I usually just make a bat or py script to move and create specific files to specific folders.
I only do this because I’m lazy and numbering, renaming and creating folders is a drag and can be easily automated, but just copy/paste or cut/paste is faster in GUI, especially with alt tab and the new tab file system on windows.
Most don’t invest that much into anti-piracy protection and you can avoid it with simple firewall and GPEdit corrections for the unlimited premium spoof.
There are also the key gens that emulates the server or the software to receive the codes or give a confirmation to the software.
This is all very oversimplified and there are an infinite number of anti-piracy methods that the companies don’t even want to try to solve since it’s all free advertising and it gets people used to their software when they have to buy it.
A morbid solution for it would be an all-out war between China and India, they are about a 1/3 of the world’s population.
Ghengis Khan proved that with enough murder you can drastically lower global temperature.
it’s the easiest and most generous tracker so I suggest going with them.
Ok now edit something in word, adobe, old cad programs, etc.
I like linux, but it will never be a main driver. Too much stuff doesn’t work and you need to tinker with it to make it work a lot of the time.