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[–] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

they've already done various low-cost or no-cost (to the oem) windows editions that you can't change wallpaper, or default search engine, stripped out utility programs included in 'regular' editions, and even one that limited multitasking, disabled some network functions, and had hard limits on ram and total disk space.

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that what Win 10 X was? I thought it was supposed to be a light build

[–] ares35@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

windows 8 'with bing', and 'starter' editions of earlier versions, are the ones that came to mind.