I am going to eventually use Linux (although need help with a good option for gaming and video library use), but I was curious how long I could use Windows unregistered for? What are the limitations of it not registered?
It’ll harass you to activate it indefinitely but Microsoft has a policy that they’d rather have people steal their operating system than pay for someone else’s, so ultimately that’s it. It’ll just annoy you.
jasep@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Whatever you do, don’t find massgravel’s GitHub and run the PowerShell script (this is sarcasm btw)
xavier666@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Someone should post the link so that people can avoid it
Retiring@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I love how this has 81k stars on Github, a platform Microsoft acquired in 2018.
tourist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Then you may be delighted to hear that, not only do they know about it, they also use it themselves
(I think it’s the same project, idk I didn’t read all that, I’m legit concussed, but it’s still funny)
intro@programming.dev 5 months ago
Oh yes, do not do that! I certainly didn’t do it. And I’m gonna not do it again if I need to.
paf0@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh wow, you rule.
I installed Windows in a VM for the first time in years just last week. I’ll never use it enough to want to pay $200, this is perfect.
folkrav@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I have 3 old DreamSpark Windows 7, 8 and 10 Pro licenses I’ve been upgrading/reusing between my main PC and laptop, so I haven’t bothered looking at the state of spoofing the MS activation process in years. Holy crap now it’s literally just on GitHub lol, used to have to download some zip on a random forum or a dodgy torrent…