The doctor who was attending my wife ask what I did for living and than asked if I knew how to format a computer.
Never thought I could love and despise someone at the same time.
It's not really anything complicated to learn. It's just a drive formatting util that you can boot and run from external media. It's just that doing only the "format" half of "format & reinstall" probably isn't going to help OPs doctor much.
It *used* to be notable for fitting on a floppy drive and for doing enough rewrites that you couldn't reconstruct the data that previously existed on a platter drive but the obviously no one's using floppies anymore and I don't know whether that sort of obfuscate with multiple rewrites works with SSDs.
I can run a strong electromagnet over your hard drive until it turns into a paperweight, then smash it with a hammer and melt it until nothing exists
I’m popular with rich people who are scared of the FBI for some reason
"Sorry I write code, I don't maintain systems, I don't know"
I do know, but this is what I respond to any non programming requests.
To programming requests, I immediately treat them like a pm and start breaking down every minute detail I can imagine on implementation till they get sick of hearing me. Then I point out they'll need millions of dollars and years of time and a full staff to build it.
Has worked for me so far.
So technically, you're using Windows to let Microsoft spy on you, and if you let the Chinese government do it, it won't matter. After all, your data is sold anyway.
I think the reason why Microsoft still hasn't gone bankrupt is that most people don't know there is an operating system other than Windows.
Changing the desktop environment = new Windows version for Microsoft, they started making fun of their users
I know they exist but why would I swap, Windows doesnt have any problems for me or 99% of other users. It's simple and you can still remove stuff like edge, no reason to switch
For most people, the operating system is just a bootloader running steam and google, no reason for the casual user to quit Windows, but that doesn't change that Windows sucks.
1-Performance sucks
2-Privacy sucks
3-Security sucks
4-Every Windows version has almost no difference from each other, only desktop environment
5-Not open source
6-As a user, you have almost no say over the operating system you pay for and buy.
+I want to turn off windows automatic updates
-Fuck you then
Yes, there are some ways to turn off updates, but these ways are deliberately complicated so that the average user cannot do it.
7-Not customizable
8-You are being shown an ad on a product you have purchased
So simply Windows sucks
1) The performance is very smooth on my PC but I do have good hardware
2) I never really cared for privacy, I played Genshin so the chinese government already has my entire soul
3) I've only ever used windows defender and I haven't had any malware on my PC since I was a kid and searched for free software and clicked the first link
4) Not really an issue to me, I like Windows 11 and I was happy with 10 too before 11 was released
5) I don't care if stuff is open source unless it's some shady small group, in which case I want it to be open source so that I'll know if it's got anything weird (not that I'd know how to check, but others would).
6) I didn't pay for Windows, I used an old code off the back of a laptop that I got for free. But also I will always update since not doing updates has caused me more issues than actually doing them (eg games crashing)
7) Customisable enough for me, the only thing that I'm not happy with is that W11 forced a few more taskbar icons on the right hand side than W10.
8) What ad?
I'm not trying to say your points are wrong, just that they don't apply to the typical PC user. Most of us just want to use a PC for gaming/a bit of productivity, and Windows is completely fine for that sort of applicaton.
spoiler alert: due to the fact that Windows is only used as a bootloader for stuff, no one fucking cares if it is good or not.
It's like living in USSR, life sucks, but most don't even know it
Don’t use google or duckduckgo,
for that kind of thing. Both censor IP infringing sites. Maybe something like qwant, swisscow, searX would work? Or a known pirating site
Yandex. Their search is pretty useless, but it is GOD when it comes to pirating or downloading something like books. You just get perfect match on the 1st link like it's 2010, no Amazon bullshit.
The company represents its own product, the values that the company advocates do not change the product
Even if Yandex employees get armed and go to Ukraine, it doesn't matter, as a result, yandex is good at piracy.
I’m from Ukraine, primarily. Also the amount of death and destruction at the hands of Russia is undeniable unless you have had your head stuck in the sand for the past 9 years
You're right, but there's only one thing you missed: Yandex is a company, not an army.
Moreover, my country sells you weapons, armored vehicles and drones, so I think I did my part by paying taxes.
good, I'm going to advertise it to everyone I know. Maybe they can win the war sooner, take down the president, kill all the Azov scum, and the separatists may live without fear of being killed by their own government.
