| ▲ | jonp888 5 hours ago |
| This system works by launching an official Windows image in Docker and then making an RDP connection to it. There are a couple of others too now like WinBoat What all of them avoid mentioning is that the images were intended by Microsoft for test and development purposes on Windows and the license clearly states you need a valid Windows license to use them: https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/windows#license I wonder if Microsoft will take some action to enforce this if these projects become popular. Edit: This comment is incorrect, see below comment from
doctorpangloss |
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| ▲ | kachapopopow 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| https://get.activated.win wouldn't be online if microsoft cared. |
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| ▲ | RealStickman_ 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Most laptops have included Windows 10 or 11 licenses, which are valid for this use |
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| ▲ | BlaDeKke 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Last time i checked a Windows 10 and 11 license does not permit running Windows in a virtualized environment. That could have changed by now. | | |
| ▲ | sschueller an hour ago | parent [-] | | Last time I checked I did not agree to be bombarded with ads and have all my data tracked after paying 100+ for a piece of software... | | |
| ▲ | Hasnep an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | You kinda did... > By accepting this
agreement and using the software you agree that Microsoft may collect, use, and disclose
the information as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement [...] Doesn't make it okay, just legal https://www.microsoft.com/content/dam/microsoft/usetm/docume... | |
| ▲ | user_7832 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Umm actually, you did. You also waived off the right to name your firstborn, and if you disagree, you’ve waived off your right to anything except arbitration. Sorry, I didn’t make the rules. (Friendly reminder that legality, once again, ≠ morality. Victimless crimes can be illegal, and Enron fucking shit up and filing bankruptcy can be legal.) |
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| ▲ | yjftsjthsd-h 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don't get it. Is it a VM in a container? Skimming https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/windows I would have interpreted that as a native Windows container, which I vaguely recall being a thing, but that would require an NT host, not Linux. |
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| ▲ | tsimionescu 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It is a container in a VM. I'm not even sure what, if anything, the container achieves. But their installation instructions are pretty clear that you start by creating a Windows VM. | |
| ▲ | breppp 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I remember Windows containers have two modes of operation as a Hyper-V VM and some sort of container-like isolation. I think the reason is that they had to quickly ship "containers" initially and that Windows does not have a kernel backwards compatibility the same way Linux does https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont... |
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| ▲ | doctorpangloss 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| no, this system does not work by launching the windows containers on windows mcr.microsoft.com/windows images it works by using dockurr, which is a great project but a worse way to distribute windows in the sense that it gets installed instead of downloaded and executed |
