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I should be excited for something like this. I don't want to devote a computer to frickin' Windows, especially not a powerful one. If I need Windows occasionall

I should be excited for something like this. I don't want to devote a computer to frickin' Windows, especially not a powerful one. If I need Windows occasionally, being able to spin it up, do what I need, then shut it down and forget about it. I just fear Microsoft's implementation of it. Like all of Windows will migrate to a privacy- and freedom-disrespecting cloud instance. PCs will ship with a minimal, Citrix-like OS that just connects to this and you have to reup your subscription to do... well, anything. That sort of thing.

prox 3y ago
I hear you, this might be a privacy nightmare, and I am not sure that the public at large cares a great deal about it, if it means supercheap computers that only have to login basically. And the subscription is another headache since if you depend on it, they can set any price.
scarface_74 3y ago
How is this any different than my using my own AWS Account and spinning up an EC2 Windows instance in a pinch like I’ve done before? (Yes I’m self aware enough to know that this might end up being my BrandonM moment)
- beebeepka 3y ago
  Too much work, and you have to pay. Why not just install it on local VM?
  - scarface_74 3y ago
    I have an ARM Mac, I want the performance of a native x86 computer, and I don’t have to share my 24GB of RAM with the VM. And we are talking about a a quarter an hour for a 4 vCPU 16GB instance. It’s a simple bash script to start up the instance and start session manager system manager to create a no ingress tunnel to the instance to run RDP over https://awscloudsecvirtualevent.com/workshops/module1/rdp/ https://awscloudsecvirtualevent.com/workshops/module1/rdp/
whyoh 3y ago
>I should be excited for something like this. I don't want to devote a computer to frickin' Windows, especially not a powerful one. If I need Windows occasionally, being able to spin it up, do what I need, then shut it down and forget about it. VMs are perfect for that. Why would you want an inferior (slower etc.) version with all your data on MS's servers?

prox 3y ago

I hear you, this might be a privacy nightmare, and I am not sure that the public at large cares a great deal about it, if it means supercheap computers that only have to login basically. And the subscription is another headache since if you depend on it, they can set any price.

scarface_74 3y ago

How is this any different than my using my own AWS Account and spinning up an EC2 Windows instance in a pinch like I’ve done before? (Yes I’m self aware enough to know that this might end up being my BrandonM moment)

beebeepka 3y ago
Too much work, and you have to pay. Why not just install it on local VM?
- scarface_74 3y ago
  I have an ARM Mac, I want the performance of a native x86 computer, and I don’t have to share my 24GB of RAM with the VM. And we are talking about a a quarter an hour for a 4 vCPU 16GB instance. It’s a simple bash script to start up the instance and start session manager system manager to create a no ingress tunnel to the instance to run RDP over https://awscloudsecvirtualevent.com/workshops/module1/rdp/ https://awscloudsecvirtualevent.com/workshops/module1/rdp/

whyoh 3y ago

>I should be excited for something like this. I don't want to devote a computer to frickin' Windows, especially not a powerful one. If I need Windows occasionally, being able to spin it up, do what I need, then shut it down and forget about it. VMs are perfect for that. Why would you want an inferior (slower etc.) version with all your data on MS's servers?