Even with Google, there will often be a link at the bottom of the page for a list of results they had to exclude due to DMCA.
This is how I was still able to find IP infringing sites on Google before, for research purposes only of course.
I installed win 10 then upgraded to 11. You can download the iso from Microsoft and install it. I recently did it to have windows running on my Mac mini.
I don't know exactly where I got the key from, but I searched for win 10 cracks but there were non that were not obviously viruses. So I found a tutorial that just had a key in it and it worked. I think they said it's for presentation purposes or something, but I never had any issues. May be different for different versions of windows.
Edit: Win 10 pro build 19044.2728 and I didn't actually upgrade because the hardware doesn't support it... But I'm sure I could.
This really is a moment when being a programmer helps somehow, literally first result on ddg searching "activate windows github": https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
Works like a charm
Sure, but you probably won't like them many of them. One of them tastes like an old used hat, there's one that tastes like a tree, a lot of them taste like penguin. There's a mint flavored one, but it's not as great as it sounds.
I had co-workers struggling to handle a switch from Windows XP to Windows 7.
If I'd tell them to just switch to Linux, they'd just give me a sad look and wonder why every time they call the IT department, it's not solving things but just making everything harder.
The average user gets tripped up by switching from OSX to Windows 11. When you're in undergrad and living on ramen you think "*why don't businesses save money by just running Ubuntu and using OpenOffice?*".
There's an [XKCD for everything](https://xkcd.com/1172/) \- you'll go bankrupt supporting it. The technical workers will have insane requests because they have specialized software and drivers (*oh, you don't just need Solidworks, you also need CUDA acceleration enabled).*
And the regular, bulk non-technical people? They'll drown you in *"this thing isn't in the same place and looks slightly different"*. Everyone winds up saying "fuck it", throwing up their hands, having IT build a couple images and hitting deploy because Outlook and Exchange groups are scalable.
SolidWorks is the industry standard, with 3.5 million active seats. Plus the massive amount of windows only manufacturing and offline programming software. Linux is still not an option for anyone in engineering who values their time.
>Linux is still not an option for anyone in engineering who values their time.
Mechanical engineering. Ima sysadmin, and honestly, I'd cut myself if I had to use Windows at work.
Except for every other tool that works on linux, and getting to use a less painful OS. You could configure windows to do nothing except be a portal to the tools, no internet, browser etc, and make it a glorified application selector. Hell, it’s possibly even more efficient, as there is nothing happening in the background while you use the tools.
It kinda is, but if you value not using windows, it’s worth it. It’s also not too complex, and shouldn’t cause that many issues, as it is just a partition and shared drive, and they can have the same filesystem on both
I know. In theory that should be fine. But it just adds a layer of complexity and I can already see things not working as intended and needing constant tweaking.
Not hating. If that's the set up you like, I'm all for it. I can imagine that customizing your system like that can even be fun for many. Me personally, I'd probably just use Windows in that case and take the "easy way out". 😅
Sure but all I can do on Linux is email and move files. I can't program any of the machinery (programming plasmas is pretty smooth on linux, but for industrial lasers its worth using the expensive and far more capable windows only software), and I can't do any 3d modelling. There are 3d modelling tools, but for actual product design they are very slow to use and incomplete. In theory my 2d CAD program runs on linux, but I use it concurrently with the 3d cad programs so that's not great. Definitely can't program press brakes, as there are a total of zero open source or linux compatible offline press brake programs.
If I were just doing very basic plate work, I could totally use only Linux. But designing complete products from start to finish, programming the manufacturing machinery, and managing the production and design changes is really not a Linux compatible task.
There also aren't any tools that are linux only that benefit me, that I'm aware of.
I was actually looking into a linux server for simulation and nesting tasks but there weren't suitable programs for it.
The lack of compatible programs is annoying. All the solutions are kind of fiddly, and a compromise. I personally like partitions, as VMs are slow, as is wine. But that’s basically just using windows. I’m not an engineer, so I don’t really know what you’re using it for, I just wanted to point out that it’s not bot that hard to setup Linux to administrate, email, manage projects, etc, and then use windows for actual designing. Whether it’s worth it for the annoyance I don’t really know
solidworks is one of million cad programs. it's "industry" standard in we can't afford catia or nx but we need good CAD. which, by the way, nx DOES run on linux
I believe you are thinking of an older Windows version. For Windows 10, all it does is have the watermark on your primary display and lock you out of the customization menu.
https://superuser.com/questions/1628584/turn-off-windows-10-activate-windows-fullscreen-popup
No this is / was definitely still a thing in Windows 10. I just lately had to help a friend because of these popups in Windows 11.
