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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 20:33:58 JST Aral Balkan

   Broadcom: Hey, guess what, we made VMware Fusion free. Enjoy, everyone!

   Also Broadcom: …

   #enterpriseSoftware #IncompetenceAsAService

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 20:36:30 JST 翠星石

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     @aral vmware fusion was always nonfree.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 20:48:28 JST Aral Balkan

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     So you can follow these instructions to get closer to a download but if you think you’re actually goingt to be able to download it… oh, cricket, you have so much more to learn…

     What a shitshow, Broadcom.

     At this point, if your time is worth anything, I think it’s actually more economical to pay for Parallels than to try and download VMWare Fusion for “free”.

     https://www.mikeroysoft.com/post/download-fusion-ws/

     #enterpriseSoftware #IncompetenceAsAService #broadcom #VMWare #virtualisation #macOS

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:04:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     Right, so if you want to download the latest VMWare Fusion Pro for macOS (v13.6.1) (free for personal use), here’s how you can do it with zero hassle from their software update site:

     https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/13.6.1/24319021/universal/core/com.vmware.fusion.zip.tar

     No need to create an account, etc.

     (Don’t you love *enterprise-level* security?)

     If you want to find some other download, just do a web search for the file name you see on the support site (see previous post).

     #enterpriseSoftware #IncompetenceAsAService #broadcom #VMWare #macOS #download

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     anne.💫 (ann3nova@corteximplant.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:10:05 JST anne.💫

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     @aral https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:11:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • anne.💫

     @ann3nova Ah, nice, for all platforms; thanks :)

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     phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:11:35 JST phryk 🏴

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     @aral Any reason you're not just going for qemu+libvirt?

     This kinda shit is why I'd take a proper FOSS solution over """enterprise""" software any day of the week – even if the UX is often objectively worse. :F

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:11:35 JST Aral Balkan

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     • phryk 🏴

     @phryk Ease of use? (Can you taste the irony?) :)