But you’ll need a powerful system with 64GB of RAM to use it.
Microslop thinks that “Clutter free” means “bundled with an always on LLM” 😸
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Don’t be so mean. You can do many useful things on windows. Like for example selecting Linux distro, downloading it and saving on an USB.
Like for example selecting Linux distro, downloading it and saving on an USB.
Using an USB thing is the somewhat decadent newfangled way to do things. The more classy way was to download the whole distro to an 1.44 MB floppy drive. \installation was by
dd .... of=/dev/fd0. Yeah, it required 16 megabytes of RAM. It was possible to boot it on an 386 PC. Though kernel compiles were a bit lengthy.Why not just PXE boot it over the token ring network?
Gotta test it out after the upgrade to 10Mb/s Ethernet!
Whoah! Did you build the new kernel for it? This UDP stuff is crazy.
I hope everyone uses this new UDP thing!
Didn’t have a network card.
Heh, I remember another distro called Floppix — small enough to fix on two floppy disks
There is also Knoppix, designed for rescue purposes.
That’s more fun on Linux though.
And you can use its image creation tool to write a Windows installer .iso to a thumbdrive, for others who absolutely have to have it!
Fucked if I can work out why downloading the Windows .iso in Linux and writing it to USB has not once resulted in a bootable medium for me, despite literally every non-MS .iso working perfectly with the same tools.
Lol I just found my burned CD-ROM of windows 10. I seem to remember asking on reddit how I can get a disk copy when they were offering a free upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10. Everyone clowned on me and downvoted and saying I was ridiculous for asking such a thing. Looks like I figured it out somehow.
Is asking for a physical copy such a ridiculous request lol? It gives me peace of mind that I can reinstall whenever.
Whatever, I’ve since moved onto Linux only for the last 5 years or so. The days of dual booting are long behind me. Funny enough in that pile of CD-ROMs was Ubuntu 10.04, the first distro I ever used. I remember doing a bunch of convoluted bullshit to get Oblivion to run on WINE haha.
requires 64gb ram
Plenty of memory addresses to go around with 64gb of RAM. Take your pick.
Bitch, l’m running an up-to-date distro on my 8GB netbook!
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You believed Microslop once, that’s on them. You believed Microslop twice, that’s on you.
You need 64 GB or RAM to use it? Seems like it’s just a marketing gimmick to find dumb developers who can afford 64GB of RAM in the first place. Kind of like that “I am Rich” app…
Some of us bought our 64gb of ram when it was cheap.
I have 128gb. I didn’t need 128gb but it was a good deal and thought fuck it, i spent too much into AM4 anyway might as well go all in and not bother with AM5 for another four years if ever.
I rarely manage to time anything correctly for market fluctuations, but for once I hit it right on the head when I built this machine last summer.
I wish I had. I was foolishly waiting for the 32gb sticks I needed to drop below $120.
Just a couple years more!
I almost did the same but settled on 64GB :`(
it’s 64gb so you can run local ai models to ‘re-clutter’ your windows experience.
I am curious, how many of the Lemmy/piefed/mbin servers can meet this requirement. I know only lemmy.world that does.
64GB of RAM to use it.
Does that mean it does not run on my beloved Thinkpad X220 with 4GB?
Looks like I am stuck with running Debian 13 on it.
Fun fact, at $currentwork there are two true believers in AI and somehow they managed to procure me a laptop for home office which weights in roughly 9 kilograms - a bit more than six times as heavy as my 12 year old X220. Must be the battery which is needed to power the NVidia graphics card.
Is this their follow up to the wildly successful Project Test Everything In Production?
They never stopped that one, actually
It’s called zenith because it only gets worse from here
This had me in stitches, damn you.
Zero details about what clutter they’re going to remove…
E: Reading the original Windows release does not mention anything at all about decluttering. They do call it “distraction-free” at one point, but no elaboration on what that means…
The users.
Given the memory requirement, my guess is that they’re not removing anything, just hiding it. And adding more useless crap on top.
The goal, really, is to cut the crud out of Windows to create a more Linux-like experience.
LOL. I’ll just keep using Linux, thank you very much. Great article though:
[…] demanding 64GB of RAM in the age of the RAMaggedon seems inexcusable. (Especially because Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI and its overall AI push is a big reason memory prices have skyrocketed.)
Lmao
rofl, even.
“Our new product is our old product with fewer kicks in the face.”
Microslop must be getting tired of all the winning.
/s, obviously
I mean, if they are playing most on target hits with a footgun they are winning big time.
I’m sure the event viewer, resource monitor, etc will support hidpi with this right and it’s not just gonna be another Ui layer painted on top of all the old ones like a shitty apartment where you can cut the wall and count the layers of paint
Win 11 IOT enterprise LTSC already exists and doesn’t even require a TPM.
Unless this is a legitimate channel for regular users to get IOT enterprise LTSC, this is a non-story. The thing we want already exists, they just refuse to sell it.
