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YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
(news.ycombinator.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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what kind of "non-standard windows 11 installs" ?
If it includes using Rufus I'm going to explode
What's wrong with Rufus?
It edits the iso (making it non-standard) to run on not-anymore-supported hardware.
I know. What's wrong with that?
Not sure, but I understood that comment to mean "it would be worth getting angry against YouTube if the videos they removed were about rufus", not that rufus itself is wrong.
Ohhh, yeah that makes sense.
Exactly! Sorry, i'm late.
From Microsoft’s POV, it probally breaks the ToS.
Oh yeah, I temporarily forgot the priority for laws in The US (from least to greatest):
I used Ghost Spectre once and it was great, but was scared off it by frequent mentions online of other security flaws with prebuilt ISOs, the same potential risks as any closed-source and unregulated software. I never saw issues, just got fearmongered out of it
utilizing things like ReviOS or something, by passing the forced account creation, etc.