DRM warrants piracy. If you don’t like a company having power over you its time to seek alternatives.
This where you and I differ. I can cross that threshold if I’m motivated enough (have done it before). I’d do it just for the f u’s if nothing else. And share it as an ultimate f u.
And piracy is so bad because… It’s illegal?
Yes, and it is unethical as you are totally disregarding the copyright owner. You should buy DVDs and bluerays as that’s the sweet spot for cost vs control.
No.
Have fun consuming media then
It works nowadays.
I hate comments that are like “oh if only Linux could run Whatever” etc. You can have more than one computer (or partition), and you can have more than one OS. Windows isn’t going to divorce you if you spend time with Linux.
No, but it sure is annoying having to switch in the middle of doing something especially when you’re working. (Also, there’s that pesky thing that happened to me as well where windows doesn’t play nice with the Linux boot partition and fucks it up) So there’s always going to be a main os. If you’re fortunate enough you can use an old laptop for windows. Or, if your computer is powerful enough run an windows VM. For me, Gnome Boxes offered a really easy to use experience of running windows. It worked out of the box, no special tweaks.
I installed Garuda on my wife’s gaming machine last autumn, dual boot with Windows. I haven’t seen her using Windows since then, and she said she hasn’t. She loves it btw, says, even better graphics in some games. And KDE is an eye candy anyways.
If you don’t turn on windows of course you won’t have problems.
Your average Wine enjoyer:
Wine works great, blurp…
Lmao… it hurts because it’s true!! Debug these windows stack traces in Linux, here you go!! Exception happened at 0xEBFCEBFCBEBXBDBBWBXBENEKWWLLWLFFMLW
How I learnt there are normal dot net runtime and Desktop runtime.
My first Linux install, I downloaded some tutorial from somewhere, can’t remember where (maybe someone on IRC shared it 🤔… IDK, I can’t remember), and this is litelarly what it said 😂.
You have to be prepared when installing Linux. Take a week or two off work or school and make sure you have the following things at your disposal.
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Find as many bootable floppy’s and as many different dostro CDs as possible. Why? The boot floppy from Debian might work with Suse, but not the Debian CD.
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Make sure you have at least two CD drives and floppy drives at your disposal. The more, the better. Why? You’ll probably burn out the first ones while trying to figure out which boot floppy goes with which distro.
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Have coffee at your disposal all the time. You’re at the bottom of the pot? Pour that in your mug and put a new one on the kettle.
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Stock up on as many different kinds of alcohol you can find, preferably strong stuff. Trust me, you’ll need it.
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That is most likely juice. Bout 5 kg of sugar in that glass by my rough estimation.
Even with good old wine, the friend is still not wrong
Unfortunately, yes…
Windows can’t run Linux apps (wsl is Linux running Linux apps)
Both Linux and Windows can’t run macOS apps.
Just for awareness