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Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget
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” 😸
www.engadget.com/2251018/microsoft-announces-project-zenith-clutter-free-windows-experience/
The best part about Microsoft is removing it from a computer so you can watch Linux being installed.
Replying to @usernameofthisaccount@piefed.social
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.
That’s more fun on Linux though.
Replying to @axh@lemmy.world
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.
Why not just PXE boot it over the token ring network?
Replying to @in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social
Gotta test it out after the upgrade to 10Mb/s Ethernet!
Whoah! Did you build the new kernel for it? This UDP stuff is crazy.
Replying to @in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social
I hope everyone uses this new UDP thing!
Replying to @in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social
Didn’t have a network card.
Replying to @HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
Heh, I remember another distro called Floppix — small enough to fix on two floppy disks
Replying to @percent@infosec.pub
There is also Knoppix, designed for rescue purposes.
Replying to @axh@lemmy.world
Don’t be so mean? Sometimes I use Edge to download a different browser then uninstall Windows.
Replying to @axh@lemmy.world
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.
Replying to @lawks@aussie.zone
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.