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You see, the problem is, that you try to open the Terminal on Windows Home or Pro. Personal use doesn't include advanced features like Terminal access. Please upgrade to a Windows Enterprise License to continue to be able to use the Terminal.
Alternatively you may try using Copilot to run commands and change system settings in a text based environment.
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99% of people just use their OS as a browser frontend. They don't care about freedom, privacy, security, etc. They will just use whatever OS comes pre-installed. Thats why Linux's greatest success on the desktop/laptop market as been ChromeOS. Not because it's any better than Pop_OS!, Debian, etc. It's literally just that ChromeOS comes preinstalled.
Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Still, I've had so many "last straw" moments with Windows that would make me consider Linux even if I was not familiar with it at all. It baffles me that there are relatively few people who give it a shot.
I suppose a lot of people just don't want to or don't have time to learn something new.
I've hit my last straw moment today trying to remove the setting forcing my password to change on a laptop that I fucking own. Windows 11 has disabled pretty much all user management features of local accounts now unless you're signed into Microsoft and link your accounts.
Fucking bullshit.
I just need a spare weekend or two to make the swap now and throw wine on it for the games I play that refuse to run on Linux.
I just need a spare weekend or two to make the swap now and throw wine on it for the games I play that refuse to run on Linux.
if your primary storefront is via steam, you likely won't even need to manage wine, steam will do that for you as part of the install process. You can use something like protonup or something to get GE editions of proton but, honestly it mostly works right off the gate.
Just be aware that proton can have conflicts if you try to use it on NTFS drives, you'll need to manually specify UID and GID for the drive (via fstab or however you manage mounting drives) or you'll get permission errors that won't actually say what they are unless you ran steam via the terminal.
It's true that most people just want instant on functionality with no need for major changes beyond colors and backgrounds. Totally fine too, for many that's all they need. But as a "power user", which would mean anyone that needs more than a portable browser, I was very disappointed to find that's all that ChromeOS is (twas a used one in the family). And then when I researched putting actual Linux on it so it could do more... good god they locked that shit down hard. Not even worth that rabbit hole. And that was the intent of Google.
Most chromebooks can be put into a dev mode(which requires factory reset...) in order to install a new OS on it. I have done it a few times.
being said, with how low power they are, they can't really do much but what chromeos can do.
Try sudo, that usually always works
You are joking but https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-settings/sudo/
I love the warning note
Sudo for Windows can be used as a potential escalation of privilege vector when enabled in certain configurations. You should make sure to be aware of the security considerations when enabling the sudo command on your machine.
What do you mean a master-key/privilege escalation tool can cause a privilege escalation vulnerability, who knew 😂
Microsoft has admitted to breaking this. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-apps-like-notepad-arent-loading-what-is-error-code-0x803f8001-and-how-d
It's been a while since I used Windows, but back then my company blocked the Store, so I couldn't install the Terminal through that. But it was easy to install through the released msix package - maybe you can install that through Winget?
Does this mean Terminal is installed but one can only use it when one is logged into the store?
Or maybe I don't understand Windows logic; it's been over a decade for me.
Yeah, that's correct, though this is the "terminal app" which just allow you to have more customization, and tabs, you can still search cmd.exe and make it run.
Is this the inbuilt Microsoft terminal?
No, I was curious about it so I looked it up, it's a secondary first party terminal app it seems, I was wondering as well cause I didn't see how the system could even function without it. Powershell and Command Prompt are still available it's just terminal has the ability to merge them into one app it seems.
Get help
what in the what...
I'm afraid of buying a new computer now
