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- Except you can simply debloat and disable everything with a single script. Linuxbros are the biggest misinformation spreaders around windows.
- Linux has been having issues for a few years now. They’ve been going an obfuscation route with GNOME3 and systemd. Red hat basically decided to contractually kick people out for doing the traditional CentOS thing ever since they decided to change what the official CentOS does.
  The worst thing is, Debian also started using systemd.
  
  systemd doesn't obfuscate shit. It's Free software and you know exactly what it's doing. Stop spreading misinformation.
  
  No, systemd and GNOME are not part of mainline, and also GNOME and systemd arent obfuscated
  
  me when i spread misinformation on the internet
  
  There are plenty of distributions without systemd --- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd
Piracy is cool, but I prefer to use community-driven software rather than ones driven by corporate profits. I prefer a model where many can contribute to it, fork it, and for which making integrations is much easier thanks to its openness.
- Do you donate for the efforts?
  
  Yes
- Hell yeah
Not that I condone piracy, but I thought photoshop switched to a SaaS model from CS6 or so that made it unlikely to be pirated?
- It's still possible and last time I used it, it was about as easy as can be.
  When I last did it, you just downloaded the regular program, installed it, then you ran a patcher and that was it. This was a couple years ago now, but Adobe already had their current business model.
  
  Yup. The only real difference is the pricing model, the program is pretty much the same.
  I rememeber they tried offering online libraries of stuff for download to justify the subscription for some products.
  
  Last time SWIM used a patcher, it came with a malware dropper. Is that still how this "free" works?
- Would you describe it further? I don't see how coming to a subscription-based model makes it not piracy. I feel like I miss something there.
  I died a little inside by remembering that I was there when their lifetime CS licenses were sold and that licensing servers went offline at least a dozen of years ago... On the other hand, it raises a question if breaking CS versions is a piracy if they are abandoned. There's no way to use them even if you are a paid customer wanting to install it on your new PC.
  
  Again, I don’t condone piracy.
  It used to be that you could install a legitimate Adobe and use then the only thing you would need is a key generator that would open the software. In essence, the entire software is located on your computer.
  I was under the possibly mistaken impression that they took away the ability to register offline, and put the license server online. In other words, you’d have to patch the code or fake the license server to do accomplish the method of years prior
- CC is very piratable.
only free as in beer
In other words not free.
- Gratis versus libre
Pirating Windows for what? It works as full version even if you let it be, watermark does nothing.
- https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts. Use this and get that horrid watermark off your screen!
- Yeah but u cant change personalization settings without hassle so why not run an activation script?
If you want actual libre alternatives - Manjaro GNOME Linux, Krita with the AI Image Generation plugin. I'm sure someone else can suggest one for the third one.
Krita has a better brush engine and the AI plugin is amazing. The live AI painting with layers is so cool. It's like magic
When monopolies exist. How everyone didn’t care for the last 25 years is even wilder. Adobe has been controlling the design communities forever *flips water bottle

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