This became relevant specially after 2023

  • ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    I can only answer why I dropped Windows. I wasn’t going to pay a company to force AI spyware onto my system, ignore my commands with every update that negated them, or hold my data hostage if I didn’t jump through their endless hoops; all to claim my data as theirs with their end goal being to charge me more money for accessing what is supposed to be mine in the first place!

    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
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      20 hours ago

      This. The minute I figure out how to gracefully migrate my VMs off of Hyper-V I’m done with it. My kids’ machines would already be migrated if they weren’t Roblox enjoyers.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        12 hours ago

        There are tools for converting Hyper-V drives to vmdks that everything can read. Then just fire up new kvm instances and load the disk images.

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        20 hours ago

        For Roblox, there’s Sober. It works (IIRC) by putting the android version of Roblox in a container and passing the appropriate system calls to the Linux machine. It doesn’t need to worry about issues with Roblox’s Byfron anticheat since Byfron hasn’t been implemented there (yet).

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            19 hours ago

            It does look like Roblox is trying to kill the Linux workarounds, though.

            This has been the big issue. I’m confident I can tinker something into working, either with Sober as @[email protected] said or with enough fighting with Lutris/Proton/Wine for today But when the developers are actively working to prevent it. it’s a hard sell when we already have the Windows install and it’s already working, particularly for something they’ll (nominally) outgrow in a few more years.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      19 hours ago

      Pretty much this for me too, only I already switched in 2002. It really wasn’t that hard leaving windows behind, even back then