Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened

muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  uses Linux to pirate Windows

  deletes the iso because it sucks

  just because I could!

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  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I need windows for my cad program so I just run it in a vm

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    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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      • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        U can’t run them through proton they need all sorts of unsupported windows api bs

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• alphabethunter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pirating windows and adobe is never wrong.

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• Laser@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pirating Windows is wrong, but the lesser evil compared to buying Windows. Ideally, you shouldn’t do either

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Windows 11 is freely available through official channels and only disables some personalization GUIs if you don’t activate. But you can still customize things without the GUI. There may be other gotchas to force you to pay up, but piracy isn’t even necessary.

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  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    By piracy I mean modifying some registry keys to trick the free version into thinking its activated

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m not sure Microsoft would agree, but I feel that’s fair game since the registry is readily available and accessible to any user. It seems clear that Microsoft now treats Windows as a marketing tool to get people to subscribe to their other services, anyway. The way they cram marketing and adverts into every process and corner of the OS, it’s a wonder they are still trying to charge at all.

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      • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        U can half the size of windows if u use some of the debloater tools. U can also replace the start menu with the win7 version and that’s legitimately better.

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