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[–] h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I'm as anti-M$ as anyone, but this just isn't true. The windows update catalog still exists for offline patches

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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 7 months ago* (4 children)

Ok, where can I download the Media Feature Pack for Windows 11 N as an offline installer?

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[–] h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That's a whole different story...UWP apps offline for an EU build is a "best of luck to you, pal" thing

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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why is this arbitrarily "a whole different story" and who said anything about UWP, it's the media codecs we depend on. Windows 10 N offered an offline installer for that "optional feature" and now Microslop makes my life more difficult for no reason at all.

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[–] h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

You specifically referenced the media pack, which in win 11 looks like it's packaged as a pseudo Windows Store application. You also said Windows N, which is a different case (and the reason you even need it in the first place). I get the EU/GDPR thing, and yeah it's probably a pain, but you said "doesn't offer offline installers for anything relate to Windows 11 anymore", without qualifying that is your specific niche case. Have you tried K-Lite? Do kids even use that anymore?

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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No alternative codecs wont do, the application we are building has a hard dependency on these specific dlls due to another dependency requiring them. It was also just one example of many excuse my hyperbole. Here is another one, try to get winget to work with a local package cache. You have to go to some third party developer for that. Want another one? How about debugging windows binaries in an offline environment. Reasonable requirement? Microsoft says no.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 point 7 months ago

Our work uses laptops and it's already a pain in the ass with Microsoft office being subscription based cause they are often in areas with no internet or cell reception then bam, "please login"

Fuck!