Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On 2025/6/30 0:53:39, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:32:30 -0700, T wrote:
 

On 6/28/25 8:22 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:23:16 -0700, T wrote:
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On 6/28/25 3:58 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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No guarantees that those “things removed” will not break some crucial
piece of software that you need to run, though. Is it Open Source?
Can you submit patches to fix it?

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I do not think you understand.  It "is" Windows.

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No, you yourself said it is “Windows with things removed”.

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Nothing is added.

 You’re not refuting my point.
 

A bunch of undesirable things have been removed.  And
by following M$ own directions.

 Why is it you cannot get Windows already in that form from Microsoft
itself?

According to earlier in this thread, it is done by following instructions from Microsoft itself. So, in theory, you could - but that would involve obtaining the full thing, then finding and following those instructions yourself.>

Everything is above board.

 So you keep insisting, in spite of the evidence to the contrary.

Presumably, if anything wasn't, M$ would have sat on the company involved. (From what I've read here, it still requires activation.)>

Do you have similar issue with Rufus which does some of the same things
in the same manner that Tiny 11 does?

 That’s happening in the privacy of the user’s own machine. If they were to
redistribute the mutated version of Windows that comes out of Rufus (or
whatever other unauthorized hacking tool), then that would take us back to
this point.

I don't know about Rufus; the claim is that this has been produced by following M$'s own instructions, not an "unauthorized hacking tool".If you look at the webssite, there is no attempt to conceal the fact that "full" W11 is supported by M$, whereas 11 lite isn't.
(Casual observer here, though who used 98SElite back in the day and approve of the _principle_ offered here. [It's a _long_ time ago, but IIRR the _main_ thing omitted by 98lite was IE, which it was strongly implied had to be included. Though I think a few other frills were also removed, because they also did something called IEradicator that _just_ removed IE.] At present, I intend to stick with 10 [and 7 on that machine].)
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