OS Installation : memes

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

the only issue with linux tbh is the lack of professional apps someone told me before that you have to use the open source alterntives but i have a affinity photo free trial for 6 months and i need either windows and mac to use it i can run it on linux by compiling a fork of wine that fixes it but time wasting

However anticheat games arent big of a deal anymore and i learned after switching to linux running anything in the windows kernel is very sketchy but i kinda want roblox but they well explained why they blocked linux tbh

i enjoy linux tho its very nice but i wish the app support is improved and ik this is a memes lemmy community

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Use Sober for Roblox. It's closed source though but made by same dev of vinegar.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

i kinda dont wanna use the android version of roblox to game but if its my only option then prob and thats why i still dualboot windows 10(downgraded from windows 11 bcs its soo slow and garbage even on my midrange gaming pc + i have heard about it before

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

The Roblox mobile build isn't really just mobile, and afaict has no issues that Windows Roblox doesn't have.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

and also i kinda wanna use bloxstrap as well it has some qol features to roblox but i didnt say this cause it was not that important to say and also not a cons but sober is also waydroid with tweaks for roblox and stuff

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

No poblem. I only play Roblox to play my friend games. So, I didn't know about that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Why?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

this reason might sound weird but Mainly bcs some games think your playing on mobile i love how you can play pc only games and has good mouse and keyboard support tho

yeah i might have sounded akward

[-] [email protected] 26 points 20 hours ago

Can’t actually buy MacOS, you have to buy their hardware. For the time being connecting with an Apple Account is still fully optional.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

i dont think apple forces a account on you like microsoft does and they say they are "piracy respecting" like if you only want a editing machine then you dont need a apple account

Edit: Tbh the tracking pixels concern me but your personal data is not sold which is good and i remember in ios telemetry was opt out

[-] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

I got macOS running in a VM on my Linux desktop. But then I didn’t want to connect my main iCloud account because I have heard they may ban you if you they detect you are doing stuff like this.

Without an iCloud account I can’t really do the stuff I actually would want to use macOS for, like using Apple’s movie editing software, or making iPhone apps with XCode. The default mail app is nicer than any alternative for Linux I’m aware of, at least.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I never heard of anybody having their iCloud account blocked after using hackintosh and I have qhuite a few friends using it. I think as long as you have actual apple products connected to that account, they won’t block it as to not deter their customers.

The only case I read was on reddit, but they created a new account from scratch and the ban might not even have been related to the hackintosh but just because it was deemed suspicious.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

You sound like the kinda person who mixes coca cola and fanta together

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

That would be a very spezial drink

[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Hmm maybe I’ll look into it again. The concern had something to do with having to spoof a serial number. I own Final Cut and would love to have the beefy GPU and CPU in my desktop accelerate it, but also am very afraid of losing my main account with that and a lot more. Already my current workflow is to render on my old MacBook as uncompressed, then transfer it to my desktop and use FFMPEG to compress. Better results and much faster than trying to have my MacBook do any sort of video compression.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

I ran a hackintosh for about 7 years and they didn't care, I used an Apple account. Don't think I had an iCloud though, maybe it makes a difference that I set up that account originally some years prior to building the hackintosh on a real mac.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

I see four Linux logos and one of them looks suspiciously out of place

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, Arch isn't exactly an easy install for beginners.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

I was thinking about Ubuntu pushing for snaps, but you're probably right

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

@yogthos With Apple you'll probably have to buy a whole new computer from them

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Windows does this too where they just stop supporting older hardware. I find the worst part is that new versions of Windows/MacOS are largely just random bloat that nobody asked for.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

@yogthos It's honestly reprehensible.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

indeed

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

That's correct. Apple has near the same setting but it doesn't belong into this meme, which is more like m$ vs. Linux

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Apple is actually pretty nice with how MacOS gets installed. Macs themselves have a recovery thing if you want to reinstall. If I remember correctly it is hardcoded with a version that came out before the device was released, but can automatically detect and verify a newer installed version.

They get ya by tracking every last program you open, being hostile towards user choice, and charging you hundreds of dollars for $50 of storage.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Pop os implement rexocery partition too which u can use to reinstall all os

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This is slightly different but that's only because Apple has the monopolistic advantage of they made the device.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I love Arch, but it's disingenuous to say that the install process is as easy as Install? Done.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Idk archinstall is pretty straightforward if you choose an ide. No harder than installing windows if you haven't done either before.

Help documentation and available of "support" (friendly nerds) to chat to is better than windows too.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I betcha a Feddit silver that If I ran through archinstall I’d run into some zany error not covered in the documentation

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I think that would be a fair argument if the meme was claiming it was low/zero effort, but it's just about freedom so it flies

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yes installing Arch is as easy as counting to 10

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Microsoft activation scripts

[-] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Lol, $100 would be a deal now. It's $140-200 for Windows 11 depending on if you get Home or Pro.

I looked up how much it would cost to get a Windows Server license to run in a VM on my linux server, and that's a minimum of $500 (but possibly more depending on factors that are irrelevant as an individual). I decided I'd run unactivated Win10Home instead with some registry hacks to make things auto-start the way I want. If that stops work, I guess I'll just stop doing automated Windows CI.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

After you get decently experienced with Linux, you're tempted to move to a "difficult-to-setup" distro for fun and more flexibility. Nothing wrong with normie distros, but these advanced distros are really good - you can strip down "bloat", pick your own init system, your own login daemon as well as your own job scheduler.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The prompts to upgrade Office 365 every time my gaming PC updates really hurts after using a Linux machine all day

[-] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago

I think with memes, there's something of an implicit promise of at least some degree of comedy. I get the sentiment here about proprietary vs open source operating systems but there doesn't really seem to be even an attempt at being funny besides maybe the way the characters are drawn which, given that as memes, they are recycled art used to establish the format, they don't really elicit much of a laugh because there's not even an expression of humour through the original artwork.

This isn't really a commentary or a parallel or satire on that distinction between open source and proprietary OS installation, it's more accurately describable as a complaint. Simply placing this complaint underneath the yes chad and crying wojak's doesn't really feel like a step up from a text post that says "I don't like Windows or Mac OS because you have to pay for them and they make you sign up for and agree to things". No one asked for my opinion I know, but I think this is a critique worth making: if you sum up your attempted meme in a bland, emotionally neutral sentence and then compare that bare sentence to its proposed meme counterpart and you can barely see the difference then maybe it's not a meme that has to exist. The format is flexible, but you can still use traditional written words to express complex thoughts, not everything has to be meme-ified and if it's not even funny when it is, why should it be?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Funny is subjective

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