5 ms·

Hey, that's enough to boot and run apps. Also, if you diddle the image with one of MS's tools, you can jam a gui into it, in theory.

• windsurfer 17y ago
  If that's the case, one could produce a tool that includes the image and "patches" it after installation, creating a free GUIfied windows.
  • pbhjpbhj 17y ago
    Could you install KDE4 on top - that might actually be a very good way to get a clean KDE4 over MS Windows if it works; http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows.
    • rbanffy 17y ago
      Great. You would get a KDE desktop without the Unix part on top of the famously solid Windows kernel. What could possibly go wrong?
      • pbhjpbhj 17y ago
        Lol. I'm assuming someone wants to do it, someone working on KDE, ...
        • rbanffy 17y ago
          To be fair, you could put a Unix-like lipstick on Windows with Cygwin. It will not change the underlying OS nature, but it will have lipstick on it.