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.

          • lemmyman@lemmy.world
            1·
            9 days ago

            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

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      9 days ago

      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.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      You have no idea what is going on behind the scenes, and neither do I, so we can’t call it bullshit by default.