I am forced to use non-free pirated winblows software Adob* Photoshop
(portable cracked edition), Visual Basic 6 (portable cracked) and Visual
Basic .NET (not much space to install) on our school I do not have a separate
machine to use them, I only have a netbook computer, but I am planning
Never connect your laptop to the internet while running any virtual machine
that uses proprietary software especially winblows.
Though I say the same to ubuntu and linux mint or anything else fishy such as
proprietary software.
I was thinking the same, like having the main machine only on the local
network. I have a similar problem as yours since my laptop has a nvidia
discrete GPU that at the moment is disabled since I am running Trisquel 8 on
it. I was thinking to use this laptop as a workstation, disconnected
And as another question, what is your opinion about having a powerful
computer running non-free software but just as a working machine (for all the
task It is needed) and having my personal computer running only free software
and giving instrutions to this "powerful slave" over ssh or
I was considering just using it while OpenDroneMap was developing the GPU
support (I even thought of helping them archive this but I'm not so sure if
I'm capable enough) and becouse they want me only to know how the program
works I think I'll test it and learn it in my notebook (which sadly
If it's work-related then this is your employer's computing. If they want you
to use proprietary software for their computing they should provide their own
machine for you to use. If they don't do this, the next best thing is to find
another computer to use. One of my jobs is for my university
Introduction:
I've been running only free software for a while and there hasn't been any
reason to change this as for all my tasks there was a free software
alternative, but recently I was invited to be part of a practice/kind of work
related with photogeometry taking photos of some terrain
