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    • znatgdOP
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      1321 days ago

      I dont know what to think anymore after i hear that 😐…

    • r00ty
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      1521 days ago

      These days only the major ones. Like the H1/H2 updates. I agree there’s zero excuse for it in the EFI boot world. But, Microsoft gotta Microsoft.

      Often you can just find the boot again in the bios and choose it. And that should be assured if you don’t put grub and windows in the same EFI partition.

      Microsoft has always had his arrogant idea that the PC they’re installed on belongs to them and will just delete anything else they find in the way.

      • znatgdOP
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        221 days ago

        Why use something fragile like Windows?

        • r00ty
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          321 days ago

          I have it as a dual boot option. But, it’s not been booted since November. So I am assured I’ll need to rerun grub when I do decide I need to boot it for something I cannot do in either Linux, or a Windows VM in linux (that’s really a small number of things).

          • znatgdOP
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            221 days ago

            I get you, even i have to keep Windows for music and stuff. But hopefully ill be able to ditch it if My VST vendor supports Linux.

              • znatgdOP
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                221 days ago

                I appreciate it brother, but Native Access 2 on Linux refuses to run. I might have to look for other vendors who support WINE. If you have suggestions, do give some :)

                • swab148
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                  221 days ago

                  The album I just released was made with mostly open-source tools, in particular LSP, Calf Studio Gear, and x42 were all made for Linux, and the two non-FOSS plugins (Graillon and Acon Digital Multiply) ran fine with yabridge.

              • r00ty
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                221 days ago

                I’m not using VST. There’s a few games I got on Microsoft store some years ago which there’s no way (yet) to make run in Linux (at least to my knowledge). But, I don’t feel that much need to play them. At least not enough to boot into windows, complete the huge updates likely waiting and then fix the grub install afterwards just to play a game.

            • r00ty
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              220 days ago

              Well, mainly you just need to keep the EFI entirely separate. That’s generally all you need. That’s what windows will decide to wipe and reinstall. I just didn’t do it this time. I think because of how disks were already partitioned.

    • znatgdOP
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      521 days ago

      What can we say, Windows is fragile, we have to handle it with care

  • @jef@lemm.ee
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    621 days ago

    I feel like people should contribute to market actually free/open source projects more. I think it’ll have a snowball effect, of more users, more donators/software contributers, and reach.

    • @Walop@sopuli.xyz
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      421 days ago

      While more donations and contributors are always welcome, the thing open source projects really need to break through are project leaders and UX designers to polish the software to make it more appealing.

      Blender has come a long way in recent years by concentrating on these. There are also excellent videos by Tantacrul about his work on Musescore and Audacity after he made a video about Musescore and they got in touch with him to fix the problems he brought up.

      • @SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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        220 days ago

        Well then ask why UI/UX people don’t tend to help out with open source projects. I assume those people are far less idealistic. Which is why I have little respect for them.

        • @Walop@sopuli.xyz
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          220 days ago

          In one of the Tantacrul’s videos he says that UI/UX people do try to help and share their expertise, but the programmers running the projects ignore them or are actively dismissive, so they give up.

          https://youtu.be/12TJ-zTgiH0 Around 16:20

      • znatgdOP
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        120 days ago

        This is sooo true! We often forget that there are professionals who need a specific UX so their workflow doesnt get hindered.

        Open source maintainers need to realise the value of UX, not just “freedom” too…

    • znatgdOP
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      221 days ago

      Youre absolutely right… but it also starts with US, and educate people about the importance of opensource…

    • znatgdOP
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      121 days ago

      Ah, the Kitchen Gun. Of course. I remember the good ol’ days of using that, much better than the dishwasher imo…