The developer has used the default Windows 10 wallpaper coupled with custom icons to replicate the look and feel of Windows 10. In reality, Windows 12 is a modified version of the Linux Lite 4.8 LTS distro made to look like Windows 10. Lastly, there’s no need for a license or an activation key to use this operating system.Įverything mentioned in this spec-sheet might sound a bit sketchy. Unlike Windows 10, Windows 12 doesn’t force users to update their PC during work. Furthermore, you can install and use Windows 12 Lite alongside Windows 10 or Windows 7. This unofficial version of Windows is claimed to be more than three times faster than Windows 10. For example, the release announcement includes a note that a certain action may cause a crash, concluding with: 'You tell me.The photograph shared by the Redditor also included a detailed spec-sheet of this new operating system. It includes more documentation than most free distros, which is a good thing – but its quality is variable.

It includes many other proprietary tools, but not some we might expect. It includes a proprietary web browser, but one far more popular than Firefox. Given that the distro readily includes so much proprietary freeware, we were surprised this wasn't something more akin to modern MS Office, such as WPS Office, as included in both Deepin and Ubuntu DDE. The pre-installed productivity suite is LibreOffice, the stable version 7.2.

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There's no visible differentiation between free or proprietary tools, but then again, a new Windows migrant probably won't care. The Lite Software app has a list of 37 add-on packages, which is a mixture of FOSS software, such as Ubuntu's upstream 'restricted extras' package – which we feel should probably be installed by default – to proprietary apps such as Skype, Spotify, Steam, Teams, and Teamviewer. To get a feel for the style of the documentation, you can read it online. That's a nice touch, even if we find the name to be a little redundant. The very first desktop icon is a line to the 'Help manual'.

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