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Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements
(www.tomshardware.com)
BRUH
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2024
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Hi, yeah. Uh long time listener, first time caller. Thank you for taking my question. Yes, I was wondering does Linux do this? I'll take my answer off the air. Thanks!
Lol, year of the Linux desktop here we come XD
I’ll grab the popcorn while I watch the dumpster fire of what Microsoft is doing to Windows, from the comfort of my Linux-running system.
Obligatory BTW I use Arch.
Cries in corporate systems, balls deep in Microsoft ecosystem.
All my personal devices are running Linux however.
Yeah, this is where I'm at. O365, Teams, OneDrive, Azure, evening.
Except that my "personal" device is my work device. (I get a stipend to maintain my own tech.)
My Steam Deck runs Linux, at least?
Interestingly, the software giant added this check since the Windows 11 24H2 will not boot without these instruction sets, according to a previous report. Though speculative, one would wonder if the company has this extra step in case someone uses bypasses to force the OS to boot with an unsupported CPU.
Why is the watermark the headline
Join the dark side 😈🐧
God damn. It went down hill fast. I’m actually gonna start looking at distros. Fuck. I just bought a mini pc to install OPNsense on but I think my weekend just drastically shifted.
ai file explorer? I can fi d my own files thanks
Oh no, you misunderstand. It's not help you find stuff on your computer.
ohhhh that makes sense
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My windows 10 already has a watermark to activate it
Screenshot?
Read the article? :D Doesn't look like it's live they just caught it in code
Yeah, so if they have the code, they could run it...
That's not how code of this magnitude works off the cuff GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory() and GetPhysicalDiskSize()) aren't defined and might exist in a file they couldn't access. It's also in C++ so you'd have to compile it first no one's going through all that for a visual screenshot of a watermark at this stage
They kinda don't have the sources there. That's a decompilation by IDA in that image.
But nevertheless they could run it if they set up an arm64 machine, technically.
If you want a serious answer, you could theoretically disable all security checks on Win11 so you could hex-edit patch it to run, but it would be (1) a lot of effort and (2) probably show that it's nowhere near finished, because it still misses UI integration for example
One has to wonder how many clock cycles are wasted to render the watermark
Enough to make an Arch user have an aneurysm.
i'd rather have web 3.0 and crypto than ai
I've spent half a day yesterday to set up a VM running Debian on my office's Win PC. Since I'm tied to Windows because of my proprietary CAD, my plan is to limit my interaction to a minimum and instead do everything else in the Linux-VM. With shared drives and drag'n'drop I hope it will work out. It comes in also very handy that I started years ago to strictly choose open source software that's available for both platforms - so no learning curve. Since MS won't listen - we all need to laudly complain about the lack of linux support towards our software providers. And yes, maybe too naïve, it will change something in the long run.
I've gone full linux both at home and at work. Thankfully, most of the tools we use are cross platform / FOSS. But in the odd case, I use KVM (the linux equivalent to Hyper-V) to spin up a windows VM
It has it's issues (like graphics card pass-through), but it works pretty well
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