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Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)
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[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a "Subscription Edition," "Subscription Type," and a "subscription status."

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I will regret it actually, as I would constantly be struggling to play games my friends want to play (they are a picky bunch) and I would have to take probably a whole month installing and learning new applications, rewriting scripts, and so much more to integrate into Linux. Not to mention I would probably want to reformat and move 20TB of data to switch from NTFS. It's not something I want to do right now, but it is definitely something I am willing to do given enough provocation.

As for phones, I need one for work. Getting rid of it is a no-go.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    For the beginning you can also dual boot. For games it depends. A lot of stuff works right out of the box but a lot of stuff requires additional steps or doesn't work. You can also check if a game is playable on Linux on protondb.com

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I wouldn't mind dual booting, that's for sure. I looked into it previously but was put off because I saw discouraging information about Windows 11 with all the secure boot nonsense, but looking further it seems it may be a minor hiccup.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    These can be bypassed with some registry editing in the installer. Press Shift+F10 to open cmd, type regedit, and in regedit, go in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Setup and in setup right click and create a key named "LabConfig" in it, you can add DWORD 32-bit values to bypass stuff. And double click them and set the value to 1. Here are the possibilities:

    BypassSecureBootCheck

    BypassCPUCheck

    BypassTPMCheck

    BypassRAMCheck

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