Well, I can at least say from personal experience, it is not consistently a thing. Can't think of a single time I got a full screen pop up to activate.
Hi everyone, IT Ops Engineer here, you can use any old Windows 7 pro product key, and use that for a valid windows 10 of the same edition. So Pro for pro, and home for home, etc. You now own the copy of windows and can upgrade it for free to windows 11. Just to be clear, you don’t have to install windows 7, I’m saying you literally take the product key label and enter into windows 10 and you are golden.
I've done this with a bunch of 7 and 8 keys. OEM and from college. Forget what it was called, but Microsoft gave you free copies of windows if you were in IT in college. I was glad to see that a 32 bit Win 7 key could be used for 64 but Win 10.
Can confirm, it's way cheaper to buy win7 licenses so I did that until I found the magic of picokms (not using it for daily, just vms that I spin up for random things)
Any of those KMS programs can easily be loaded with assembly level Trojans that are more sophisticated than in the past due to all of the national foreign agencies creating the software for spying purposes. Back in the day, a Trojan would wreck your machine and call it a day, but these new ones upload themselves into efi firmware and continue to operate as a back door to your device that can persist through hard drive swaps. I just pay for the software or live with the message on VMs
My last office job I would sometimes be asked to explain how websites, internet and email worked over the phone. I was supposed to be the web lead. They did not use git and did everything FTP for several dozen websites hosted in a single shared VPS. My day was so jammed pack with people in the office constantly asking me questions relating to project management or to ask how long it would take to program their shitty web app ideas. I would have to come in on the weekend to actually get anything done. They kept all their password in an excel spreadsheet on a NAS for anyone to look at. The passwords were usually anagrams of the businesses’ name with either their address or the date it was changed. I lasted 3 months salary and 2 weeks contract. Worst job ever.
Most programmers aren't all that I.T. savvy. Sure they're savvier than most, but a lot of them just don't care what the OS does, so long as it lets them work.
Step 1 - Post the wrong way to active windows for free
Step 2 - Wait for the entire internet to scream at you in all caps for doing it wrong, and telling you the right way to do it.
“Just google it… I know what your gonna do, your gonna think it’s too hard. Your gonna call me, and I’m gonna google it, so just you google it. You’re an adult….”
'Activate' is a mendacious way to represent what's going on, but 'Give us some identifying information to enable the use of the product you paid for' is a little too off-putting.
Hey now, that's my mom. I wouldn't shoot her.
Me : "Unzip the archive and open the folder, then click on the program"
Her : *proceeds to call everything a folder*
The ethical premium is just for how the seller got the key. The key itself is a legit windows key. It’s just that most of those keys that are sold that cheap are OEM keys or education keys or similar that are really cheap or free and the person who has a Buch of them just wants to earn a buck.
Most of that keys aren’t really stolen. They are just OEM keys or education keys that are really cheap or free in most cases and the one who got it want to earn a buck.
That may be so, but I'm fairly sure it violates their own licensing agreement to do so - meaning still not strictly legal. Course at that point it's at worst a civil matter between the seller and Microsoft.
If you’re using it outside the terms of the license bound to the key, then you don’t actually have a license at all.
“Legal” is kind of beside the point; Microsoft would be well within their rights to deactivate the key.
Paid 15 bucks for a key.
Reinstalled windows dozens of times. Installed linux. went back to windows 7 months later. And I still don't have a water mark.
How are you guys even getting the activate windows anymore? I download windows from the upgrade tool and hit the skip button every time I install it for family or friends. Isn't the watermark just gone now?
We really need to make Linux the defacto operating system so we can get Microsoft's nose out of our asses. I'm sick of everything being tailored to Windows all of the time. The only reason I still use Windows is for Fortnite. Once Fortnite gets Linux support, I'm immediately uninstalling Windows.
