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I would rather get full refound for laptop, if I disagree with the license. Windows is unseparatable from hardware after all...

Use laptop for a few months, than finally boot windows install...

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The hardware is separable from the windows though.

Not always, Microsoft lingers like a fart in an elevator on some laptops. =3

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/...

Yes, always. The link you pasted doesn't prove otherwise. It just shows a luck of understanding UEFI

Some vendor firmware blocks external platform key enrollments. Contains 100% farts.

Have a great day =3

That might be true. And has nothing to do with your previous ridiculous claim. Your comment is further proof you lack even basic understanding of UEFI. But I sense the feeling that logic won't change your emotional position on the matter, so I'm not going to bother you further.

Someone probably buried your post for Sealioning, but in general even trying to install a clean windows 11 pro OS over a windows 11 Home embedded firmware license/hardware-signature on a gaming laptop is too complex for many users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Perhaps getting outside for a nice walk could lower stress levels a bit. =3

In that case, I suggest (not having tried it) that updating the OS and then resetting it might work better? Does Windows still have the reset option it had in win8?

The issue is the update license is different than full install licenses, and the red sticker oem licenses people scam are hardware specific.

You usually must pay for windows twice (or more if you don't know) to be Pro license compliant for commercial use.

Setting a machine up for multi-boot Linux/BSD is not always a simple process with every BIOS firmware, and configuring Windows to stop automatic encryption of NTFS volumes is nontrivial. Even with an offline install for games, if the OneDrive account is ever activated... files are upped to Microsoft cloud anyway.

Running an offline win11 account with a recent "rclone gui" NFS mounter for cloud APIs is a better option:

https://github.com/rclone/rclone

winget install Rclone.Rclone

Thankfully, disarming Win11 TPM/Drive-boobytrap/BS-encryption/Spam is easy with Rufus, O&O ShutUp10, and Copilot removal (note undocumented AI API areas suggested RAT/snitch-ware... the final straw with Microsoft BS around here...)

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

Yes it still supports DRM Steam games, and Win11 x4 gen4 SSDs are now about 17% faster i/o on my rig.

You know what I like about Apple OS, is you just flip around 8 options and it goes quiet.

Best of luck, ymmv =3

  “Note: Affected third-party OS includes MacOS. However, it's outside the scope of Microsoft support. For Linux systems dual booting with Windows, Windows will update the certificates that Linux relies on.”

macOS users out of luck?

Some had to do a manual firmware/BIOS update. ymmv =3

This makes almost no sense, so you would return the whole laptop due to Windows being on the machine once before ?

> Windows is unseparatable from hardware after all...

What are you talking about ? The TPM ? Not windows', they enforce once being there for W11 but it's not some trojan M$ code ?

Why bother making a throwaway account only to post a comment that is obviously and blatantly wrong?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham's_Law

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