Re: “KDE For Windows 10 Exiles” Campaign

On Thu, 6/5/2025 2:43 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 23:26:59 -0700, T wrote:
 

Transitioning to Linux is a YUGE undertaking.  Not minor like W10 to
W11.

 
The problem is that transitioning to Dimdows 11, for those who haven’t
already done it, will mean junking their existing hardware and buying new
machines. Linux offers the option to keep their existing hardware working,
often even better than before.
 

I think I've already shown you my *licensed* copy of Windows 11
running on a *4th gen* computer. And I don't think it has
an MSA, either. Like T says, it's just a copy of windows 10,
when you run it on ancient hardware like that -- just about
all the Windows 11 features under the hood, switch themselves off.

I haven't tried it, but you should be able to run Windows 11 on
less than 1GB of RAM. That's because 8GB of RAM does not need to be
reserved for AI (Qualcomm), and the 2.6GB sandbox image is not
required either (sandbox disabled). It really should not need
more RAM than Win10 at that point.

to simulate low RAM, you can edit the BCD and cause the
OS to not use all the RAM the machine has. You don't
even need to pull RAM sticks out of the machine and throw
them on the floor. You can disable some RAM using bcdedit.

   Paul