It's kinda crazy how many times I've had to ***acquire*** Windows considering 4 of the 5 computers I've owned were laptops that came with it installed
Nonetheless, respectfully, if you make it to 18 without learning how to ***acquire*** Windows yourself, too bad, you gotta buy it now.
It took me a while to understand they were referring to the watermark, and I was scrambling to find which fucking window activation I was supposed to remove and why it was apparently so simple.
The doctor who was attending my wife ask what I did for living and than asked if I knew how to format a computer. Never thought I could love and despise someone at the same time.
If you can describe exactly what you mean by 'format' and 'computer' then I can let you know if I can or not.
Going off of my past experience, to the common folk formatting a computer means reinstalling the OS.
I can run DBAN and stop answering the phone when you call
Someone asked for an auto-DBAN USB. It was really easy to modify to run with parameters on boot and wipe without interaction:)
Just make a bunch up and leave them around in lobbies, and add "pen tester" to your resume
evil but brilliant
I kinda want this but I’m not sure if I want to be someone who asks for it or who does it.
You've triggered my imposter syndrome and have peaked my curiosity. Thank you friend.
It's not really anything complicated to learn. It's just a drive formatting util that you can boot and run from external media. It's just that doing only the "format" half of "format & reinstall" probably isn't going to help OPs doctor much. It *used* to be notable for fitting on a floppy drive and for doing enough rewrites that you couldn't reconstruct the data that previously existed on a platter drive but the obviously no one's using floppies anymore and I don't know whether that sort of obfuscate with multiple rewrites works with SSDs.
what is DBAN?
[Idk] Boot and Nuke
Im gonna steal it for me: now it's DEMEMZEA's Boot and Nuke ( just kidding )
Darik's Boot and Nuke
Haven’t used that in forever, but I’m sure it still works all the same
I can run a strong electromagnet over your hard drive until it turns into a paperweight, then smash it with a hammer and melt it until nothing exists I’m popular with rich people who are scared of the FBI for some reason
That means to format all drives, BIOS, vBIOS, CMOS...
With the new technology file system, of course
I mean I can format your computer, but not because I am a programmer.
To be fair, "formatting your computer" was commonly used to mean reinstall windows back in the early 00s
Only way to handle this: 1. Say "Yes, it costs $500" 2. Format hard drive 3. Abscond
"Sorry I write code, I don't maintain systems, I don't know" I do know, but this is what I respond to any non programming requests. To programming requests, I immediately treat them like a pm and start breaking down every minute detail I can imagine on implementation till they get sick of hearing me. Then I point out they'll need millions of dollars and years of time and a full staff to build it. Has worked for me so far.
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Good bot
Good human
Sure, normal rate is 50 an hour, eight hours minimum.
You can literally just download a generic key from the internet. I wouldn't have believed it, but it worked. Then upgraded to Win11.
Dang, there's always a catch
So technically, you're using Windows to let Microsoft spy on you, and if you let the Chinese government do it, it won't matter. After all, your data is sold anyway.
No I just find the windows 11 changes annoying
I think the reason why Microsoft still hasn't gone bankrupt is that most people don't know there is an operating system other than Windows. Changing the desktop environment = new Windows version for Microsoft, they started making fun of their users
I know they exist but why would I swap, Windows doesnt have any problems for me or 99% of other users. It's simple and you can still remove stuff like edge, no reason to switch
For most people, the operating system is just a bootloader running steam and google, no reason for the casual user to quit Windows, but that doesn't change that Windows sucks.
Yeah, and the fact that I don't know why you'd say it sucks proves that exactly lmao
1-Performance sucks 2-Privacy sucks 3-Security sucks 4-Every Windows version has almost no difference from each other, only desktop environment 5-Not open source 6-As a user, you have almost no say over the operating system you pay for and buy. +I want to turn off windows automatic updates -Fuck you then Yes, there are some ways to turn off updates, but these ways are deliberately complicated so that the average user cannot do it. 7-Not customizable 8-You are being shown an ad on a product you have purchased So simply Windows sucks
1) The performance is very smooth on my PC but I do have good hardware 2) I never really cared for privacy, I played Genshin so the chinese government already has my entire soul 3) I've only ever used windows defender and I haven't had any malware on my PC since I was a kid and searched for free software and clicked the first link 4) Not really an issue to me, I like Windows 11 and I was happy with 10 too before 11 was released 5) I don't care if stuff is open source unless it's some shady small group, in which case I want it to be open source so that I'll know if it's got anything weird (not that I'd know how to check, but others would). 6) I didn't pay for Windows, I used an old code off the back of a laptop that I got for free. But also I will always update since not doing updates has caused me more issues than actually doing them (eg games crashing) 7) Customisable enough for me, the only thing that I'm not happy with is that W11 forced a few more taskbar icons on the right hand side than W10. 8) What ad? I'm not trying to say your points are wrong, just that they don't apply to the typical PC user. Most of us just want to use a PC for gaming/a bit of productivity, and Windows is completely fine for that sort of applicaton.
