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Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by devilbunny »

microtonal wrote: post #131
devilbunny wrote: post #91

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The Mac is so much simpler. I just want a big screen iMac again. 27” with Apple silicon and no more of this inability to be used as a big dumb monitor when it’s ancient and slow.

Target display mode on the old iMac 27" was nice. But why not get a Studio Display now? It's pretty much the same thing, but not burdened by having an old Mac inside and having to fiddle with target display mode. They are overpriced for 2025 (especially because the height-adjustable stand costs quite a bit extra). But they wake very fast from sleep and work fantastically with a Mac.

Because there is no reason to throw away a beautiful 27” display that works?

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by codedokode »

999900000999 wrote: post #40

Ubuntu. Fedora. Arch. Open Suse . Pick one, stop trying to make Windows look like a decent os. My local Windows install just gave up. I'm very close to trying Windows 11 in a VM on top of Fedora or whatever, can't really do that on my 16gb ram value laptop though. If Maschine offered official Linux support, that's what I make music with, I'd be 100% Windows free.

If you have enough USB host controllers, you can pass one into a Windows VM and it will have direct access to the connected audio interface (no latency issues). And if on top of that you have two GPUs, you can pass one into Windows VM as well. If you have only one GPU, passing it around will be tricky (you need to terminate all apps working with GPU before taking it away).

If you plan to run a single application in VM, you can allocate just 3-4 Gb to it.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by ndsipa_pomu »

immibis wrote: post #126
ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #110

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That'd be a lot of work for no gain and substantial loss of control (due to GPL). How are they going to force adverts onto people if it becomes easy to just run a script to remove them?

Android is technically Linux, but you still can't remove the ads because it's all very locked down.

You can remove the ads from Android in a similar fashion to how you'd remove ads in Windows (e.g. DNS blocking). However, if you've got root access to Android, then there's other methods available to you. Some phones don't allow you access to root mode, but presumably a Windows version of Linux wouldn't be running on locked hardware (or at least I wouldn't buy something like that).

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by GuB-42 »

999900000999 wrote: post #40

Ubuntu. Fedora. Arch. Open Suse . Pick one, stop trying to make Windows look like a decent os. My local Windows install just gave up. I'm very close to trying Windows 11 in a VM on top of Fedora or whatever, can't really do that on my 16gb ram value laptop though. If Maschine offered official Linux support, that's what I make music with, I'd be 100% Windows free.

> If Maschine offered official Linux support

That's exactly the reason why people use Windows. Hardware and software support.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by p_ing »

jmclnx wrote: post #146
sneak wrote: post #93

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…except for the inconvenient fact that Windows is the most developed-for (and thus developed-on) desktop OS in the world. Linux is catching up (mostly in gaming) but nothing comes close to the amount of engineer-hours poured into building Windows desktop apps.

I have no opinion on Windows Apps, but as a Developer, Windows Applications gives me nothing that is better than what Linux has. In fact, for development Linux (or BSD) is what developers should use. In fact, I was trying to convince developers at work (fortune 500 company) to move from Windows to Linux for a long time, only 1 person moved. For a bit of cruel fun, have a Finance person use Libreoffice scalc instead o…

Win32 gives you a stable ABI.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by troupo »

joshuaissac wrote: post #117
troupo wrote: post #14

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> Isn't it only 2017 CPUs and older? So that's at least ~9 years of free updates (free updates stop at the end of 2026 with the extension), which is frankly better than most other OSs. That's the indictment of the industry, not a praise for Microsoft.

AMD themselves ended support for these CPUs a year ago, so it is reasonable for third parties to also do so.

Unsurprisingly, my point still stands

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by bithead »

hnlmorg wrote: post #87
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #82

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Those are runtime environments provided by DLLs (requiring recompilation), not Wine-like translation layers. WSL 1 was something special, and it says something that Microsoft ditched it in favour of "we've invented virtual machines for the very first time!!!".

It’s been a while since I’ve played with Cygwin and I do recall there were a lot of stuff compiled for Windows, but couldn’t it also run Linux software run natively too? Admittedly back then I was working for a place that mainly developed in Perl, so I didn’t port a whole lot of ELFs across. So maybe I’m misremembering

When I was on the team migrating datacenters, we got ahold of tcpdump.exe which didn't need winpcap presumably because it was staticly compiled under cygwin - I'm fairly certain someone didn't write the entire thing including winpcap from scratch.

It was nice because getting anything approved by the windows sysadmin group was like changing the tire on a moving truck.

It was more than a godsend, because when a windows server was plugging into "the wrong vlan" we could just give them the tcpdump command to capture a CDP/LLDP packet and tell us which switch and port the box was physically connected to.

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Post by GeoAtreides »

hn-ifs wrote: post #62
xandrius wrote: post #52

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Already exists, just not to the normies. IoT LTSC. Works like a charm and no bloat.

This is what I use in a VM on my Linux host whenever I need to run something Windows. I don't game and all my software is cross platform. Windows still has a few things I miss, programs like notepad++ (for which there's no true Linux equivalent), and portable apps (with Linux equivalents not really coming close, but understandably so). Windows really is a broken OS solely set up for spying on users.

>programs like notepad++

Sublime text

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by beefnugs »

999900000999 wrote: post #40

Ubuntu. Fedora. Arch. Open Suse . Pick one, stop trying to make Windows look like a decent os. My local Windows install just gave up. I'm very close to trying Windows 11 in a VM on top of Fedora or whatever, can't really do that on my 16gb ram value laptop though. If Maschine offered official Linux support, that's what I make music with, I'd be 100% Windows free.

Once already I got an automatic update start the next day with a full screen unskippable SET UP A MICROSOFT ACCOUNT. I dont even recall what i did in the haze of anger, but i think just restarting a couple of times, eventually removing the internet cable, it eventually just went away?

These animal fucks are going to force people away

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Post by dangus »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #110
dangus wrote: post #107

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This begs the question of why Microsoft doesn’t just transition Windows to being a commercial Linux distribution, especially now that Windows licenses are so much less important to Microsoft’s business than they used to be.

That'd be a lot of work for no gain and substantial loss of control (due to GPL). How are they going to force adverts onto people if it becomes easy to just run a script to remove them?

It’s just as easy to run a script to remove them on Windows but most people don’t do that.

I would say that this vision of Windows would involve Microsoft essentially producing a Linux graphical shell similar to Gnome and KDE with a bunch of convenience tools that are typical to the Windows experience. It would have defaults like the Bing brower and all the typical Windows revenue-generating stuff.

I don’t think the GPL requirement to release code is a problem for the business model. Not all of the tooling has to be released as GPL and even if some of it does, the brand and commercial partnerships of Windows will mean that most people don’t go out and replace Windows with the hypothetical de-commercialized version.

We see this with VSCode where Microsoft is totally fine to release the code with an even more permissive license than the GPL, but they keep the extension marketplace gated. If you want Microsoft’s extensions you have to use VSCode.

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