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The article's complaints about the format being undocumented are ill-founded, because Microsoft repeatedly tells developers not to read the registry directly, a
by pie_flavor 4y ago
The article's complaints about the format being undocumented are ill-founded, because Microsoft repeatedly tells developers not to read the registry directly, and call the exquisitely documented functions instead. The applications that didn't listen to Microsoft and depended on particular features are most of why it hasn't updated to modern standards in the first place.
- rwmj 4y agoHow's that supposed to work if you're modifying it in an offline image from a Linux host?
- pie_flavor 4y agoWith DISM.
- rwmj 4y agoDISM is a proprietary Windows tool, so no use at all for modifying an offline image from a Linux host.
- pie_flavor 4y agoI'm sure it runs under Wine. But knowing that that's how you service the image means you have no reason to be using a Linux host to do it.