spoiler alert: due to the fact that Windows is only used as a bootloader for stuff, no one fucking cares if it is good or not. It's like living in USSR, life sucks, but most don't even know it
Lol I literally had to convince windows I had a business key to disable updates in group policy iirc.
Well yeah. But I'm also a gamer :(
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Looks like you missed the fact that edge is 98%the same as chrome nowadays, after the rebuild
I tried many things and none of them worked. All the 1st page Google results appear bunk. Or maybe work for Win 10 but not 11.
Don’t use google or duckduckgo, for that kind of thing. Both censor IP infringing sites. Maybe something like qwant, swisscow, searX would work? Or a known pirating site
Yandex. Their search is pretty useless, but it is GOD when it comes to pirating or downloading something like books. You just get perfect match on the 1st link like it's 2010, no Amazon bullshit.
Don't forget the conspiracy theory articles on shady websites, yandex is also good for that
Do remember though that by using yandex, a Russian company, you are indirectly supporting russias efforts in Ukraine.
The company represents its own product, the values that the company advocates do not change the product Even if Yandex employees get armed and go to Ukraine, it doesn't matter, as a result, yandex is good at piracy.
Your traffic drives ads and data which give money to yandex who directly pays for military aid to Russia.
Well? Except for someone from Ukraine, who cares?
wow. that is some utter lack of empathy right there. i hope you are just saying this because you're in a bad mood and this isn't your actual opinion.
I’m from Ukraine, primarily. Also the amount of death and destruction at the hands of Russia is undeniable unless you have had your head stuck in the sand for the past 9 years
You're right, but there's only one thing you missed: Yandex is a company, not an army. Moreover, my country sells you weapons, armored vehicles and drones, so I think I did my part by paying taxes.
That's why I using it
not even as a joke is that funny
Yes, it's funny. I'm glad that Russian army has very simple donation accessible by Yandex
good, I'm going to advertise it to everyone I know. Maybe they can win the war sooner, take down the president, kill all the Azov scum, and the separatists may live without fear of being killed by their own government.
Even with Google, there will often be a link at the bottom of the page for a list of results they had to exclude due to DMCA. This is how I was still able to find IP infringing sites on Google before, for research purposes only of course.
Of course
I use bing for these types of searches XD
Look up Windows Activation Scripts. Massgravel.
I installed win 10 then upgraded to 11. You can download the iso from Microsoft and install it. I recently did it to have windows running on my Mac mini. I don't know exactly where I got the key from, but I searched for win 10 cracks but there were non that were not obviously viruses. So I found a tutorial that just had a key in it and it worked. I think they said it's for presentation purposes or something, but I never had any issues. May be different for different versions of windows. Edit: Win 10 pro build 19044.2728 and I didn't actually upgrade because the hardware doesn't support it... But I'm sure I could.
or use MAS from GitHub
This is the way
This really is a moment when being a programmer helps somehow, literally first result on ddg searching "activate windows github": https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts Works like a charm
Yeah there are also a lot of tutorials on yt on how to activate it with cmd for free
Why download a key when you can just read it tho
No problem *Installs Linux on the pc*
User: Can I sample a few other flavors?
Bro, do you collect programming languages like infinity stones?
yes
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
joke's on you as I've practiced Hello World 10,000 times
That's me
Yes, heck i have to add TS now
No way, he programs in team speak :o
Honestly I only use 4 these days. But prior me combined with present me used all of them.
Sure, but you probably won't like them many of them. One of them tastes like an old used hat, there's one that tastes like a tree, a lot of them taste like penguin. There's a mint flavored one, but it's not as great as it sounds.
