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Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 23:17:32 -0400
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Subject: Re: Why I won't run Windows on my Thelio
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On 5/28/2024 11:12 PM, vallor wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2024 22:26:01 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
> <v363no$viqs$1@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> On 5/28/2024 10:24 PM, vallor wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 21:17:06 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
>>> <66568211$2$8094$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:
>>>
>>>> On 5/28/2024 2:50 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-05-28 9:34 a.m., DFS wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> If you bought a machine which was designed to run Linux,
>>>>
>>>> I didn't know there was such a thing.
>>>>
>>>> Does that mean Windows won't run on them?
>>>
>>> I wouldn't want to try to run Windows on this system, unless it was in
>>> a virt.
>>
>>
>> Why?
> 
> First, I don't want Microsoft to get its greasy fingers on my EFI.
> 
> Second, it probably doesn't have drivers for the custom daughterboard
> that runs the cooling, and I'm not willing to spend the time to
> chase down Windows drivers.
> 
> Third...there's no need.  The system is perfectly fine with what it has,
> and needs nothing that Windows has to offer.  If that changed, maybe
> I'd rethink it.


What are the exact specs of the hardware?