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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I've never felt the need to register Windows 10. It's fully usable without doing so. Might be some aesthetic customization that can't be done without registering the installation, but I've never missed any of it (and most can be accomplished via the registry anyway). I have several Windows 10 VMs I installed from scratch (downloaded officially from Microsoft) that needed no key and no registration. There's never been any nagging about registering either. Those VMs are hosted via Virtualbox on Linux, of course.  |
Yes, that's mentioned in the comments that Win10 is effectively free unregistered as the only obvious thing is being unable to set the desktop background.
However several of the Lenovo laptops I've bought have the Win10 key embedded in the BIOS though sold with win7 and that's trivial to copy on a Linux install for the Win10 VM, if wanted.
The comments are worth browsing:
https://forums.theregister.com/forum...talling_linux/