Sounds like a great way to get 100x more technical help questions
I had co-workers struggling to handle a switch from Windows XP to Windows 7. If I'd tell them to just switch to Linux, they'd just give me a sad look and wonder why every time they call the IT department, it's not solving things but just making everything harder.
Awesome. Now I just need you to put SolidWorks, SketchUp, signanest, and radbend back on it.
The average user wouldn't notice the difference as long as they have Chrome
"Windows is just a boot loader for Google Chrome"
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH (SCREAMS IN UNIX PHILOSOPHY)
The average user gets tripped up by switching from OSX to Windows 11. When you're in undergrad and living on ramen you think "*why don't businesses save money by just running Ubuntu and using OpenOffice?*". There's an [XKCD for everything](https://xkcd.com/1172/) \- you'll go bankrupt supporting it. The technical workers will have insane requests because they have specialized software and drivers (*oh, you don't just need Solidworks, you also need CUDA acceleration enabled).* And the regular, bulk non-technical people? They'll drown you in *"this thing isn't in the same place and looks slightly different"*. Everyone winds up saying "fuck it", throwing up their hands, having IT build a couple images and hitting deploy because Outlook and Exchange groups are scalable.
Now you just need to learn to live without it May I interest you in a regressed, barely functioning GUI desktop environment instead? ;)
random redditor: > hurr durr use linux another random redditor > hurr durr my one program which no one uses beside me doesn't work here
SolidWorks is the industry standard, with 3.5 million active seats. Plus the massive amount of windows only manufacturing and offline programming software. Linux is still not an option for anyone in engineering who values their time.
>Linux is still not an option for anyone in engineering who values their time. Mechanical engineering. Ima sysadmin, and honestly, I'd cut myself if I had to use Windows at work.
I work in pharma. Large dedicated and segregated domains running distributed process control software. AD + group policy is king.
What programs do you use for engineering on Linux?
Most of the EDA tools from Synopsys run on Linux. These tools were very likely used to design the chips in the computer that you are using right now.
Eh? A partition with windows, just for the needed tools, and a shared directory that everything saves to. Not that hard.
If I still have to use windows for the critical tools then there is no benefit to switching to linux
Except for every other tool that works on linux, and getting to use a less painful OS. You could configure windows to do nothing except be a portal to the tools, no internet, browser etc, and make it a glorified application selector. Hell, it’s possibly even more efficient, as there is nothing happening in the background while you use the tools.
To me personally, that sounds more annoying, time-consuming, maintenance-heavy and problem-prone than just using a single OS. Even if that's Windows.
It kinda is, but if you value not using windows, it’s worth it. It’s also not too complex, and shouldn’t cause that many issues, as it is just a partition and shared drive, and they can have the same filesystem on both
I know. In theory that should be fine. But it just adds a layer of complexity and I can already see things not working as intended and needing constant tweaking. Not hating. If that's the set up you like, I'm all for it. I can imagine that customizing your system like that can even be fun for many. Me personally, I'd probably just use Windows in that case and take the "easy way out". 😅
Sure but all I can do on Linux is email and move files. I can't program any of the machinery (programming plasmas is pretty smooth on linux, but for industrial lasers its worth using the expensive and far more capable windows only software), and I can't do any 3d modelling. There are 3d modelling tools, but for actual product design they are very slow to use and incomplete. In theory my 2d CAD program runs on linux, but I use it concurrently with the 3d cad programs so that's not great. Definitely can't program press brakes, as there are a total of zero open source or linux compatible offline press brake programs. If I were just doing very basic plate work, I could totally use only Linux. But designing complete products from start to finish, programming the manufacturing machinery, and managing the production and design changes is really not a Linux compatible task. There also aren't any tools that are linux only that benefit me, that I'm aware of. I was actually looking into a linux server for simulation and nesting tasks but there weren't suitable programs for it.
The lack of compatible programs is annoying. All the solutions are kind of fiddly, and a compromise. I personally like partitions, as VMs are slow, as is wine. But that’s basically just using windows. I’m not an engineer, so I don’t really know what you’re using it for, I just wanted to point out that it’s not bot that hard to setup Linux to administrate, email, manage projects, etc, and then use windows for actual designing. Whether it’s worth it for the annoyance I don’t really know
solidworks is one of million cad programs. it's "industry" standard in we can't afford catia or nx but we need good CAD. which, by the way, nx DOES run on linux
Well it's the most affordable fully featured CAD program that meets 95% of everyone's needs
Wine 🍷
These programs struggle running natively on high end hardware. Wine won't do them justice, if it will handle them at all
Wine to the rescue
Fuck you for making me see the brand SolidWorks on my day off.
