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Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget (www.engadget.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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But you'll need a powerful system with 64GB of RAM to use it.

Microslop thinks that "Clutter free" means "bundled with an always on LLM" 😸

[–] usernameofthisaccount@piefed.social 223 points 2 days ago (1 child)

The best part about Microsoft is removing it from a computer so you can watch Linux being installed.

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[–] axh@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Don't be so mean. You can do many useful things on windows. Like for example selecting Linux distro, downloading it and saving on an USB.

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[–] lawks@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

And you can use its image creation tool to write a Windows installer .iso to a thumbdrive, for others who absolutely have to have it!

Fucked if I can work out why downloading the Windows .iso in Linux and writing it to USB has not once resulted in a bootable medium for me, despite literally every non-MS .iso working perfectly with the same tools.

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[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

Lol I just found my burned CD-ROM of windows 10. I seem to remember asking on reddit how I can get a disk copy when they were offering a free upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10. Everyone clowned on me and downvoted and saying I was ridiculous for asking such a thing. Looks like I figured it out somehow.

Is asking for a physical copy such a ridiculous request lol? It gives me peace of mind that I can reinstall whenever.

Whatever, I've since moved onto Linux only for the last 5 years or so. The days of dual booting are long behind me. Funny enough in that pile of CD-ROMs was Ubuntu 10.04, the first distro I ever used. I remember doing a bunch of convoluted bullshit to get Oblivion to run on WINE haha.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't be so mean? Sometimes I use Edge to download a different browser then uninstall Windows.

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Like for example selecting Linux distro, downloading it and saving on an USB.

Using an USB thing is the somewhat decadent newfangled way to do things. The more classy way was to download the whole distro to an 1.44 MB floppy drive. \installation was by dd .... of=/dev/fd0. Yeah, it required 16 megabytes of RAM. It was possible to boot it on an 386 PC. Though kernel compiles were a bit lengthy.

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