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Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget (www.engadget.com)
submitted 4 days 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" ๐Ÿ˜ธ

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[โ€“] axh@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days 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.

[โ€“] lawks@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago

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.

[โ€“] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[โ€“] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 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.

[โ€“] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Heh, I remember another distro called Floppix โ€” small enough to fix on two floppy disks

[โ€“] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

There is also Knoppix, designed for rescue purposes.

[โ€“] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Archer@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

I hope everyone uses this new UDP thing!

[โ€“] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

Didn't have a network card.

[โ€“] joyjoy@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago

That's more fun on Linux though.