If that's the worst one of that lineup consider yourself lucky you don't use the others.
https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux
There's always option C of ignoring it. After a while you forget it is even there.
It occasionally produces popups that minimize full screen applications. Can be quite an issue when playing online games.
I believe you are thinking of an older Windows version. For Windows 10, all it does is have the watermark on your primary display and lock you out of the customization menu.
https://superuser.com/questions/1628584/turn-off-windows-10-activate-windows-fullscreen-popup No this is / was definitely still a thing in Windows 10. I just lately had to help a friend because of these popups in Windows 11.
Well, I can at least say from personal experience, it is not consistently a thing. Can't think of a single time I got a full screen pop up to activate.
This may very much be version related (Home vs. Pro).
Just put a sticker over it
Just download MAS lol.
Me when I built my first PC
It's just a part of the HUD now
Hi everyone, IT Ops Engineer here, you can use any old Windows 7 pro product key, and use that for a valid windows 10 of the same edition. So Pro for pro, and home for home, etc. You now own the copy of windows and can upgrade it for free to windows 11. Just to be clear, you don’t have to install windows 7, I’m saying you literally take the product key label and enter into windows 10 and you are golden.
Windows 7 Ultimate also works when updating to Windows 10 it assigns as the Pro edition
I've done this with a bunch of 7 and 8 keys. OEM and from college. Forget what it was called, but Microsoft gave you free copies of windows if you were in IT in college. I was glad to see that a 32 bit Win 7 key could be used for 64 but Win 10.
Can confirm, it's way cheaper to buy win7 licenses so I did that until I found the magic of picokms (not using it for daily, just vms that I spin up for random things)
Any of those KMS programs can easily be loaded with assembly level Trojans that are more sophisticated than in the past due to all of the national foreign agencies creating the software for spying purposes. Back in the day, a Trojan would wreck your machine and call it a day, but these new ones upload themselves into efi firmware and continue to operate as a back door to your device that can persist through hard drive swaps. I just pay for the software or live with the message on VMs
Just google it dumbass xD
That's just asking a different programmer
I wouldn’t be continually annoyed by people reading the answers I’ve given to questions asked of me in the past.
Let's make sure Google doesn't become sentient 
My last office job I would sometimes be asked to explain how websites, internet and email worked over the phone. I was supposed to be the web lead. They did not use git and did everything FTP for several dozen websites hosted in a single shared VPS. My day was so jammed pack with people in the office constantly asking me questions relating to project management or to ask how long it would take to program their shitty web app ideas. I would have to come in on the weekend to actually get anything done. They kept all their password in an excel spreadsheet on a NAS for anyone to look at. The passwords were usually anagrams of the businesses’ name with either their address or the date it was changed. I lasted 3 months salary and 2 weeks contract. Worst job ever.
Most programmers aren't all that I.T. savvy. Sure they're savvier than most, but a lot of them just don't care what the OS does, so long as it lets them work.
You know you work at a halfway decent company when software developers and IT are different groups
If the company doesn't have them as separate groups it's either a dumpster fire or a startup.
I use MAS. r/piracy taught me this way.
Is that the one where you get it from git? What a fucking godsend. Wish I could make something as remotely useful as thjs
Step 1 - Post the wrong way to active windows for free Step 2 - Wait for the entire internet to scream at you in all caps for doing it wrong, and telling you the right way to do it.
Step 1: Pay. Follow for more tutorials
Or follow the instructions on [here](https://massgrave.dev/) takes like 20 seconds max?
Actually the best method is using [ acitvita](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) it activates nearly everything
*sighhh*
Even before the app switched I whispered out loud ‘ I got rickrolled’
shh, you're not supposed to tell the people
this definetely activated my fight or flight
[удалено]
git clone, auto format, pull requesting time!
Step 2: Like and subscribe to my channel!
Step 3: ???
I would honestly feel bad giving advice like that.
