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That may be true but it is surely an annoyance to me. Home/core requires the use of a m$ account to sign in with. Even though you can create an offline account after that it's kinda pointless. The creep factor of windows is really something else.

you know any way to erase that key from the machine so one can do a clean install?? I mean i guess on the one hand this machine will always have a windows 10 license no matter what but on the other hand i'm still tied to the business model of the manufacturer who didn't take into account that...

The other issue i have had is that no bios version will recognize a linux grub while the bios is in legacy mode, meaning you can't install the linux of your choice while the pc is in legacy mode, aka bios boot. It's fine with uefi though. Annoying.

No bios version allows for the windows installer to give the option to insert a license key or select to bypass that and choose a fresh install of whichever version of windows you wish. I rolled back every version to the very first and none effects a change in the installer from windows 10...

And THEN the cooky mess with thinking i had a bad hdd because the delay in booting when i used legacy boot. OI! troubleshooting that was nuts. I assumed my 14 yr old 2.5 inch toshiba 500 gb was finally failing me. The laptop it came from is half a decade gone or more. the msata i used in it...

the video would show what is missing thats why. the setup skips the step where you choose to the version you wish yo install and inserting your key or skipping it and goes straight to agree to license terms. It literally drove me nuts. I thought i had a bad pen drive a bad download a bad copy...

Specs seem irrelevant to the discussion as i understand it and likely a distraction but at any rate, here they are. i7-7700:[catherdersoflinux]:~/Desktop$ sudo inxi -Fxzmc32 System: Kernel: 5.17.15-lqx1-1-lqx arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0 Desktop: MATE v: 1.26.0 Distro...

Would you like a video of the experience? Can i post that here. Also i am not gaming. It could some though.. rx-6400 half height card should surely fit and outperform an nvidia 1050 halfheight card even with the loss of performance from using a pcie4 card on a pcie3 machine. But the new arc...

I I'm pretty sure we are not both having the same conversation.

Every PC i ever built when i went to install Windows for dual booting on linux i had the option to choose a Windows Edition... Home, Pro, Educational etc. But these business machines, HP EliteDesk G3 SFF it's hardwired to only allow core/home version and you don't get the option to select a...