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Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Damage@feddit.it 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Now if only big software developers understood this and released business software for Linux...

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depends on what you're looking for, for some fields there are fantastic options already.

The others... Well considering the trajectory I'm seeing now (as a multiple decade Linux user), I think a lot more will start building for it. Maybe one flavor to start, but I do think it will be much more common.

I'm seeing it with some of my clients already.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CAD/CAM, PLC IDEs

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me: Solidworks, TwinCAT (lol @ plc software built on top of windows....and it's one of the more open ones)

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah the TwinCAT situation is absurd, pretty much like with SCADAs, wtf why would you use Windows when you need a reliable OS? Luckily Beckhoff is working on a BSD based TwinCAT IIRC, and on the SCADA side Ignition works on Linux

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Much of the businesses in media already do. EG: Maya was released for Linux. Its predecessor ‘ALIAS power animator’ was a Unix based program and ran on SGI.

You’d be hard pressed to find a studio involved in fx or 3D or any function of post production not running on Linux.