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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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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    CAD/CAM, PLC IDEs

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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.

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