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pogmommy@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Lots of the most best tools for desktop Linux are free and open source, so you really don’t need to pirate desktop software. As far as multimedia goes, I generally find it much easier to sail the seas on Linux as opposed to Windows where everything felt hacky and difficult to isolate.

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3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Oh you said multimedia, thats definitely easier if not using something like stremio which is the same level of ease

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3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Lmao if you find an open source tool that competes with houdini, let me know. I found it extremely easy to pirate on windows, it takes a long time to find a crack on linux, if I do, it is usually out of date.

I have only pirated davinci resolve studio on linux and some blender addons, like 25% dont work, while I had a ton of pirated software on windows. (marvelousdesigner, embergen, houdini, davinci openfx addons like redgiant, borisfx syntheyes, touchdesigner, etc.) A lot of stuff that adds up to 1000s of dollars a month for hobby stuff that I use sporadically.

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- pogmommy@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Im not even gonna try to learn music creation again, just assuming ableton and flstudio would both be issues.
  
  I understand that more conventional software is proprietary and not released natively for Linux, but it seems unfortunate yo me to let proprietary software stop you from making art. Ive got friends who produce music exclusively on Linux machines using qtractor, which is free and open source, so there’s no need to crack it. I can’t speak for the rest of the tools you mentioned but maybe it would just be worth exploring some of the Foss options to see what you can do with them? I haven’t bothered cracking software since I made the move over to Linux because I just haven’t found any piece of my workflows that actually depends on non-foss software. Turns out tools developed by the communities that use them rather than corporate entities typically turn out to be pretty good.
  
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  - 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Everything you’re saying is more a reason to swap back to windows than stick with linux, you ltierally have less options with linux all of the linux options still work on windows
    
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    pogmommy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Call it fewer options, I call it curated options. Yeah, I don’t get to install every piece of software I could on windows (though that list is shrinking really fucking fast), but i also don’t want to. I don’t need to put energy into cracking adobe software so they can steal my licensing and farm my data to sell or train their AI on.
    
    I don’t want to use a drill that only works with screws that are officially approved for DeWalt drills, and I don’t want to hack a DeWalt drill to make it work with other screws. I want a drill that fits whatever screw I want. People aren’t switching to Linux because of the vast amount of software available for it, it’s because it’s the option that actually respects us as consumers.
    
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