At the end of September, Microsoft published a new report Support page Which he noticed, among other things Record. The page is located in Microsoft’s Linux Resources section and is titled “How to download and install Linux.” Microsoft writes in the guide that Linux is “an operating system similar to Windows but with many different versions because it is open source where everything can be configured.”
The on-page guide consists of four sections where Microsoft first reviews different ways to install Linux – the Windows subsystem for Linux, a virtual machine or directly on a hard drive or SSD instead of Windows – and then how to download and install any Linux system – Distribution using the method Selected.
Microsoft has relatively detailed step-by-step instructions, for example, how to use Balena Etcher or similar to write an ISO image to a USB drive and everything else required.
It’s not clear why Microsoft wants to help users replace Windows, but it may be related to the fact that Windows 11 doesn’t work on many older PCs that are still in use, and that Microsoft may want to stop constantly updating Windows 10. As long as users continue to subscribe to Microsoft 365, the company may not care much about whether they get a new Windows license or not.
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