Comment by phoenixz@lemmy.ca on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription

[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”

Linux. Again. Install Linux

Ubuntu Linux Debian Linux Fedora Linux Pop!os linux Arch Linux for all i care

Install Linux, stop accepting this bullshit from Microsoft. ALL of their software sucks, they care more about marketing and pulling money out of your pocket than actually giving quality software.

Open source software blows everything Microsoft out of the water, stop accepting the bullshit

ALL of their software sucks

Let’s not get carried away. Office suite (particularly Word, PowerPoint and Excel) is some of the best software I’ve used. Crazy powerful, easy to use, consistent across iterations. Outlook could have some QOL things but it’s still better than Thunderbird. VS Code is awesome too.

LibreOffice is good enough. Thunderbird is good. There is no shortage of development tools on Linux, if anything, it is the best development platform.

I switched 100% for 2012 when I changed job from game development to Linux development . I’d been 100% Linux at home since 2005, but changing work platform was the acid test.

Microsoft can get stuffed. I’ve not needed them for over a decade.

Good enough for who?

I’ve seen too many cases of word docs being hosed, or not working right in Libre. So from a business standpoint that’s a no-go. And that’s the challenge.

So don’t work in Word docs. It’s not a proper standard anyway.

It’s an industry standard.

Go see what lawyers use. Until fairly recently Word Perfect was still a thing for them (well, about 10 years ago anyway).

You don’t get to choose the formats other people use, or what you’ll have to deal with.

Your attitude is the stereotypical never-had-to-face-reality mindset.

It’s a monoply, not a standard. It’s not a standard as no one else can properly implement it. There are undocumented binary parts that were meant to be transitory to get through ISO. Which was just one of many dirty MS tricks to get it through ISO. The reference implementation is closed.

I don’t expect normal people to understand formats. I expect law makers to.

The UK government got this right : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-principles/open-standards-principles

The EU have clobbered MS before over this kind of nonsense and should again. And Google and Apple and others.

Competition needs to be possible. We need to avoid today being tomorrow’s digital darkage.

The very reason why that cross compatibility is so hard and broken is Microsoft sabotaging the fuck out of it. Microsoft has always been about money, dead stop. If theyust make great software for money, they will. If they can get away with mediocre to absolute shit software while sabotaging the competition, then that is what they will do (and have been doing for decades)

Yeah, I’m not saying Libre office isn’t…fine, or that development tools on Linux aren’t good or even better. But the idea that all Microsoft software sucks is as demonstrably false as an opinion statement can be. They’re really good, and with Office the alternatives aren’t close. Do most people need all the functionality in Excel or PowerPoint? No, but they’re great pieces of software and ignoring that is just plain tribalism.

Ok. Can you point me in the right direction?

I am building a gaming pc this weekend. I got to the bios screen tonight. I was going to install windows tomorrow. But I’ll give Linux a try.

Mint Cinnamon?

I know Proton works for Steam games. Can you twitch stream with Linux?

If yoı don’t have much Linux experience, probably Ubuntu or Nobara. You don’t need to use the terminal just as much in these distros.

Look up Garuda, Nobara and Pop!OS

They are tailored specifically for gaming. I love my garuda with KDE

I just feel like such a noob when using linux. Most of the time when im putting commands in the terminal I have no idea what im really doing. Also still not too familiar with how to navigate the file structure.

Though console is way more effective and efficient, it’s not required. Install KDE and you have a beautiful near windows experience that actually works

All their software sucks

Show me a real competitor to OneNote on Linux.

Once I find that, I can switch.

Show me a real competitor to “insert app here”

I don’t know your app, I don’t know all apps. A quick simple search got me this: https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-onenote/?license=opensource

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