Can I fashion a simple linux distro from various sticks and pebbles I find on the forest floor?
You start assembling an assortment of sticks, leaves and a hollow bird bone, patching holes with moss that has already started to turn slightly yellow which you picked from the side of a tree. Somehow, your thoughts veer off and you begin to wonder if you could find a larger bone to turn into a flute.
When you look down again at your creation, you start to curse under your breath - you got distracted and manufactured a copy of Windows ME.
Everyone in this thread is missing that this is just a copy of the OS. OP said nothing about having a computer, or internet, or electricity.
I’ll take Windows 7 because it was still issued on DVD which would be useful as a signal mirror for getting rescued.
Errrmmm. So is 11. I have tons. Never take them out if the packaging but I still has them.
Oh, really? I thought they were distributing on USB drives these days. Are they OEM copies?
def win 7
Better in terms of features, absolutely. XP SP3 was a more stable OS. Only downside is lack of security updates, which wouldn’t matter much in the woods.
Same applies to Vista despite being much closet to Windows 7 than XP.
But I bet it’s this way only because nobody gave a shit about Vista. I was the only person who gave a shit about it.
Vista was hot garbage. That shit took ~1.5 GB of RAM to boot. In 2007. Total trash. Windows 7 was what Vista should have been. All of the features with less overhead.
I wouldn’t care either way because I doubt it’s connected to the internet out in the middle of the woods which is what would really limit what I could and would use a computer for in that situation.
Then again, if it uses Windows 11 it might get hotter and be able to keep me from freezing to death… 🤔
Some low hanging fruit here (lol Apples) but Win 11 for surely my location and situation will be known afar.
Bonus edit: To the Wincopter! A subscriber is away from employ!
I always keep a short length of single mode fiber optic cable with me when I’m hiking. If I get lost, I just bury it, and it less than an hour some idiot will show up in a backhoe and accidentally cut it in half.
