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gdulli ◴[] No.45763751[source]
There used to be a much bigger scene around custom Windows installs and I hope it gets resurrected if/when the ability to create local accounts goes away. The desire for a tiny install is pretty niche at this point but I could see demand going up to preserve local accounts.

Or perhaps that won't be necessary because certain enterprise customers will insist on local accounts and it will be easier for pirates to just tap into that install path? One way or another, if/when local accounts go away I hope there's some option to work around it.

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tapoxi ◴[] No.45763978[source]
Why not just invest in Wine?
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1. ssl-3 ◴[] No.45764746[source]
Why even do that? I don't want a better Windows than Windows so I can run Windows programs on my not-Windows computer.

I want Linux software, instead.

(I'm old enough to have once had a "better Windows than Windows" experience, with OS/2 Warp -- ~30 years ago. It was a very nice system that completely failed to thrive, with many back then blaming its quite good Windows compatibility for that failure.)