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To be fair, Rufus is circumventing Microsoft's download methods. It would be nice if they were more open but it's not like these aren't available from official
by bragr 4y ago
To be fair, Rufus is circumventing Microsoft's download methods. It would be nice if they were more open but it's not like these aren't available from official sources:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
- V__ 4y agoI agree. As long as Microsoft provides an easy way to download ISOs, it's their prerogative to deny third-party tools access.
- captainmuon 4y agoThey are not entirely available. I think you cannot download all editions, only the latest releases, and if you use Windows it will tell you to use the media creation tool. Which is a weird thing that takes a long time and assembles an ISO from who knows what (it seems to take parts from your PC and to download other parts). It's really hard to get a vanilla ISO.
- zhfliz 4y agoif you spoof your user agent to not show windows it'll let you download an ISO directly from MS instead of just MCT
- yrro 4y agoI assumed the media creation tool was breaking apart the ISO image & splitting any files too large to fit onto a FAT32 filesystem: https://robots.org.uk/CreatingWindows10InstallerUSBFromLinux https://robots.org.uk/CreatingWindows10InstallerUSBFromLinux
- encryptluks2 4y agoIt isn't the latest release from my experience. Microsoft releases new ISO's on MSDN every month. The one that is publicly available is usually the first major build, which can be months to even years behind.
- smileybarry 4y agoYou can download ISOs on Windows now, I just did a week ago to install a VM. > Which is a weird thing that takes a long time and assembles an ISO from who knows what (it seems to take parts from your PC and to download other parts). It doesn’t use your PC’s files, it does recompress the install image into 2 parts in a different Windows disk image format to fit on FAT32 (4GB file limitation), so that you could use the ISO on a USB flash drive without needing a secondary bootloader.
- noAnswer 4y agoThe Media Creation Tool for Windows 10 (don't know about 11 at this point) is so annoying. Not only does it need admin rights, but the whole desktop session needs to be from a user in the Administrator group. So you can't just right click "Run as Administrator". Downloading and potentially burning a ISO shouldn't require admin rights at all. It got actively programmed to be shitty. This is not an accident.
- giancarlostoro 4y agoEspecially if your OS is compromised or in a FUBAR state and you really need a simple ISO.
- cowtools 4y agoI'm pretty sure interacting with storage directly (not through the filesystem) should require admin rights.
- Dylan16807 4y agoWhich it doesn't need to do when you tell it to make an iso.
- mmis1000 4y agoI guess it just shared some code path with Windows update (as it is exactly the same server) and thus ended require permission it didn't need to use.