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    The fact that you can’t run through Windows setup w/o internet and an online account is absolute bullshit (lemmy.world)
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    [–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Just today and yesterday, one of my friends asked me to upgrade their windows server for their small business.

    Installing a fucking windows took me 6 hours. This whole shit would be done in 40min I if I could install and setup Debian on their server.

    [–] lawks@aussie.zone 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    I made the mistake of creating a Windows VM and believing their minimum required disk space figure of 64GB. It won't upgrade. Asks to attach an external USB drive because it lacks enough space. It hasn't anything added to it, only some bloatware removed. Attempting to upgrade takes hours, fails (despite attaching the extra storage), then restarts the entire download and install process over again. I can only assume it's incapable of caching and verifying downloaded content. There's no offline installer option, like we used to have with service packs. The whole thing is slow as molasses yet it doesn't max out the 8(!) CPUs allocated to it. The host has plenty of spare capacity. It's a steaming pile of shit.

    Linux guests run fine.

    [–] KernelTale@programming.dev 3 points 10 hours ago

    I had to install Windows on my sister's computer. I also thought that since every OS is fine with my 8GB USB and minimal requirements also require a 8GB USB that it would be fine. It wasn't. I had to re-flash it on a USB meant for photos and move everything temporarily to my HDD because of that.

    [–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I think I've installed a Fedora server in 5 minutes. It's now literally 3 clicks if you're doing it manually.

    [–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

    Yep. Totally possible.

    I'm also counting the setup and restore stuff.