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Yes, I have looked in the megathread. Specifically under the sections "All Purpose", "Tools", and "Software".. however, I didn't find any general, all purpose websites for cracked software. Or at least, the megathread never had something in it that said "great website for cracked software".

Thanks in advance. :)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

All I see is people "beating around the bush" and whatnot. Here are my two suggestions:

Enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Vouch for teamos. Haven't tried the others.

Also it's three suggestions ;)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

The last one to my head while typing ahah

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'll check these out. Thanks a million!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Most private general trackers have various software from reputable uploaders. I would avoid most public sources unless you know the upload is from 1st party uploader and not re-upload.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I don't know what a "private general tracker" is. Are you referring to torrenting? Thanks for responding.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yes. And by general I mean they don't specialize in a particular category of content, but allow everything.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://fmhy.net/ and your site, what's the difference?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

CSS. Mine is the official site from the Github, yours is a mirror with different styling (works great on mobile).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

you download an original image and then: https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts oh I misread the question, even pirate bay has software, use trackers, try to get to closed ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Why don't you simply use open source software solutions. I find this software to be of greater quality and better than closed source software. You can find open source to pretty much everything nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Open source software generally has a terrible UI/UX. It’s designed by nerd for nerds which is great if that’s you, but most people aren’t so it sucks.

And a lot of the time any attempts to improve it will get rejected because it’s a small team who works on it, and it’s exactly the way they want it. Since they don’t have to market the software there’s no incentive to make it good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Also it's never industry standard, and good luck getting a tutorial for it online.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is the biggest bullshit I have ever heard in my life.

You sound exactly like someone who would use Slobs instead of OBS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

That's not really the case for the majority with some exceptions of course. So which open source software has the worst UI/UX without any alternative?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yep. This is by far the safest solution. No need to worry about downloading potential malware. Just make sure to download from official sources, or using chocolatey or winget.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I find this software to be of greater quality and better than closed source software

You'd find the opposite of you use what I use. Open source alternatives to every piece of software that keeps me on windows kind of blows in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you give me an example?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For many reasons I don't wanna get into, DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) on Linux suck. I have a dedicated windows machine for audio production.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I am not an expert but I think you can achieve some things in Linux that won't be possible under Windows, thanks to pipewire and Jack, giving you a lot more control. I would definitely recommend you to check out JACK and pipewire. Ubuntu studio is an example of beginner-friendly Linux distribution that's audio/video production centric that comes with everything installed and configured. If I was you I would at least check it out.

Additionally, there is a plethora of open source software, like Audacity, Mixxx, Ardour, etc.

And to be honest, the risk of using cracked software and catching malware is much higher and if you do audio production for a living I would strongly suggest you to avoid it if possible, not to mention any legal complications that might arise of using cracked software!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With all due respect, I'm all for FOSS but DAWs don't really have a good alternative. Recommending Audacity over FL/Live/Logic like saying Paint is a good free alternative for Photoshop. Doesn't really make sense.

Iirc the only DAW that might barely be enough is LMMS which runs on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's not FOSS but what about Bitwig? I only have surface-level knowledge of DAWs but it seems comparable to FL or Ableton.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

See my comment above. Bitwig could be okay but it's limited by the rest of the plugin ecosystem being mac and windows only.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can use Windows VSTs with Yabridge. This site also lists other FOSS plugins that might be able to replace most of what you need except for the more specific and/or niche ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Awesome I'll check it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, I understand pipewire and jack. The quality of the open source tools around the actual production is bad. Like really bad. Most VSTs (plug-in synths and effects) are windows or mac only too. 99.9% of plugins are naturally prorietary because people wanna be paid for their work in the audio industry. The only acceptable DAW is Bitwig which has a worse licensing scheme than my current DAW (FL studio) and crashed on me every 30min with no way of debugging.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AutoCAD and Ableton are my two most-used pieces of software. There are no FOSS alternatives that get anywhere close

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FreeCAD or Libre CAD, and LMMS are options, but not sure how feature rich they are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Trust me....I'd kill to get Autodesk and their always-online DRM off my PC....but those are not alternatives. I do CAD professionally with established standards and LISP routines. I'd have to learn a new programming language to even consider switching

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Back in the day I used nsanedown.com. Seems to be around still.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I recommend nsanedown also

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

~~FileCR is my go to~~

Edit: Nevermind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Crap...
Thanks for the heads up. Do you have an alternative you would recommend?