What I'd love is a project for Windows 11 that gives me back full control of which updates I download and when I reboot. I've been living with vague registry hacks and the "pause for 5 weeks" button but they're getting less effective.
There are certain high seas where such things are plentiful.
If you don't want to go through the hassle of installing and then upgrading I'm also pretty sure you can upgrade one of the images in the wim offline using dism.
0: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 (will serve you an iso directly instead of the media creation tool if you give it a linux user agent)
1: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started...
I do work on my windows machine, so doing anything illegal just gives me the opportunity to lose 1000x more money than if I just upgraded legally.
Because most of this list is not Native or Platinum.
Games on Windows just work.
Also, how well does VR work in Linux these days?
this loaded question should be directed towards the developers.
that any Windows game works on Linux at all, given Microsoft's record regarding interoperability, seems like a miracle.
If I had to make an equally loaded question I'd say, what OS are they using to host their game servers?
Of course you can purchase "enterprise" versions of Windows 11[0].
What's more, anyone can purchase most of Microsoft's offerings for ~USD$1000[1].
[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h...
That's just not true. cf. the link I posted[0].
Anyone can buy a Visual Studio Developer Subscription (formerly "Technet Library" and "MSDN" packages) (USD$1199.00) without an enterprise agreement with Microsoft. I've used it for many years and will continue to do so.
And you don't need to renew it either (I'll generally do so every 5-7 years to get access to the latest stuff, but it's not necessary or required), especially since the software isn't "in the cloud" so you can have most of Microsoft's products (workstation and server) on local media.
But if you think I (and the Microsoft subscription page) don't know what I'm talking about, feel free to ignore me. It's no skin off my nose. In fact, it's about time for me to go and do (for the fourth or fifth time) what you say I can't do. Thanks for reminding me!
[0] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing-details/
Edit: Fixed typo. added missing words.
I recently purchased a Windows 10 Enterprise key from a website called "RoyalCDKeys" for under $4. It worked to upgrade my Windows 11 installation.
Basically any reseller will work but only if they use a payment processor other than PayPal. PayPal will only end in misery and your money being lost.
A year or three ago, my uncle (mid-50s, telco IT manager, started on a Commodore in the 80s) decided he'd try Mint instead of upgrading from Windows 7. He got it installed and running, and decided he wanted to burn an audio CD.
His install of Mint didn't come with any application to accomplish this. He got something recommended installed easily enough, but it only supported FLAC, not his MP3s. So he removed that and got some different CD burning software that did support his MP3s, but was set to Finnish by default. He got enough Finnish translated to get it changed to English, and then ran into some sort of driver/support issue for his particular CD burner.
At that point, he did the free upgrade to Windows 10 and then burned his CD in less total time than he'd spent not burning a CD via Mint.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Brasero
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/lates...
I can't speak for Linux Mint, but last few times I tried to use Brasero it was issue after issue after issue with some kind of lower level driver thing. I installed the missing libraries, still nothing. Tried searching for a fix and found nothing that could resolve my issue with Brasero. I installed K3B and it just worked, so that is what I do now.
Possibly the parent poster's uncle ran into something like this and gave up instead of trying a KDE application?