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

Also Broadcom: …

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

in reply to Aral Balkan

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

mikeroysoft.com/post/download-…

What a shitshow, Broadcom.

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

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

in reply to Aral Balkan

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:

softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/…

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

in reply to Aral Balkan

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

in reply to Aral Balkan

So by now – sunk cost fallacy?

Not judging, I've been at similar places with FOSS tools, too. 😂

in reply to Aral Balkan

The shitshow gets worse — you get a .zip.tar file. BetterZip won't even extract that in one go — you have to untar it from the command line and then double-click the .zip file. And *then* the app's in a subfolder, and it dumps a manifest.plist at top level 🤮
in reply to Aral Balkan

Honestly, what did you expect from a company who has the worst propietary drivers on Linux for Wi-Fi & Bluetooth cards!?
in reply to Aral Balkan

Completely unrelated, but that looks like a fun distorted conic-gradient().
in reply to Ana Tudor 🐯

@anatudor I wonder if the designer at Apple had a web design background (it’s just the default wallpaper from the latest OS) :)