Hey everyone!

I got my desktop with dual boot (Kubuntu & W11) and wanted to know if I ever go fully Kubuntu, am I able to reinstall Windows again?

I don’t have a disc, but my desktop came with it pre-installed. Is it tied to my Live account?

  • indomara@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just set up a brand new Lenovo laptop today, that came with Win11. I quickly decided Win11 was hot garbage, and installed Win10, removing all partitions and wiping all drives. I never signed into a Microsoft acct on the machine, created only a local acct in Win11 and again in Win10.

    When I installed 10, it never asked me for a product key, which had me scratching my head, until I googled and found that it had already activated Win10 home and how I could activate pro.

    Long story short, it does appear that newer laptops have the key in their hardware somehow.

    Anyway, the writing is on the wall - I can’t keep going with Windows. Which led me to lurking here.

    • Frank Sonderborg@mastodon.ie
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      1 year ago

      @indomara @db2 Just bought a Samsun Tab9 tablet to replace my Tab2 one. Quite impressed with all the bits n bobs you can do. its running android 13 which I hope is lucky for some. Quite happy with my John Lewis purchase which included a free cover n Keypad,