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  • Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Rufus To Save My Laptop Fro

    From Tyrone@21:1/5 to Joel on Sun Jun 29 00:37:07 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 11:28:25 AM EDT, "Joel" <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

    T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 6/26/25 3:20 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:

    I just used rufus to make a USB install drive

    Same thing I do with me W10 customers. I think
    folks are making too big a deal out of all this.


    And when M$ suddenly and without warning makes it impossible to run
    Win11 with unsupported hardware?

    I can't see that ever happening. MS is desperate to get people running
    Windows 11. That's why you can buy legitimate license keys for Windows 11 Pro for $15, and each is good for installing on 2 computers. $7.50 is a reasonable price for Win 11 on a computer if it currently does not have Windows on it, or for a VM instance. That's how I am running Win 11 Arm in a VM on this MacBook Pro.

    Not to mention that MS is not supporting my installs on my unsupported hardware. You get a very clear warning about not being supported, before you install. So why should MS give a shit? Hell, Apple did not give a shit when people (including me) were installing OS X on non-Apple Intel PCs 15-20 years ago.

    I have used Rufus to install Win 11 24H2 on two 6th gen i5 tablets so far.
    One had Win 10 and the other had Win 11 from 2021. Both have 256GB SSDs and 8GB RAM, so plenty of hardware for TABLET use. Working fine on both. Plus
    since they were both updates, no license key needed.

    But what I REALLY like is that it puts ME in control of updating. You get updates, but what you won't get is the 2025 version of Win 11 when it comes out. Which is fine with me. If/when I ever need it, I can make a new USB
    stick and do the updates myself. NOT when MS decides to push it me.

    So you might say it is Windows Win-Win.

    Sorry. I couldn't resist.

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Sat Jun 28 20:05:03 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Tyrone wrote on 6/28/2025 7:37 PM:
    On Jun 27, 2025 at 11:28:25 AM EDT, "Joel" <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

    T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 6/26/25 3:20 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:

    I just used rufus to make a USB install drive

    Same thing I do with me W10 customers. I think
    folks are making too big a deal out of all this.


    And when M$ suddenly and without warning makes it impossible to run
    Win11 with unsupported hardware?

    I'd just load an older operating system from a backup disk image.

    Takes about 10 minutes.

    Hell, I used windows XP for almost 20 years (until 2019).


    I can't see that ever happening. MS is desperate to get people running Windows 11. That's why you can buy legitimate license keys for Windows 11 Pro
    for $15, and each is good for installing on 2 computers. $7.50 is a reasonable
    price for Win 11 on a computer if it currently does not have Windows on it, or
    for a VM instance. That's how I am running Win 11 Arm in a VM on this MacBook Pro.

    Not to mention that MS is not supporting my installs on my unsupported hardware. You get a very clear warning about not being supported, before you install. So why should MS give a shit? Hell, Apple did not give a shit when people (including me) were installing OS X on non-Apple Intel PCs 15-20 years ago.

    I have used Rufus to install Win 11 24H2 on two 6th gen i5 tablets so far. One had Win 10 and the other had Win 11 from 2021. Both have 256GB SSDs and 8GB RAM, so plenty of hardware for TABLET use. Working fine on both. Plus since they were both updates, no license key needed.

    But what I REALLY like is that it puts ME in control of updating. You get updates, but what you won't get is the 2025 version of Win 11 when it comes out. Which is fine with me. If/when I ever need it, I can make a new USB stick and do the updates myself. NOT when MS decides to push it me.

    So you might say it is Windows Win-Win.

    Sorry. I couldn't resist.


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