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[–] BrownianMotion 43 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you must use Windows, download it legitimately from MS website. Use RUFUS to burn the ISO image to a USB. Remove the restrictions you hate.

Dual boot a Linux variant, and move over apps at your leisure, until you are no longer Win OS dependent.

[–] x00z 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just moved to Linux and started fresh.

The big mental change was instead of searching "sony vegas on linux please" I just started searching for "video editing software Linux", and take any possible limitations and live with them, as I know it's only temporary until Linux catches on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What exactly do you mean, Linux had been "catching on' since decades, you may need to wait for a while...

[–] x00z 2 points 4 months ago

I mean for the big software boys to actually start caring about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I preferred to do Windows as a VM personally. Dual boot cost me a year before my Linux switch BC it was easier to boot Windows when I needed it. With VM I could do mostly Linux with maybe just vm to open a word doc if I needed it.