OS uninstallable

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 at 14:09, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> So, in the context of all of this, what I surmise is thus; the MS web
> site has detected that I am running Linux, or, specifically, the version
> of Linux that I am using, and not MS Windows, and has responded with "F U!".

Thank you for the laugh. :-)

Yes, it _does_ check your OS. However, if you're on Windows, it tries
to get you to use the excruciatingly slow "Microsoft media creator"
tool to download it -- I assume by some Microsoft proprietary
knock-off of Bittorrent -- and then assemble an ISO or USB on the fly.

The non-Windows page just lets you download the ready-made ISO and it
even supports download accelerators. I use this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multithreaded-download-manager/

So I prefer the Linux page and it works for me. Sorry about that.

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