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Makes sense.

Oh I don’t plan to switch either anytime soon, just making it known as a lightweight option that gets around the restrictions. I haven’t used Win11 beyond installing Tiny11 in a VM, so I’m entirely ignorant regarding any pros or cons about practical use of it.

edit: should add that there’s also a Tiny10, but for me the most recent one is stuck not installing some updates in the VM, still trying to work that out.

Good grief, I hadn’t heard about this kind of problem yet. Increasing glad my laptop is too old for it and my Windows volume is still on 10.

edit: though I should add that if it becomes necessary to update to 11, that Tiny11 doesn’t require TPM and has problematic things stripped out, and in a VM it seems to be updating properly without issues.

That’s why I said traditional customers, who, at least for the moment, also aren’t savvy enough for linux.

Doubt it, too many jaded people who would still pay up just to not leave what’s familiar. Maybe 2028.

This will go over great with traditional customers who cannot update to 11 because their computer doesn’t have TPM. (edit: to be clear, meaning they’ll be annoyed AF.)

Hi there again, I've been experimenting with the new Tiny10 and Tiny11 in VMs, and have two questions if you still don't mind.

First, with Tiny10, have you had trouble with the update KB5032189 - Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems? It always fails for me with reference 0x800f0831. I've searched about and all the explanations I can find have to do with not being able to contact the update server, etc, but all other updates will install. I thought I'd give it a few days in case something on MS's side was being fixed or rolled back, but today I opened it and it downloaded a different security update and successfully installed, then errored on this same KB again. I've even downloaded the update file and tried a manual install with the same failure. Have you encountered this or figured out how to fix it? It happens on both the Tiny10 released earlier this year and the most recent one.

edit: I realize that maybe it’s just incompatible with Tiny10 due to what it is, and can just block it using the Show or Hide Updates Tool… but would appreciate verification if that’s the case.

Meanwhile, Tiny11 seems to download and install all updates successfully. Wondering if I should go with Tiny11 now.

Second, regarding the example link you provided showing how to get missing Windows Updates... I'm not sure I understand what to expect when running the command, and that may be because I'm not trying to update an old enough version of it, or something else, such as I just don't know wtf is going on. So for Tiny10 from Feb/Mar, the build is 10.0.19041.3031, and for the most recent version the build is 10.0.19041.3324. I assume that for the earlier version I should be running the command for %s in ("%windir%\servicing\Packages\microsoft-windows-*-22h2-ekb*-package*~~10.0.19041.3031.mum") do dism /online /add-package /packagepath:%s ...it does something related to 4 files, and then doing a Windows Update does nothing. The .mum file versions don't update to anything newer, but I'm not sure that's what to expect anyway.

So could you explain what I should be seeing or expecting, and/or the proper circumstances this should be used?

Thank you in advance!

lol, hilarious, reader mode it is then

I don’t even own a steamdeck yet but most of my actual purchases are from Steam in preparation for the next big revision. Buy Steam cheap from keyshops, pirate GOG for backup.

I should add that some apps, like Voyager, help narrow down things by providing an option to hide all subscribed channels from the All view. So if you want, you can keep the content separate that way as well. Between that and autohiding already read posts, it’s not that hard to not get overwhelmed by the All feed.

Except that if you want a break from all the horrible news of the day, you have to avoid subscribing to all those channels so your subscribed view is spared the aggravation, then the only way to see that is in All. So blocking communities you’re not interested in ever seeing is the only complimentary solution that makes sense. If only some people would figure that out instead of whining constantly about seeing some communities over and over again. “I don’t understand why this community exists and keeps showing up in my feed.” Cool story, bro. Block it and move on.