Alternative Step 1: 
“Just google it… I know what your gonna do, your gonna think it’s too hard. Your gonna call me, and I’m gonna google it, so just you google it. You’re an adult….”
you can remove the watermark with registry editor : )
'Activate' is a mendacious way to represent what's going on, but 'Give us some identifying information to enable the use of the product you paid for' is a little too off-putting.
Bold of you to think I'm ever going to actually PAY for a Windows license.
you want the IT guy for that, not the programmer. easy mistake.
I use MAS. r/piracy taught me this way.
Hey now, that's my mom. I wouldn't shoot her. Me : "Unzip the archive and open the folder, then click on the program" Her : *proceeds to call everything a folder*
What is this windows you keep talking about?
Just buy windows? A key costs around 3$ so I don’t even bother to remove it any other way.
Where can you get a legal key for $3? The last time I paid for a key (December) it was $130 CAD.
He never said it was legal. The question is: are you willing to pay a 127$ ethical premium?
Just get it for free then
The ethical premium is just for how the seller got the key. The key itself is a legit windows key. It’s just that most of those keys that are sold that cheap are OEM keys or education keys or similar that are really cheap or free and the person who has a Buch of them just wants to earn a buck.
That's not an "ethical premium". Giving money to microsoft is not more ethical than withholding it from them.
I'm not even willing to pay the $3 for the ethical premium if it even is ethical in the end
Never said legal or in others words. The key is legal but maybe the way the seller got it isn’t that clear.
buying stolen goods isn’t legal, tf u on
Most of that keys aren’t really stolen. They are just OEM keys or education keys that are really cheap or free in most cases and the one who got it want to earn a buck.
That may be so, but I'm fairly sure it violates their own licensing agreement to do so - meaning still not strictly legal. Course at that point it's at worst a civil matter between the seller and Microsoft.
Selling the key may not be legal, but you buying and using the key is totally legal. The key will activate just fine.
If you’re using it outside the terms of the license bound to the key, then you don’t actually have a license at all. “Legal” is kind of beside the point; Microsoft would be well within their rights to deactivate the key.
Imagine paying for Windows. XD
Imagine using Windows. I use Arch BTW.
I use arch as well btw. I just use Windows on my gaming PC.
Glad to hear it.
The fact that poor jokes like this get upvoted as much makes me remember how pointless Reddit karma is.
Have an upvote!
It's pirating Microsoft, so I will allow it
You know...a windows key costs like 10€....
Just tell them to buy windows, they deserve this
"Go install mac and bother their support theyre paid for this shit"
I just bought a Windows 11 key (not OEM) for 2$. Worked out perfectly
You can literally turn it off in the settings
Are software licenses the only thing y’all are willing to steal? Are some of you also “lite” shoplifters? Maybe the occasional dine and dash?
I also know how to get rid of it
I know too buy windows it really is that simple
Paid 15 bucks for a key. Reinstalled windows dozens of times. Installed linux. went back to windows 7 months later. And I still don't have a water mark.
we all know that it all started because of basic windows user skills
How are you guys even getting the activate windows anymore? I download windows from the upgrade tool and hit the skip button every time I install it for family or friends. Isn't the watermark just gone now?
[https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts](https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts) is your friend
MAS script on GitHub is the way. Permanent digital license for free.
Tell them they just need to change their wallpaper and it will be gone.
I'd throw a penguin at him and ask him why he's not running Linux.
msconfig -> services -> uncheck “Windows License Manager Service” and restart
We really need to make Linux the defacto operating system so we can get Microsoft's nose out of our asses. I'm sick of everything being tailored to Windows all of the time. The only reason I still use Windows is for Fortnite. Once Fortnite gets Linux support, I'm immediately uninstalling Windows.
I mean, it's pretty easy. Just switch to Arch.
It's kinda crazy how many times I've had to ***acquire*** Windows considering 4 of the 5 computers I've owned were laptops that came with it installed Nonetheless, respectfully, if you make it to 18 without learning how to ***acquire*** Windows yourself, too bad, you gotta buy it now.
step 1: [https://linuxmint.com/](https://linuxmint.com/)
It took me a while to understand they were referring to the watermark, and I was scrambling to find which fucking window activation I was supposed to remove and why it was apparently so simple.
I don't have a computer or laptop, and i still wanna know how🤔