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Windows is 40 years old
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You may also use Tiny11 and Rufus to get rid of the bloat and get a stripped down ISO, especially if you plan to install Win11 on older hardware. After a decade of solely using MacOS, I utilized it to set up a maxed out iMac 2011 21,5" for my son. Using the tool, the experience was actually quite similar to what I remembered from XP times (booting into a clean 800x600 desktop, local account only, etc...).
Oh, those were nice times, breaking into the registry and playing with recreating XP...
I still need to use regedit, not for home stuff, but work. I just did this a few weeks ago, changing/deleting some regedit entries. that will never go away
Not so much fun, when Oracle's PUM install fails to uninstall and I had to go into the registry and remove/change the entries so a reinstall would work.That's the fun of using Windows. I wish I had that with macOS.
I'm glad apple doesn't use a registry that I need to go in and fix things. I much prefer dragging/dropping (though some apps require an install)
I remember when my school got 3.1. I remember thinking such thoughts as, "I guess this looks neat but I am so much faster doing everything from the DOS prompt". and "None of this windows stuff seems important to coding." Okay, back to Scorched Earth...