Why are newfriends using Windows?
-Shits on your privacy
-Windows 7 is dying soon
-Updates takes approx 4 hrs and breaks your system
-Ads everywhere, have to pay extra for ad free experience
-Can't even change fonts
>Muh softwares
Are you saying you browse /g/ and don't know about virtualization
>>Muh hardware acceleration
Educate yourself: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#pcipassthrough
>Why do you have to use virtual machine, are you just being a hipster
This would be true but there is no way to justify Microsoft's policy on forced upgrades and adware in security patches.
>Why keep the machine busy with VMs
Why not, not like you are using a pre 2005 system. Also, you don't do video rendering on your laptop on a traffic, do you?
>There is no privacy
Anything is better than having your private folders accessed to
>Do you hide something?
As a foreigner why exactly should I let my files open to a US secret service?
Windows is prone to viruses and malware vulnerability. It's a pain in the ass to debug if anything goes wrong. Windows belongs to VMs
Prove me wrong.
>>55350045
Win7 ends in 2019
2019 will be the year I give up on Windows
and get a mac
Furthermore, PCI passthrough technology is maturing very quickly. Operating systems should not be restricted by it's software anymore.
I hope they are working with combining Seamless/Unity mode so that multimonitor requirement becomes irrelevant.
>>55350132
Mac versions of software are actually dumbed down. I know you are not going to believe me but I realised it when me my friend were working with Minitab. The functionality were not the same, windows version was definately more feature rich and some features needed him to upgrade his product
Can you share files between OS HDDs w/ a KVM/QEMU setup, yet?
>>55350206
Use virtualbox, and there are shared folders, drag and drop, shared clipboard, USB hotplugging and PCIE passthrough for me. It's a complete package
>>55350045
I used to have a Windows 7 VM with VGA-Passthrough on my Linux box. Windows 10 has become so disgusting that I decided I won't even put it on my Linux machine hosting several other Linux VMs, and build a separate cheap throwaway PC for it, isolated it on a different subnet and do a whitelist firewall. It only runs Vidya and 1 proprietary CAD software with dongle protection that I needed for werk.
>>55350361
Ah, glad to I see someone saw the light. Virtualization server is not a bad idea though
Modern anti-piracy DRM is designed to detect VM environments and prevent the game from working
Enjoy your Tuxracer
software that cant be VM'd and has no linux alternative
>shits on your privacy
Prove it
>Windows 7 is dying soon
Good. Get on 10.
>Updates takes approx 4 hours.
No it doesnt.
>have to pay extra
Pay extra for what?
>Cant even change fonts
...LIke I even give a fuck.
>Don't know about virtualization
I do
>Virtualbox
VMware runs circles around that shit fest
>Policy on forced upgrades
Yes, lets patch Windows 7 Home, Home Premium, Enterprise, Ultimate, all the flavors of Vista, all the flavors of Windows 8 AND 8.1. Much easier to deliver patches to just Windows 10 Home, Pro, Enterprise and the Windows Server Platform.
>No privacy.
Define privacy. This goes back to the first point. Prove it.
>>55350735
>Modern anti-piracy DRM is designed to punish poor people
ftfy
>>55351375
>I work for Microsoft and I know what's best for you.
>>55351286
Did you even read OP?
>>55351375
No amount of damage control is going to change the common knowledge of Windows 10 being spyware. This thread gas a different topic
>>55351375
>prove it
http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/
>>55351888
this
>>55354172
so what
They moved virtualbox from main to contrib, because of a nonfree compiler. Any good alternatives on linux? Or is software from contrib actually safe?
>>55350735
denuvo protected games work just fine in qemu kvm
>>55354588
Go back to primary school and learn how to read
>>55350045
Vista is comfy senpai and I have a Windows 7 laptop that is supported till 2020.
>>55350045
>-Shits on your privacy
meh
>-Windows 7 is dying soon
so?
>-Updates takes approx 4 hrs and breaks your system
haven't downloaded a single update after initial install, besides both things are false you fucking lying nigger
>-Ads everywhere, have to pay extra for ad free experience
Haven't seen a single ad thanks to debloat script
>-Can't even change fonts
meh
>Windows is prone to viruses and malware vulnerability. It's a pain in the ass to debug if anything goes wrong. Windows belongs to VMs
I don't remember the last time I got a virus or malware
nigger
why do freetards care so much what software other people use?
>>55355468
why do religious fanatics care so much what religion other people belong to?
>>55355468
Tech board, winucuckold
>>55355497
that doesn't answer my question at all
>>55350045
>Windows 7 is dying soon
>soon
>4 years left
OH GOD
>>55355502
It's a place where you're supposed to care
>>55355514
you should never care about how other people live their lives, it's none of your business.
>>55355525
If you're indifferent, why are you here?
>>55355554
>implying this board is only here to convert windows users to free software
are you retarded or something? i came to this thread to ask a simple question, which has yet to be answered.
>>55355569
It's been answered a long time ago
>>55355613
no, it has not.
Current Hardware doesn't support it (Built in 2011)
No need to upgrade for a while, completely going Type-1 next build even if I have to abandon "the best parts for the time" to do so.
It's not just principle, but also convenience and containment.
You can just "run" windows and launch your software/game then close it and "launch" the Linux desktop you want with all your other shit.
>Linux = privacy
You cannot hide your browsing habits from your ISP.
What's that? You VPN into TOR from behind 18 proxies? You're on a government watchlist.
Just face up to the fact that Linux is a broken, hobbyist's OS and it's perceived benefits are only of interest to a tiny percentage of the population. Stop pleading fellow anons to adopt it.
