Post #1295975
2025-11-05 11:12 UTC
@jk
unclear & mono icons isn't "we're easy to use!"
Linux Mint with Mate desktop and a modified "MS Server 2003" theme with Oxygen icons is "easy to use". Easier than current MacOS, Win7, Win8, win10 or Win 11.
A program you absolutely need might not run, which is why I have actual Licenced Win96, XP, Win7 and Win10 VMs on Linux. Funny you can't have any version of MacOS at any money?
MS has Diskk2VHD https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd and with bit of fiddling I was able to clone my 2002 XP laptop to VM.
Replies (2)
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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz 2025-11-05 13:41
@raymaccarthy I want to do this! I want to take the Win7 that's legitimately on my old laptop, and make it be the same legit Win7 on top of a VM on Linux, probably Debian. So I'm curious to hear your process of setting that up & what VM you're on. Any advice? Have you done a writeup by any chance?
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@monilenyan@mastodon.social 2025-11-06 09:17
@raymaccarthy @jk Sooo, with, I could backup a WinXP drive and then run a VM w the vhd and have that very same XP running as guest on another computer? 🥺