Free download but even in the past you often find they want you to buy a licence. The existing Win7 key doesn't work.
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Perhaps the subtext of the article is something more subtle. Could it be a tacit admission that you might need a free-of-charge OS for your PC? The Windows 10 upgrade program that began back in 2015 was meant to end a year later. In fact, it didn't. We described a documented workaround in 2016, but the free upgrades continued to work, even in 2020. Which? magazine reported it was still working in July 2023.
Reportedly, as of September, this is – at long last – no longer true, and the free upgrades from Windows 7, 8.0 and 8.1 no longer work.
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So MS is offering a guide on how to install Linux either natively or on a VM.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/...x/?td=readmore
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When is a VM not a VM?
While WSL 2 is a dedicated Linux VM, the original WSL, now termed WSL 1, was an entirely different beast. That line is gone from the article now, but we once referred to WSL as being "distantly related to the POSIX subsystem that came with Windows NT 3.1," and got soundly told off for this on Twitter X.
WSL 1 uses a service called LXSS Manager to translate Linux kernel ABI calls to NT ones. Microsoft's own overview of WSL 1 compares the Linux environment to the earlier POSIX, SFU and SUA ones, saying:
We were able to use the initial investments made in this area and broaden them to develop the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
In any event, we stand corrected. WSL 1 sprang out of Project Astoria, the original bridge intended to run Android apps on Windows.
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Some people claim Windows is the best platform for ebooks.
The best management program runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
https://calibre-ebook.com/download
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Sigil also runs on Linux.