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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by plagiarist on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:14PM (#46481055)
AFAICT the only thing that should be keeping people from Linux nowadays is gaming (especially VR) and systemd doing dumb shit device naming so that changing the physical location of an unrelated GPU renames your NIC and breaks your internet.
Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by flipthefrog on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:49PM (#46481378)
Would have switched years ago if it wasn't for Adobe. Open source equivalents to Photoshop and Lightroom are NOT viable alternatives
Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by bentcorner on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:28PM (#46481787)
For casual use I use lightroom web and it's good enough for me, if you haven't tried it, I highly recommend.

I'm sure for some workflows it isn't sufficient but for basic edits and raw development it works quite well.

Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by flipthefrog on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:02PM (#46484756)
Yeah, i use online LightRoom for checking images in the darkroom actually, but for serious use, the old desktop app is still king. There are alternatives, like the excellent Capture One, but none available on Linux. I could live without Photoshop, but not Lightroom or similar.
Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by aruggirello on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:17PM (#46483323)
Not really equivalent to Lightroom, and not remotely a replacement, but there's Corel AfterShot Pro [1] (source: about 15 years ago, I was one of the (1?) proud Linux users of Bibble 5, its predecessor)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_AfterShot_Pro

Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by graynk on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:31PM (#46481207)
ALVR has been working really well for me on my Quest 3.

there are a lot of other things stopping people from migrating besides gaming though. sure, there are alternatives for professional audio/photo/video editing/producing, but they all mean losing some functionality if you migrate.

Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by throwaway1389z on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:49PM (#46481382)
Don't use NIC name for networking. This is a none problem.
Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by malfist on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:00PM (#46481487)
It is clearly a problem for them. Just because you do something different doesn't invalidate their pain point
Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by Gander5739 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:27PM (#46482904)
A known problem?
Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by plagiarist on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:06AM (#46485426)
This is an ignorant response. It is 2026. The OS shouldn't be storing network configuration by nondeterministic device name when I ask the OS's default network management tool to join a wifi network.
Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by jasomill on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:45PM (#46481956)
I was under the impression that the systemd device naming schemes were created specifically to solve the problem you describe[1].

Are there cases where the old scheme worked well that none of the systemd schemes properly address?

Is the scheme Windows uses to bind configuration to physical network interfaces even documented?

[1] https://systemd.io/PREDICTABLE_INTERFACE_NAMES/