Microsoft is fucking butthurt no one wants Windows 11 so they're stopping the sale of Windows 10 licenses this month

I know about duel booting but I wouldn't want to keep 2 operating systems. I wish I could choose what to keep on my drive like it would delete all my programs but keep my pictures.
lel, I tried to dualboot Linux Mint with Windows 10 when I built my PC, and Grub didn't work due to my Nvidia GPU.

so I nuked Linux Mint, went full Windows 10, and then bought a newer Nvidia GPU. My setup works really well for everything I need a computer for.
 
Fixed that for you. Plus, Inkscape is meant for svg type images, not to replace Photoshop. I don't know why it's so hard for some people to do basic Google searches nowadays. You want me not to call you retarded but, what non-retarded person doesn't look up basic questions they have on Google at least or just as them to someone that know this shit?
>didn't notice the sarcasm at all
 
IDK, I googled "working with HDR content" and it looks like I need to learn to code.

Yeah, No one is going to learn to code when I can just install Photoshop on Linux or Windows. I don't know, I've found a wealth of information on how to install Photoshop on Linux. Personal anecdotes don't really mean much when I can people that show their working setups and show their process as well. I really don't care about anyone's incompetence like that.
lel, I tried to dualboot Linux Mint with Windows 10 when I built my PC, and Grub didn't work due to my Nvidia GPU.

so I nuked Linux Mint, went full Windows 10, and then bought a newer Nvidia GPU. My setup works really well for everything I need a computer for.
Again, you could have actually goggled your problem. I found a similar problem right here.

>didn't notice the sarcasm at all
I noticed the sarcasm. I just don't like stupid questions made by people that can't look shit up or assume you have to use the hardest solution possible, which tend to overlap a lot.
 
Again, you could have actually goggled your problem. I found a similar problem right here.
I did Google it. That's how I discovered my brand of GPU triggered the problem with Grub and there was no solution. How else did you think I could find that out? Am I some kind of master of reverse engineering software that also somehow has no inkling to ever plug terms into a search engine?

By the way, that solution in that post you linked to? Here's how it ends:
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He updated his BIOS, and it worked. He's using a Toshiba laptop. I don't have a Toshiba motherboard. I already told you, it was an issue with my desktop's GPU brand. If I had searched and found that same page you just linked to, it would have been absolutely no help at all because it concerns a specific brand of laptop I don't own.
 
I noticed the sarcasm. I just don't like stupid questions made by people that can't look shit up or assume you have to use the hardest solution possible, which tend to overlap a lot.
Being a Linux user, I was able to get the pixman source to build (uses gnu-autotools version 1.2), and I was able to build cairo with my version of pixman (using cmake). I had some trouble because some of the m4 scripts in my distro use gnu-autotools version 1.01 syntax, and when I submitted a patch to the package maintainer he said I needed to send it to the alt/improvements mailing list plus notify the appropriate IRC channel. So I just plopped it in ~/custom/usr/local/ and updated my PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as well as built with the custom USE_ALT_M4 config option.

That caused me to realize that I needed to write some custom elisp to help manage it. I've got a good EMACS setup for this project (it mixes C-89, C-99 and c-11 in different libraries).

Now I'm getting a little hung up finding anything on google for "implementing porter duff compositing via vulkan in RGBA64".
 
I did Google it. That's how I discovered my brand of GPU triggered the problem with Grub and there was no solution. How else did you think I could find that out? Am I some kind of master of reverse engineering software that also somehow has no inkling to ever plug terms into a search engine?
So what was stopping you from asking a question om the Linix Mint forums?

Being a Linux user, I was able to get the pixman source to build (uses gnu-autotools version 1.2), and I was able to build cairo with my version of pixman (using cmake). I had some trouble because some of the m4 scripts in my distro use gnu-autotools version 1.01 syntax, and when I submitted a patch to the package maintainer he said I needed to send it to the alt/improvements mailing list plus notify the appropriate IRC channel. So I just plopped it in ~/custom/usr/local/ and updated my PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as well as built with the custom USE_ALT_M4 config option.

That caused me to realize that I needed to write some custom elisp to help manage it. I've got a good EMACS setup for this project (it mixes C-89, C-99 and c-11 in different libraries).

Now I'm getting a little hung up finding anything on google for "implementing porter duff compositing via vulkan in RGBA64".
Lmao. I know you're being retarded and sarcastic, but again, all these packages are in the fucking default repository. Installing all this shit is as easy as:
sudo apt install inkscape (or whatever package you want to use).

I don't know. Maybe you actually think 99% of people do this sort of shit, but they have thongs to do other than constsntly build packages that already exist in mainline repositories. It fucking amazes me how some people concieve of Linux as stuck in the early 1990s thirty years later. The majority of the Internet and scientific research uses Linux. Valve has a massive push to allow Linux users to play games. It's not that difficult to use and install programs on Linux anymore. We're dealing with Ubuntu, not Mandriva or Gentoo my nigga.
 
So what was stopping you from asking a question om the Linix Mint forums?
My question was answered - it's an unfixed bug in Grub, that was reported years ago, and has no solution. Kvetching about Nvidia's poor Linux support followed.

After that, I dropped a pretty penny on a new RTX GPU, because I knew I had no plans to try Linux again any time soon.
 
