Thread: New Windows Kindle app announced; Current Kindle app unavailable after 30/06/2026
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Old 07-18-2026, 07:04 PM   #324
John F
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Hacks to allow Win11 to install or run may be later bricked by Microsoft without warning! The options are:
1. Buy a Win11 compliant PC.
2. Run Linux or BSD on the existing PC. You can run some Windows programs on WINE (inc some that no longer work on 64 bit windows), or have a VM with any version of Windows XP to Win 10. Older versions of Windows can run in VM, but Guest utilities are not supported (mapping USB, copy files, etc). This might not run any new Kindle program, though it used to. Buying eBooks from anywhere other than Amazon, Apple or B&N isn't usually a problem.
3. Buy a Mac. Later when Apple don't support it, run Linux on it. This likely doesn’t help with liberating Kindle ebooks and can be twice as expensive.
Can it really be "bricked"? I ask because I too often see the term "bricked" used rather loosly.
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