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    [–] hime0321 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    No need. Use Microsoft activation scripts. https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    OK I'm a little shocked here, how does this work? Back in the day when licenses were harder to come by, we used to use cracks / activators that would patch some binary or exploit some bug to activate. Is this .. an open source version of that?

    [–] d3Xt3r 7 points 10 months ago

    Then it'll probably shock you even more when you realise that this thing is hosted on Github, a site owned by Microsoft... :)

    [–] hime0321 6 points 10 months ago

    I’m not sure exactly how it works. I haven’t used it in a while now. It has several different options to activate, including hardware id or setting up a local KMS server. I only ever had to use it one time, per windows install, and it would keep windows activated. It also has a tool to switch windows versions, i.e. home to pro. It is fully open source and their wiki goes into more detail. https://massgrave.dev/

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

    MS just doesn't care anymore, because they make their money mostly with cloud and data now.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    I believe it works by obtaining a real licence from Microsoft servers. Since MS wants to get everybody to move from 7 to 10/11 the only thing required to upgrade a win 7 install to 10 or 11 is an installation ID. And you can reuse the same installation ID infinitely.

    [–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Don't do this. Either run unactivated or do it officially.

    Better option is to run a Linux VM with Wine. As it turns out, Microsoft is very happy to let you pirate Windows because they want your data and to sell you One drive.

    [–] hime0321 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    I run Linux with wine and if I make a Windows VM I’ll still use MAS and other tools to strip out Microsofts bloatwear. If you don’t like OneDrive so much then why even bother paying Microsoft for the trash heap that is Windows? There’s more than just OneDrive stealing your data.

    If Microsoft really cared they’d pull a Nintendo and have GitHub nuke their repo.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    If Microsoft really cared they’d pull a Nintendo and have GitHub nuke their repo.

    It's even easier for them, since MS owns Github.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    They want you to use Windows as they aren't dumb. They see competitors like Linux gaining popularity in the tech desktop space and they want to make it easy for tech savvy users to use Windows.

    The fact that they don't care is really telling.