My question was answered - it's an unfixed bug in Grub, that was reported years ago, and has no solution. Kvetching about Nvidia's poor Linux support followed.

After that, I dropped a pretty penny on a new RTX GPU, because I knew I had no plans to try Linux again any time soon.
Yeah NVIDIA has notoriously poor support on Linux. It's been something they refuse to do anything about for years. I honestly don't blame you for not using it from then on out as well. Again, not my computer, not my problem.
 
This thread is a gem.
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Though my experience matches that of @Pissmaster where I got my stuff answered eventually, but the answer was either making at least 7 workarounds to get half the result, or that this was not (yet) possible. I feel like Linux is kind of like having to get the bus. It leaves from somewhere you're not and takes you somewhere you don't want to go.
 
I bet they're pulling the same shit with updates again soon. First you force your customers to migrate to an inferior, bargain-bin macfag version of Windows and then you'll fuck em in the ass with glownigger shit again. Go fuck yourself, Microsoft.

 
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It's good to see peers supporting peers.

I got a windows 11 laptop from a liquidation sale. I'm impressed with the ease of use - I'd forgotten how intuititive it is navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHING/WINDOWS/HIVE/AH74_837HGN/ and setting UP_ID23 to a QWORD of DEADBEEF so it stops re-installing a graphics driver that blue screens the computer when I try to watch my linus tech tips on youtube.
And Linux users say you can't do anything fun with Windows.
 
WINE and virtual machines exist and they ate more than capable of running whatever you need. If WINE doesn't support it then VirtualBox does. There are very simple solutions to a lot of these problems.
Are you saying running Windows on a VM within Linux is better than just running Windows because... It's running on top of Linux? Are you genuinely retarded? I'm not trolling this is a serious question.

If I really want to use Linux alongside Windows, why not install it on a flash drive/external HDD/different partition, and change OS on boot?
 
Are you saying running Windows on a VM within Linux is better than just running Windows because... It's running on top of Linux?
That's precisely what he's saying. The general tenor among Linux users throughout this thread has been that it's a privilege just to have Linux gracing your hardware, even if you couldn't do anything useful with it.

Linux is the operating system which is an end in itself.
 
Are you saying running Windows on a VM within Linux is better than just running Windows because... It's running on top of Linux? Are you genuinely retarded? I'm not trolling this is a serious question.

If I really want to use Linux alongside Windows, why not install it on a flash drive/external HDD/different partition, and change OS on boot?
Better yet, you can run Linux inside a VM in Windows 11 natively, now that WSL is a standard Windows component. This allows you to use all those cool Linux applications that aren't on Windows, like
 
Frankly I don't see it as an alternative, not just because google its the worse at privacy but because you're basically running web apps most of the time, and back when android x86 was a thing it ran like shit so I doubt those apps will run well on anything but ARM chromebooks, but then say goodbye to linux apps and steam games. All the "gaming" chromebooks are meh laptops and the gaming is in the cloud, which google doesnt even supports anymore since it killed stadia, lame...

So its mostly web apps, as for android apps that OS has way less power-user apps than iOS or ipads do, and I'm saying that as an android user, it is the weakest point of that platform.

Also a decent chromebook its almost the same price than an M2 macbook air and lets be honest apple chips wipe the floor with the competition now, I don't have the numbers but I wouldnt be surprised if macbooks have better price/performance than PC laptops now.
You guys really need to stop talking shit about operating systems you have clearly never even used before. There's a ton of objectively incorrect shit in here.

google its the worse at privacy
No disagreement with this bit.

basically running web apps most of the time
99% of the time I'm on it I'm using playing games that are install locally via Steam or using stuff I installed locally through the Linux environment such as Firefox. I switched the default media players and image viewers to locally installed Linux applications. True, it does come with Chrome and a bunch of Google web apps on it by default, but you don't have to use them.

and back when android x86 was a thing it ran like shit so I doubt those apps will run well on anything but ARM chromebooks
I haven't been playing Android games, but for the most part, the Android apps run fine. Been using a couple propitiatory apps I needed such as Zoom and there have been zero issues.


All the "gaming" chromebooks are meh laptops and the gaming is in the cloud, which google doesnt even supports anymore since it killed stadia, lame...
Though the feature is in beta and can only be installed right now by switching to the beta channel, Google has implemented full blown Steam support through a proton compatibility layer. This is not gaming in the cloud; your files are installed locally. and most of the games I have tried worked perfectly right out of the box. I have not tried something super recent like Elden Rings, but I have tried a few from 2019/2020 and they seem to work fine. This is not cloud based gaming.

Also a decent chromebook its almost the same price than an M2 macbook air and lets be honest apple chips wipe the floor with the competition now, I don't have the numbers but I wouldnt be surprised if macbooks have better price/performance than PC laptops now.
Lol, no they're not. A decent spec Chromebook is like $500 CDN. I've looked around and windows laptops with similar specs are similar in price. A Macbook Air starts at over twice that. No disagreement that a Macbook Air is more powerful, but I would also argue that it's retarded to buy an F-250 when an Ecosport will do.

Again, the argument was never you can do everything you can do in Windows on a Chromebook. If you need Photoshop, I am not going to tell you to go buy a Chromebook. The argument was it is becoming a viable alternative depending on your use case. For some reason that statement makes people who have not used the operating system want to quote me and tell me things I know are not true because I've actually tried out the operating system.
 
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