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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I just set up a brand new Lenovo laptop today, that came with Win11. I quickly decided Win11 was hot garbage, and installed Win10, removing all partitions and wiping all drives. I never signed into a Microsoft acct on the machine, created only a local acct in Win11 and again in Win10.

    When I installed 10, it never asked me for a product key, which had me scratching my head, until I googled and found that it had already activated Win10 home and how I could activate pro.

    Long story short, it does appear that newer laptops have the key in their hardware somehow.

    Anyway, the writing is on the wall - I can’t keep going with Windows. Which led me to lurking here.