I recently moved back from windows to fedora again. (Boo windows, whatever, i was forced to use it for school, and they wouldn’t let me run it in a hypervisor. That’s not the point of the post.)

I don’t pirate software often, but sometimes it’s morally warranted. In this case, the software that i want to use (chessbase) costs upwards of $220 for a license in my country and it’s not even all that great, but FOSS alternatives like en croissant and pawn appetite aren’t too spectacular either. For instance, one issue with both of them is that engines refuse to calculate any set-up position where a king is castled, citing “invalid castling rights.” Unfortunately, because of these kinds of issues, chessbase is still somehow the leading industry standard for localized chess software. I’m not gonna die without a copy of chessbase, but the alternatives are not well maintained and id like to use it to store my PGNs and whatnot, but the price is egregious for what it is.

Now that that’s all out of the way, how has your experience been using windows keygen software and other tools for the seven seas on linux? I haven’t even bothered trying because last time i tried to use bottles for (legal) windows software i ran into issue after issue. All of my piracy has only been committed on windows because i just never really needed to pirate anything on linux and it seemed like a hassle anyway considering illegal software distributions are all made and shipped natively for windows, and linux has free alternatives for almost everything.

  • sappy the duck@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    thanks for the reply, but its rather unhelpful. im a FOSS contributor already and frankly this does not address my question at all. i know what i want and why, and nobody here seems to grasp that concept.

    also, suggesting to someone who you assumed has no experience with FOSS (given that you felt the need to explain that people are able to contribute to open source software) to ai generate PRs to other peoples projects is quite honestly a deplorable thing to do.

    • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      1 day ago

      I read the other replies. I was purposefully giving you an alternative, rather than repeating what others said. How you choose to receive it is up to you. Good luck, I guess.

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Welcome to lemmy - where nobody cares about you or your question and just wants to yap their opinion, because they feel so smart and morally superior.

      • sappy the duck@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        2 days ago

        lol, im getting the vibe. seems the majority of content is bots reposting articles from other sites and these super-redditors in the comment sections

        should have expected as much, im trying to give decentralized social media a chance because i love the concept but matrix is a barren wasteland of empty rooms and lemmy is… this. too bad i dont like the twitter format, i heard bluesky has a nice community.

          • sappy the duck@lemmy.worldOP
            1·
            17 hours ago

            and yet, i can see communities that arent on lemmy.world and in fact was calling someone who doesnt use lemmy.world a super-redditor… fascinating…