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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:29:00
Message-Id: 2740535.HF3pkzTjnX@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive by Mark Knecht
1 On Sunday, 12 January 2020 17:50:22 GMT Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 10:24 AM Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
3 >
4 > wrote:
5 > > On 12/01/20 16:36, Mick wrote:
6 > > > Hmm ... I can see how Microsoft's move to cloud computing for home
7 >
8 > users can
9 >
10 > > > quickly escalate to a spiral of confusion and annoyance.
11 > >
12 > > The problem, of course, is it assumes reliable fast internet ...
13 > >
14 > > At home, last I looked I couldn't upgrade with my current provider from
15 > > ADSL2, and it regularly broke of an evening with, I think, other users
16 > > streaming via the same uplink (I guess bufferbloat meant they got good
17 > > download service, me being far more up-and-down it was appalling ... :-(
18 > >
19 > > Cheers,
20 > > Wol
21 >
22 > In the last month or two I've read that M$ has shutoff the download of iso
23 > files. When I went through my update this week I was forced (but not
24 > bothered) to run their exe file that creates a bootable USB drive. I
25 > wondered at the time how people who aren't currently running Windows would
26 > do that but it didn't effect my needs. Possibly that's more robust for you
27 > with your ADSL?
28
29 MSWindows 10 ISO downloads are still available, I just checked:
30
31 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
32
33 --
34 Regards,
35
36 Mick

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