Hey y’all
I’m taking a college course which is hell bent that its students use Windows 11. Currently my laptop is still using Windows 10 and if there is no bloatware/AI free way to install Windows 11, I’m just going to bite the bullet and install it the regular way. So if anyone knows of a relatively bloatware free way of installing Windows 11, please let me know.
p.s. For those who would encourage me to use Linux. For my desktop I already use Linux Mint.
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They are probably running some specific software that requires it.
I agree that they shouldn’t have picked Windows but it makes sense to keep everyone on the same software stack to avoid wasting time helping people install basic stuff that might or might not run on their systems
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Wine is by no means a stable option for all windows software. Some windows stuff just will not run on Linux. And not all laptops are capable of virtualization.
My uni let me use linux alternatives but I had to do some serious debugging by myself. The biggest issue was caused by snap LOL
“You need this software, which requires Windows.”
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As other people have mentioned, works fine until you need it for exams.
Some professional software licensing options dint work in vms, either.
Solidworks single-seat licenses won’t activate in a VM, for instance.
Not saying that’s OPs specific use case, but it’s an example of another constraint
Yeah. From experience, even moderately powerful laptops can run a win11 ltsc iot VM pretty easy, and that runs everything you need that wine can’t.
For reference, my current laptop has an 8th gen i5, 32 GB RAM. I use the VM for Lightroom, affinity. Runs perfectly fine with 4 Threads and 16 gigs of RAM.
You have no idea what is going on behind the scenes, and neither do I, so we can’t call it bullshit by default.