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Re:Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements cre... by mbirth on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:12PM (#48549302)
You should try Windows 7, then. Boots in no time at all, feels EXTREMELY snappy, and nowadays, there are UEFI loaders and a thing called VxKex-NEXT which adds the few new API calls Windows 10 introduced and thus makes W7 run many W10-only apps.
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Re:Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements cre... by SpikedCola on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:38AM (#48553192)
VxKex/VxKex-NEXT really is an amazing bit of work. It helps me run the latest Apache, PHP, Go-based tools (ngrok/stripe cli), node. It’s been a game changer for keeping W7 going.
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