Installing Windows software

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:28:54 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 12/10/2024 13:32, Robert Heller wrote:
> > MS-Windows 11 will only install on very new hardware. MS-Windows 10 is nearing
> > EOL. You can't "just install" MS-Windows. You need to buy a license key to use
> > it. (I don't know if it will install without a key, or if it will run in any
> > meaningful way without a licence key.)
> 
> Thank you. I didn't know Win-11 was aimed at only new hardware (someone 
> told me that "current" Windows -- probably Win-10 at the time -- would 
> install even on quite old machines, but my memory may be playing tricks).

M$ business model depends on people buying new computers (the "Microsoft
Tax"). M$ gets no revenue from people endlessly upgrading: Win 7 => Win 8 =>
Win 10 => Win 11, etc. M$ has marked Win 11 as a break point -- the escuse
being "security", since the requirement is for hardware security (TPM?). What
is not known if the XP "game" will be repeated (people running Win 10 for
*years and years* after its EOL). Probably not, because Office 365 will not
work on Win 10, once Win 10 goes EOL -- "upgrade or lose you docs in the
cloud".  (Of course, since Office 365 is supposed to work via a webbrowser 
under Linux, there might be a some migration from Win10 to Linux on older 
hardware. And for people who don't use Office 365...)

Yes, I believe Win 10 will install on older hardware (not too old -- probably 
not a 32-bit system, but older 64-bit probably yes).

> 
> I believe I am still entitled to use my university's site license key, 
> so I need to check that.
> 
> > There is already documentation on installing TeX Live on MS-Windows here
> 
> TeX is not the problem, fortunately: I've been using it for decades, 
> just not on Windows :-)

The link I found was for MS-Windows.  (Maybe not colorfully screenshoted, but 
there were also YouTube videos in the search results "installing texlive on 
MS-Windows".)

> 
> On 12/10/2024 21:15, Phil wrote:
>  >
> > You can install Win 10 without a key and run it permanently with no
> > real restrictions except personalizing the PC ie changing your
> > desktop background, not a showstopper.
> Aha. That must be what I getting confused about, thank you.
> 
> The real question is, for new-user screen-by-screen documentation, how 
> much of a VISUAL difference would there be between running the TeX Live 
> installer under Win-10 and Win-11? My understanding is that once inside 
> the installer, it looks the same regardless of the OS EXCEPT that the 
> presentation of key selectors like directory structures would be in the 
> relevant format for the OS, so I would want to see them with colons and 
> backslashes.
> 
> However, I still need to settle on VM, emulator, or sacrificial Win-10.
> 
> Peter
> 

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