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So, basically Microsoft's "we know what's best for you" style? No. Fuck that, no matter the purpose.
I was joking.
I added the "/s" to be extra clear.
I didn't think of anyone taking that statement seriously (like how wound it even work?).
Apologies. I've seen weirder shit proposed recently. 2025 has severely damaged my sensors responsible for detecting irony, sarcasm and satire.
As for "how would it work": on systems as old as Win 7, it would be trivial to escalate privileges and install all kinds of shit.
I do agree with you, I could have written it significantly better (in my brainhole the notion of a browser/browser dev installing you an OS bcs it would mean less work for them was just funny, but I failed in communicating it).
Also lol, yeah, 2025 did a number on irony/nutty theories/near future predictions. 2026 is no better, like whym there aren't any HDDs left, what kind of worldwide catastrophe hit Earth & caused that??
The install bit - so getting through admin Win would prob be easy (that was the og joke), then the code would have to partition the disk (ok), install Hannah Montana Linux (ok), but then also reboot to that partition - can that be done without Grub on a primary boot partition or the user accessing BIOS?
I was assuming you'd just write GRUB onto the primary disk and set Hannah Montana Linux (lol, excellent choice of distro!) as the only boot option (because who needs os-prober and a selection timeout when you've got the best of distros on disk, amirite?).
I suppose the most problematic part is the partitioning you handwaved as "ok". Afair, Windows does not allow for live-resizing of the system partition (as it should). But I suppose there are ways around that, particularly if you've got another drive or spare partition of adequate size. (OEM recovery partitions come to mind; as much as 10 GB can be enough for a viable Linux system partition.)
Oh, your are right, I always resized partitions with Knoppix or (something with) GParted (Live).
Perhaps there is a way to use Windows partition without any reformat, reboot into the same partition but in Linux, finish installing the rest of the packages & clean up Windows file.
Using them old OEM partitions is a neat idea too.
I'll open a ticket with Mozilla.
Hannah Montana, Knoppix... a man of culture I see...
...who wants to see the world burn!
(only creatures of culture recognise one another!)
I mean ... if I'm unlucky & live the average (current) life expectancy I'll see it burn anyway, so why not add some piazzas to it, a twirl here and there, a little bit of comedic chaos to spice up the doom & gloom?
You know there is some dude the thought removing the /s would make that a valid suggestion.
Thought virus' are real.
New Firefox plugin incoming ("Download more RAM on your Windows 7 machine").