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Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet (www.neowin.net)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Support for product activation has moved online.

Linux is this way, guys.

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[–] Gmork@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To hell with Microslop.

People need to have some dignity. When an OS becomes an ant-privacy ad serving platform first and foremost, it's time to ditch it!

My newest computer came with Windows 11. I ran it for a few weeks and wiped it and installed Bazzite Linux. I have had virtually no issues and honestly it's been a fantastic experience.

I do have an older laptop running Win 10 for a handful of programs that I haven't figured out how to get to work under Linux yet, but it's just a matter of time.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What softwares? Sometimes there are good alternatives for them.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I have a desktop and 2 laptops running Linux and a microslop surface running win10. The surface has one job, run Pioneer Rekordbox so I can analyse tracks for my DJ decks. I can get Rekordbox running on bottles, but no usb pass-through means I can't format and populate the usb to stick in the decks. Tried in a VM and WinBoat, but it refuses to run on a VM.