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Sorry to leave Zorin (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by oyzmo@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Just switched Zorin for Win11 on my kids computer (yes, it did hurt and still does 😭). His friends play Fortnite and he felt left out. Windows is the only option if he want to play?

Btw downloaded newest Microslop Windows 11, but still during installation there was a gust from the past; I had to use my other computer to download the wifi card driver, which I had to "select from disk" when installing 😂 in 2026!! (tplink ex3000). Worked flawless on Linux.

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[–] oyzmo@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

True, but haven't used Windows for quite a while. Got several computers and licenses, and I know I got at least 2 pro licenses, but Microslop insisted I only have home. (got 2-3 home licenses too). I can't figure out which key is which, which ones are stored in my account (where can I check this?). Stored the original Win10 keys, but think they changed when upgraded to 11 - dunno how to solve that. Would be nice with a page that lists all licenses for my user, also somewhere I can check my 10 keys and get info on which are upgraded to 11 and what the new keys are. 😅

Thanks for lots of suggestions here, some helpfull and some not so helpfull. Allthough impressed on the number of helpfull posts actually. Got home installed now, pro doesn't really matter for my son playing Fortnite. All good 🥳 .. well, except that I now have a Windows machine on my network 😆

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That feature is already there, although many people choose not to use it. If you login using your Microsoft account, you can list all the linked licenses. It doesn't list product keys for security reasons, but your devices are listed there.

https://account.microsoft.com/devices

There a number of ways to expose the product key, powershell scrips are everywhere.

I am taking the other journey, from being Windows to setting up my first Linux box. I just plugged in an external drive thinking it would just work. Wrong.

[–] oyzmo@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

thnks 😊