Windows 11's new installer has a game to play whilst you wait

Posted by fecker on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:08AM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-vrOVkwwo

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Re:Windows 11's new installer has a game to play whilst you ... by sp332 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:18AM (#39930025)

This reminds me that until 2015, Namco had a patent on that kind of thing. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/loading-screen-game-pa...

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Re:Windows 11's new installer has a game to play whilst you ... by fecker on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:08AM (#39929924)

Windows 11 pro installer now has a hand whilst you wait

You're a surfer who has to avoid obstacles

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Re:Windows 11's new installer has a game to play whilst you ... by wmlive on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:09PM (#39938017)

Back in 1994 or so, the standard installation routine of SuSE Linux offered playing tetris on another virtual console while waiting for the installation to finish. Still being used to flaky DOS 6.22 combined with Windows 3.1 on my i486 machine, I was completely blown away.

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