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Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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" 😸

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[–] axh@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] lawks@aussie.zone 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 2 points 39 minutes ago

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.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Don't be so mean? Sometimes I use Edge to download a different browser then uninstall Windows.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why not just PXE boot it over the token ring network?

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 13 hours ago

Didn't have a network card.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gotta test it out after the upgrade to 10Mb/s Ethernet!

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whoah! Did you build the new kernel for it? This UDP stuff is crazy.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

I hope everyone uses this new UDP thing!

[–] joyjoy@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

That's more fun on Linux though.