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+[#]: subject: "How To Enable Activate Linux Watermark Notification In Linux Desktop"
+[#]: via: "https://ostechnix.com/activate-linux/"
+[#]: author: "sk https://ostechnix.com/author/sk/"
+[#]: collector: "lkxed"
+[#]: translator: " "
+[#]: reviewer: " "
+[#]: publisher: " "
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+How To Enable Activate Linux Watermark Notification In Linux Desktop
+======
+The "Activate Windows" Watermark is ported to Linux.
+
+In an attempt to stop piracy of Windows OS, the Microsoft developer team has come up with an idea to place a watermark in the corner until the users legally purchase a license and activate the Windows OS.
+
+If you're running a pirated Windows copy in your system, you should have noticed the "Activate Windows" watermark notification in the lower bottom corner as shown in the below screenshot.
+
+![Activate Windows Notification][1]
+
+Fortunately, the Linux users will never get such notifications. Because GNU/Linux is an entirely free, open source operating system, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
+
+Anyone can run, study, modify, and redistribute the Linux source code, or even sell copies of their modified code, as long as they do so under the same license.
+
+Since Linux is open source, there is nothing you can do with Linux really, that you can't do with proprietary operating systems.
+
+There are a whole of things you can do in Linux. Be it a fun project or an enterprise-grade application, you can build and run *almost* anything under Linux. Even it is possible to add the "Activate Linux" watermark as well.
+
+### What Is Activate Linux?
+
+A few days ago I came across a fun project called "Activate Linux". It is very similar to "Activate Windows" notification that you see in a non-licensed Windows OS.
+
+The developer of Activate Linux has recreated the "Activate Windows" notification watermark for Linux with with Xlib and cairo in C.
+
+This will show a watermark on your Linux desktop and notify you to go to settings to activate your Linux distribution! Cool, yeah?
+
+### Enable Activate Linux Watermark
+
+The activate-linux project became very popular in a short period of time. It has already been packaged for popular Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, openSUSE and Ubuntu within a few days.
+
+#### Arch Linux
+
+Activate-linux is available in **[AUR][2]**. So you can install activate-linux app in Arch Linux and its variants EndeavourOS and Manjaro Linux using **[Paru][3]** or **[Yay][4]**.
+
+```
+$ paru -S activate-linux
+```
+
+Or,
+
+```
+$ yay -S activate-linux
+```
+
+#### openSUSE
+
+Activate-linux is available in **[OBS][5]**.
+
+If you use openSUSE Tumbleweed edition, run the following commands one by one to install activate-linux:
+
+```
+$ sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:WoMspace/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:WoMspace.repo
+```
+
+```
+$ sudo zypper refresh
+```
+
+```
+$ sudo zypper install activate-linux
+```
+
+For openSUSE Factory ARM, run the following:
+
+```
+$ sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:WoMspace/openSUSE_Factory_ARM/home:WoMspace.repo
+```
+
+```
+$ sudo zypper refresh
+```
+
+```
+$ sudo zypper install activate-linux
+```
+
+#### Ubuntu
+
+Activate-linux has a PPA for Ubuntu and its derivatives like Pop!_OS.
+
+```
+$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:edd/misc
+```
+
+```
+$ sudo apt update
+```
+
+```
+$ sudo apt install activate-linux
+```
+
+Once installed, simply run it from the Terminal using command:
+
+```
+$ activate-linux
+```
+
+You will now see the "Activate Linux" watermark notification in the corner of the desktop just like in a non-licensed Windows copy.
+
+![Activate Linux Watermark In Desktop][6]
+
+Don't be alarmed! It is harmless. To get rid of this notification, go back to the terminal and kill the activate-linux command by pressing **CTRL+C**.
+
+I tested this on Ubuntu 22.04 GNOME edition. It works out of the box in Wayland.
+
+Activate Linux is a one of the pretty funny as well as useless project ever I have come across in a while. I guess it is going to make every Windows switcher feel so much more comfortable!!
+
+### Resource
+
+* [Activate Linux GitHub Repository][7]
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+via: https://ostechnix.com/activate-linux/
+
+作者：[sk][a]
+选题：[lkxed][b]
+译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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+
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+
+[a]: https://ostechnix.com/author/sk/
+[b]: https://github.com/lkxed
+[1]: https://ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Activate-Windows-Notification.png
+[2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/activate-linux-git
+[3]: https://ostechnix.com/how-to-install-paru-aur-helper-in-arch-linux/
+[4]: https://ostechnix.com/yay-found-yet-another-reliable-aur-helper/
+[5]: https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3AWoMspace&package=activate-linux
+[6]: https://ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Activate-Linux.png
+[7]: https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux