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I moved to Linux. I really liked Linux mint, but had some issues. Dove deep into learning about Linux to get at least a slight understanding.
Absolutely LOVE cachyos with KDE plasma desktop environment. It even has an app page on load up to download everything I needed, steam, DVD burner, librewolf, etc etc.
I just love KDE. It makes every os better. Not sure what os is even doing for me to be honest since I'm a visual user.
KDE chefs kiss, they solved one my biggest frustrations I've ever had. In the world of being connected and all this cloud shit the 100 step process I needed to do to move a picture or document from my phone to my pc like fuck. With KDE wow just wow.So convenient so easy. The joy and relief It brought.
Not much different than their revoking of Win 11 licenses because the hardware changed...
They'll keep pulling this BS because people are 'locked in'.
I bought RAM in 2026 because of how much I want to finally get rid of Windows. Can't wait to get my build up and running.
you know I was about to buy licenses for some software from microslop. seeing as they clearly disregard their responsibilities upholding the agreements they make, I have no reason to believe they'll continue to do so for any of their licensed software.
makes it easy for me. I'll just pirate it.
thanks microslop!
You do whatever you want with the resources and constrains you have.
But in my humble opinion, the best move would have been to migrate to LibreOffice and make a donation matching the MS Office license, or migrate to Collabora office (it's based on LO), or another opensource alternative.
Again: that may not be possible for you personnally, and I'm not judging. This is only to remind everyone there are alternatives out there.
Word alternatives are easy, how about Excel?
I use LibreOffice calc and have little issues, all about your use case though. Worth a shot at least.
"By perpetual we meant you can perpetually have them, not that they'll perpetually work."
You know whats really weird? Office 2019 just went on sale a few weeks ago.
https://www.techspot.com/news/100909-get-microsoft-office-29-one-time-purchase.html
It's like Microsoft wanted to squeeze a few extra dollars out of customers. But id be pissed if I bought it and found out it was being locked down 3 weeks later...
Although to be clear only the Mac version is being discontinued. For now.
That was not a real sale.
It's a fake article pretending that there's a sale in order to make affiliate money selling grey market keys from msdn. Those keys activate, but they don't come with a valid license to use, those are supposed for testing only on that specific msdn account.
It works like this: the fake tech blog gets 40%, the rest goes to the keys seller, Microsoft gets 0%.
Fuck Microsoft, but at that point is more ethical to just use massgrave and activate it for free
Thanks for this, nuance in this day and age are always welcome :)
Mm ok good to know. I just thought the timing was interesting.
Honestly, as much as I want to shit on Microsoft, this is probably more a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. They're a massive disorganized mess of a company.
pfft AI is improving everything, how can you say this?
I wonder if that divison's copilot ran out of tokens. That's probably the issue.
I'm glad I've entirely moved away from Microsoft products. Worst of the worst.
Amen! Nothing but Google here.
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I am altering the license; pray I do not alter it any further. - Microsoft
We have No Killing Games, now wet me need No Killing Software…
Games have a cultural element to it.
Non-game software doesn't. It's much harder to convince politicians.
The argument for non-game software would be economical. But most big companies pay the subscriptions, since they want to have the latest version (if not for the features, at least for the security patches). So they're not affected. The most affected by this is consumers and small companies. Which don't have a lot of power.
The way to fix this is to support the competitors that don't do this kind of shit. For office in particular, there's even free alternatives.
Not really. People should be encouraged, after seeing how bad the software provider treats them, to switch to open source - or at least to software of less shitty companies. You can't do that with games - each game is a unique^1 piece of art and culture.
someone call Louis Rossman !
Can't be bothered to go any further than the headline, eh?
o lol
He made a vid on it.
You're commenting on a thread ostensibly discussing that video.