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Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] yellowbadbeast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have to ask, why buy a key for the VM at all? Windows functions perfectly fine without one, and you can always use MAS if you want to change your wallpaper or something.

[–] wagesj45@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Entropy reduction. I do a lot of development work and need Visual Studio to work. It's a complex beast already, and I don't need to deal with the headache of fighting some activation hack or running the risk that some DLL or feature is gimped and causes weird behavior in an inactivated state.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

FYI there's scripts that will fully activate windows, not via any local modifications to the OS, but via the official Microsoft activation servers.