Post #2015991

2026-04-30 01:31 UTC

Hey #lenovo , can you stop this crap? I have a #thinkpad x13s that apparently needs a SPECIAL version of #windows11 that only YOU have. And when I go to get it, not only do i have to register, provide a serial number and deal with captca.. but then you give me an EXE to create the media??!?! I have a machine that can&#39;t boot windows so you give me a windows executable? Why not just a damn ISO? I wish #linux would boot on this thing

Replies (5)

@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org 2026-04-30 01:38

And it gets better

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@mrfoostang@foostang.xyz 2026-04-30 02:30

@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org Well, kinda. An exe is a dos executable that may be happy running without a gui. Can you boot to the cli and run it?

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@mrfoostang@foostang.xyz 2026-04-30 02:32

@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org Well, kinda. An exe is a dos executable that may be happy running without a gui. Can you boot to the cli and run it? And since you can't boot, what would you do with an iso, anyhow? You gotta burn it with something or mount it into something.

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@ram_cartel@mastodon.social 2026-04-30 07:50

@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org PostmarketOS (Linux) works well on this, apart from the camera and GPS. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X13s_(lenovo-21bx) #thinkpad

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@Techwizz@fosstodon.org 2026-05-01 06:22

@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org It's likely just a packed exe that you could dump and probably get a rawish disk image from if I were to guess

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