<div dir="auto"><div>FYI, you can change most of the aesthetic stuff. You just have to use the old ways. For instance, you can set the background image using file explorer and right clicking on a picture and clicking on set as background image. You should be able to Google whatever you want to change in an unregistered Windows 10<br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 3:21 PM AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<font face="Calibri">Hello All,<br>
I'm in the final "phase" of converting all my Win boxes to Linux.
All my laptops are Linux. The only Windows 10 hold outs are my
wife's machine and my production desktop PC (used for work,
finances, taxes, gaming, etc). The past two days I've been running
my production desktop completely on Kubuntu 24.04. There are two
applications that I could find no Linux equivalent for as they are
quite old, but critical to my daily work. For those I managed to
run them under Wine and they work reliably. But, there is one
other app I cannot get working under Linux at all. For that I have
a Virtual Box VM running Win 11. Since connection to the internet
isn't required for the app, I can just keep it running in the VM
without worry.<br>
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Note: You can run Win 10 or Win 11 "unregistered" and you will
have full functionality and security updates. You just won't be
able to do visual aesthetic changes (taskbar, wallpaper, etc).<br>
<br>
So, your options generally are:<br>
1) Find a Linux equivalent application.<br>
2) Run the Win app under Wine.<br>
3) Run the Win app in a VM (e.g. Virtual box, Proxmox, etc).<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
Peter<br>
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PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
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<pre>Hi,
I have one app that is windows only. I am not going to upgrade to
win11.
I asked AI the question and the response was mostly along the lines of
security:
- Your system will be vulnerable to new malware, viruses, and
ransomware.
- Use good antivirus software.
- Stop using the PC for sensitive things like banking or email.
I am running the free version of AGV.
I have no understanding of the win built in security...
I am going to try and migrate away from win10 at some point. My daily
driver is Kubuntu... I hope to cure the M$ issue by migrating completely
onto Linux.
Any thoughts on what I might want to do if I need to run win10 after
it's EOL?
Thanks!!
Keith
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