cannot install unetbootin

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 13:14 -0800, Nicholas Saunders wrote:
> If so, maybe I can just "install" windows 10 from Linux somehow?

Hi,

it certainly works somehow, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say
that it's not really possible, or at least not a good idea. So no!

You will have reasons to install Windows on bare metal. I run Windows 10
and Windows 11 as guests in a hypervisor and advise you not to use
Windows 10, unless you have a really good reason to do so. Consider to
install Windows 11. As I'm not familiar with the licences, I don't know
if you need to install Windows 10 and then upgrade to 11 if you want to
continue using your old licence. Unlike for Windows 10, you won't find
any free as in beer licences for Windows 11 on the internet, but you can
get them for less than 5,- €.

A Windows 10 default installation repeatedly suffers from updates that
cannot run because Microsoft has made the recovery partition too small
and probably for countless other reasons. Keep in mind that the
Microsoft developers don't know what they are doing. One of them is
Lennart Poettering who seriously damaged Linux with systemd, by an
super-non-UNIX-alike approach, since systemd is not just an init system,
but an init system should be an in it system and nothing else. The too
small recovery partition is also said to have affected Windows 11, but I
have only experienced update issues with Windows 10 so far. That updates
failed happened already a trillion times. If it happens you either need
to waste time by fixing it manually or you need to wait half a year, a
year or even longer before Microsoft does fix the issue.

If you don't want to install Windows 11 because you think it won't work
without the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, then I have good news
for you, because it does work.

These instructions should also work for instolling Windows 11 on bare
metal:

https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/post/install-microsoft-windows-11-on-virtualbox

Regards,
Ralf