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Subject: Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop
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Joel wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:32:30 -0700, T wrote:
>>> On 6/28/25 8:22 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:23:16 -0700, T wrote:
>>>>> On 6/28/25 3:58 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No guarantees that those “things removed” will not break some crucial
>>>>>> piece of software that you need to run, though. Is it Open Source?
>>>>>> Can you submit patches to fix it?
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not think you understand.  It "is" Windows.
>>>>
>>>> No, you yourself said it is “Windows with things removed”.
>>>
>>> Nothing is added.
>>
>> You’re not refuting my point.
>>
>>> A bunch of undesirable things have been removed.  And
>>> by following M$ own directions.
>>
>> Why is it you cannot get Windows already in that form from Microsoft
>> itself?
>>
>>> Everything is above board.
>>
>> So you keep insisting, in spite of the evidence to the contrary.
>>
>>> Do you have similar issue with Rufus which does some of the same things
>>> in the same manner that Tiny 11 does?
>>
>> That’s happening in the privacy of the user’s own machine. If they were to
>> redistribute the mutated version of Windows that comes out of Rufus (or
>> whatever other unauthorized hacking tool), then that would take us back to
>> this point.
> 
> 
> I just use Linux.
> 
didn't your dick get in the way