Websites to download cracked software for Windows?
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
But I would say the Libre office should be good enough for 98% of the usage and you would hardly find any interoperability issues, due to the constant dedication of their developers who reverse engineered a lot of MS shenanigans.
Well what are you expecting? Not even between MS Office versions things work sometimes, and after all we're talking about Excel, the piece of shit software made by some genius team that thinks that having data stored in multiple encodings.. Also from the same team you get dates that are stored as strings and parsed live according to whatever computer language / locate you're using making it a total mess when you've to share spreadsheets across languages. Only if there weren't already good and solid technical solutions used by every developer out there to deal with those kinds of things. UTF-8, ISO dates, timestamps :P