yianiris @ yianiris @kafeneio.social

linux no-systemd minimalism

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Not all MS licenses are the same, some you can reuse 1 time, you just have to call up cus.support if the key was registered in your name.

@grum999 @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

If it was done online alone 1st it would have been cracked globally, then the machine/hw needs to be identified uniquely. How can this be done if you change disk and reinstall?

The way they do this is a chip intel/amdx86-64 boards provide called MSDM and a unique key is embeded to it.
You plug a new disk, install, reboot is is already activated.

@grum999 @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM

So if you create a windows vm vb/qemu provide a virtual MSDM chip you can modify the value of?

@grum999 @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

I was reading what it would take to run a legal copy of w10/11 in a vm since the vm doesn't provide the chip to embed the license (post 5th gen intel and similar amd) and I almost threw up with MS disgusting policies of trying to sell more and more for every use.

If your mb gets fried you have to call up and authorize the transfer of license ...

You can't buy a $50 refurbished with sticker and get a free license for w11 :)

@grum999 @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

Some people have spare time to learn a thing or two, some people have spare cash to buy new hw when MS tells them to.

We are not all equal :)
We have a government that enforces and maintains inequality, otherwise equalization would come natural, and with some social organization.

@grum999 @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

Partial list of things you haven't tried or researched?
There is another list for realtek, you have to know the specific chip you need fw for.

bcm20702a1--fw BCM20702A1
bcm20702b0--fw BCM20702B0
bcm20703a1--fw BCM20703A1
bcm43142a0--fw BCM43142A0
bcm4335c0--fw BCM4335C0
bcm4350c5--fw BCM4350C5
bcm4356a2--fw BCM4356A2

@jadedwench @feoh

Linux kernels are YEARS ahead of anything MS or Mac can handle.

It just takes a little learning and patience to deal with a system that belongs in the future.

Linux users complain about the kernel being so advanced and big covering industrial hw and hw not yet released in the market.

@jadedwench @feoh

.. safest bet is get a 2nd clean ssd replace, install w11 then copy user data into new installation.

@ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

I would advise #linux over anything proprietary to begin with.

If you want to really go the w11 way it is not as restrictive as they make it sound, in fact in 90% of the cases it says it can't it can.

8GB of ram and GPT partitioning!

Many w10 were upgraded from w7-8-9 and retained the DOS/mbr and w10 would work with either part.table. Win-setup says it can't auto-upgrade but it can install if you delete the partitions and start with clean disk.

@ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

I hope you mean touchpad by touch, it has nothing to do with desktops, it relates xinput libinput synaptics sw common for X and wayland, window managers. If it works it does so before desktop layer is drawn, in some cases it can work on console as well with the right sw.

@fschaupp @iturnedintoanewt

s6/66 simplifies dependency of running/starting, automatically enables an s6-log for each service/daemon/bundle it is much faster and smaller than systemd (by a factor of 10 maybe), and once it is up and running it is virtually impossible to bring down without its own routine. Servers have run consistenly for a decade with s6, including skarnet.org

@atzanteol @BlanK0

It is not personal it is counter propaganda, linux = fedora = ubuntu = systemd = debian = mint ....

No real options there, just an alternative MSwin

There is also the propaganda that says Linux is Plasma or Gnome ...

There is much much more that doesn't get corporate promotion and people rarely ever hear about it.

@MiddledAgedGuy

A window manager is enough with any customizable drop menu, can open a file manager of choice, create a folder or file, no desktop is needed.

worker /.Desktop

or whatever filemanager one is using

@toothbrush @MrOzwaldMan

How much does it pay to promote IBM products with convoluted software as that is really linux?

Since I am financially strained I might consider, with a very heavy ethical objection counteracting my need for cash.

The lawyers it takes to call this crap Open and Free System must have become millionaires by now.

@MiddledAgedGuy @CanadianCabinet

If it is using systemd you are half way there

@FatherRedbeard @GuentherAmanita

I assume that Manj follows #Arch and doesn't improvise on sys dependencies. Definitely not poor.

Arch-archives by date, means you can build a system exactly as it was fully upgraded on a specific date, and the system works just like it used to.

Other systems that may carry 3 versions of the same library because different sw use different versions are the ones with the problem. Except for redundancy and space the system is not very coherent..

@Shamot @gianni

partial upgrades on distros without hard linked dependencies is a disaster caused by the user.

You should never have a system with less than 20% free space, but I mean system, not /home, not /var/cache/ of /var/cache/pacman,
Make partitions and mount things separately, especially /home

In a pinch you can live without man-pages remove /usr/share/{doc,man,html}/
and on /usr/share/locale/ keep just the ones you use

When you need a man page reinstall the pkg.

@Shamot @gianni

This link is dead
@betatester

Is abiword foss?
It is the most reasonable of editors/wp I have found, LO gives me a headache looking at 1000 menus/items.
The gtk2 version is stable as a rock, despite of some bad wrap it got last few years.

@fossphi @jackpot

There is nothing "worth" running in wine, but it is good to know it exists, just to spite those choosing binary blobs.

@mrMADAFAKA