Ewbuntu. Show us the installer for Hannah Montana Linux.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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Yup. Gosh. HML was about 20 years ago now. Time flies.
And yeah, as the point being made over and over in the comments keeps saying... we had gui installers even then (and even a decade earlier too).
kinda unrelated but why is this image seemingly recreated ui's rather than screenshots
Because it's LIES!
"How the turntables" -- Michael Scott
First read that as “Windows 20”
Never used cli to install windows in the 25 years I have been dealing with it. I have used dism to remove as much unnecessary crap as I can before installing it though. It only half works anyway since the next feature release reinstalls most of what you remove anyway. These days I just use Rufus to make a bookable USB since it will remove all the requirements and other things by just checking them off as options. GUI is fine after that.
Some of the many ways to bypass making a Microsoft account required hitting the shell in the installer for a moment, but the example screenshot looks more like someone removing shit post-install.
The short guide to not performing CBT with Windows is:
- Grab install media for Pro or LTSC (Pro is better if you aren't a turbo-nerd willing to troubleshoot more)
- Strip out the versions you aren't installing from the install media (forget the tool for this, probably dism)
- Install updates to the install media so you aren't stuck with it updating for a day post-install (forget the tool for this part too, sorry)
- Strip out bloat and unneeded shit (such as onedrive) using DISM
- Install using whatever the current workaround is to not have to make a Microsoft account
- Keep the damn thing offline, adjust settings, configure GPO, use powershell to remove anything more you want out, etc to your desires
- Notably: Disable "reccomendations" in the various spots, those are ads. Set updates to be delayed considerably and to not force restart until a week after first notification (you can no longer disable this entirely). Disable web search from the start menu/search bar.
- Maybe move a few "cleaning/configuring" tools over via USB and run them
- Use MASgrave to spoof a license you horrible degenerate
- Keep detailed notes of every step you do, as sometimes games amd shit will have dumbass dependencies on system parts that they don't expect you to remove