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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Why I won't run Windows on my Thelio (was: Re: Do
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Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 03:12:21 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

-- 
-v