Checkout on gkeys24 seems to work for me, it should put you through a 3rd
party for payment, make sure you're not script blocking it or anything
(often a problem for me).  I'm using firefox here with noscript/adblock
origin just whitelisting the direct sites.

I just went "ew" as everything I've read or heard about win11 annoys me to
even want to try it.  They basically released an unfinished UI revamp
trying to do the "hey, we look like mac now, come back!" with the new
taskbar and such in the middle, breaking basic taskbar functionality in the
process, and seems just another experiment from bored developers.  Like
when they tried the silly full-screen start menu in win8 everyone
(including M$) tried to forget, just quit screwing with what works.

Joys of using it only as a guest os for windoze-only applications like
visio or project, I usually disable all advanced desktop options and
features so it's as close to XP as I can get it.  I just want to launch the
app I need, and use anything else about windoze as little as possible.
Then go back to using Linux for anything else.

-mb


On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 9:13 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> "I always get keys from gkeys24.com, win10 is like $7 bucks for a legit
> key, win11 a bit more (but ew)"
>
> Why 'ew'? is 11 garbage?
> also... I can't enter my payment information at http://gkeys24.com/
>
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 11:07 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Agreed, use Virtualbox, get the windows 10/11 iso from microsoft's own
>> site, install windows in a VM just like you would another PC.  I've been
>> doing this for ~20 years, as long as I've used linux as a full-time system,
>> and the only way to run windoze.
>>
>> This also comes with the advantage of being able to leverage Snapshots.
>> As soon as your clean windoze vm is installed, registered all shiny and
>> unmolested, create a Snapshot of your image.  Should your Dad get infected
>> in any way, or even just suspects it, before any upgrade, anything dubious,
>> just restore to that Snapshot, and good as new again to a perfect state.
>>
>> I always get keys from gkeys24.com, win10 is like $7 bucks for a legit
>> key, win11 a bit more (but ew).  I can forward you a latest ad, they tend
>> to hide windoze licenses from the main site to avoid microsoft's lawyers (I
>> assume).
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 7:41 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Michael --
>>>
>>> Yes, you can install Linux and then additionally install VirtualBox.
>>> From there you can download the Windows 10 ISO
>>>
>>> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
>>>
>>> and then install it. Obviously, you'll need a valid license key to
>>> install.
>>>
>>> There was a thread here recently about cheap and reliable windows keys
>>> recently.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alexander
>>>
>>> Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 4, 2023, 04:21 Michael via PLUG-discuss <
>>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My father is interested in Linux but he needs Windows. I HEARD that you
>>>> can d/l the windows ISO to usb and that it will install to the computer if
>>>> it originally came with windows. If that is true my question is: what about
>>>> if I were to install linux and then put windows into a virtual machine;
>>>> Could I do that? Where would I go to get the windows ISO?
>>>>
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