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Holy SHIT they made a version with the worst stuff removed AND they're going to maintain it longer? That is the version everybody should be using.
I'm slowly switching to linux but there are things I'm going to need Windows for for the foreseeable future, and I think I've found how I can make that happen. Thank you.
It's used for industrial applications like manufacturing and whatnot, stuff that really doesn't need to be updated regularly since the software is effectively legacy.
Hell, we've got tools from the 2000s still running Win2k.
Well I mainly want it to keep my VR headset running which nobody can get working in linux.
One of these days I'll replace it and make sure the new one can run on linux, and then I won't have much keeping me on windows anymore.
yes but they make it hard to access, and it has legal issues too so you maybe shouldn't use it in a business setting
I discovered recently that they make the regular ISOs hard to access too. It didn't want to let me download it from a linux machine.
But there's always a way to access this stuff.
What are the legal issues?
licensing. both if you don't plan to buy it, and if you do, because as I understand it's hard to obtain, and maybe hard to keep too
That site's ai protection won't let me through. But if the issue is needing a legitimate license them I'm sure that can be overcome in other ways.
it needs cookies and scripts. but it's just a reddit frontend, feel free to replace the domain with reddit.com or an other redlib instance
Ah okay, so what I'm reading there is that it may be piratable, but a lot of software vendors don't support it, so there's a decent risk that software would just randomly stop working, which is the same problem you get with windows 10 long term. Oh well.