Insider Windows 11 Insider Canary Build 25393.1 (23H2) - June 14

Winuser · Jun 29, 2023

magilla said:
I see ZDNet article saying windows may be moved totally to cloud

I take anything ZDNet says with a grain of salt.

fz789 · Jun 29, 2023

Further, think security, IP, mil/gov/edu/corp... there are many installations that by policy/edict cannot or MUST not connect to any external networks (think of a SCIF for example). Standalone/offline installs will be the only option for some systems, indefinitely.

Brink · Jun 29, 2023

We've gotten the question and we have the answer: no Canary Channel build this week.

Tackling some important stability work before sharing the next build. Hold tight - we're getting there.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1674550252810952705

martyfelker · Jun 29, 2023

Bree said:
Do you have about 64GB free space on any existing partition? Then that's more than enough for a native boot .vhdx file.

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I certainly have enough room on my SSD - in fact 10 times the minimum you quote. The trick, however, is resizing the drive non-destructively. probably I should have used LVM and previously, I had it formatted BTRFS but not after alsmost losing the whole in a botched (not by me) kernel update. It did a number on everything (including a separate drive(but not on the software RAID 0 which houses my VMs and maybe an image of the /dev/sda if and when I get around to it), But thanks for the rep;ly. Have a great holiday weekend a[[arently the Windows Canary devs will party it up.

martyfelker · Jun 29, 2023

Brink said:
We've gotten the question and we have the answer: no Canary Channel build this week.

Tackling some important stability work before sharing the next build. Hold tight - we're getting there.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1674550252810952705

Hope they come back from a long holiday completely refereshed.

CornishRattler · Jun 30, 2023

martyfelker said:
Hope they come back from a long holiday completely refereshed.

jimbo45 · Jun 30, 2023

martyfelker said:
I certainly have enough room on my SSD - in fact 10 times the minimum you quote. The trick, however, is resizing the drive non-destructively. probably I should have used LVM and previously, I had it formatted BTRFS but not after alsmost losing the whole in a botched (not by me) kernel update. It did a number on everything (including a separate drive(but not on the software RAID 0 which houses my VMs and maybe an image of the /dev/sda if and when I get around to it), But thanks for the rep;ly. Have a great holiday weekend a[[arently the Windows Canary devs will party it up.

I gave up on BTRFS ages ago -- and I avoid LVM as well - more trouble than its worth. I find XFS a virtually unbreakable file system on Linux.

As for the Canary build -- I suppose like Coalmines - a vanishing species.

Cheers
jimbo

Winuser · Jun 30, 2023

martyfelker said:
Hope they come back from a long holiday completely refereshed.

The 4th is a outside grilling and beer drinking type of holiday so I'm sure they'll be refreshed.

martyfelker · Jun 30, 2023

jimbo45 said:
I gave up on BTRFS ages ago -- and I avoid LVM as well - more trouble than its worth. I find XFS a virtually unbreakable file system on Linux.

As for the Canary build -- I suppose like Coalmines - a vanishing species.

Cheers
jimbo

Yeah. BTRFS did not t save my system when I had a kernel crash (going to kernel 6.3 actually). I really have never used LVM but it is an option if my system crashes. But more likely I will install Debian 12. But more a discussion for the linux part of this site.
Canary? We will see Weds of next week (maybe).

Cheers

jimbo45 · Jul 1, 2023

Winuser said:
I take anything ZDNet says with a grain of salt.

I agree ZDNET is usually a whole load of "Bow Locks" . Even if that were to be true -- unlikely in my opinion -- at least unlikely for non enterprise systems -- you still have to have some sort of an OS to be able to connect to the cloud, validate the users credentials and validate the hardware infrastructure for connecting local devices. So some type of Virtual Desk top Infrastructure or VDI. I doubt whether the cost and complexity of doing that for the zillions of different hardware types that domestic users have on their machines would be a viable proposition. This is definitely a case where economics trumps technology -- nothing wrong in principle with a cloud provided infrastructure but it's got to be fit for purpose and cost effective,

'Fraid for once - the bean counters have it right and the tech journos wrong.

cheers
jimbo

Winuser · Jul 1, 2023

jimbo45 said:
nothing wrong in principle with a cloud provided infrastructure

I can see where cloud computing could be beneficial for some. As a home user I wouldn't see any benefits from using cloud computing. Another problem is internet access. Just in the area where I live there are many areas that don't have high speed internet. The people have to depend on either dial-up or satellite. Even using cell phones is not the answer because some areas have very weak to zero signal strength. As I have stated before, I'm not against cloud computing as long as it's an option and not made mandatory.

CountMike · Jul 1, 2023

I just don't see what cloud computing would be beneficial to home user with a powerful PC. Internet for me at least shouldn't be the problem, soon I'm getting fiber optic 150Mbps speed and 1000Mbps possible for moderate cost.

martyfelker · Jul 1, 2023

There is zero chance that Windows 12 will be only a cloud computing platform. Hell, I can do cloud computing now with VMware if I want to spend the bucks and time.

Edwin · Jul 1, 2023

I'd be screwed if it was cloud only, we get power glitches here all the time because of the moronic Wind Tower grid...,
takes my stupid modem 30 minutes to reboot!

martyfelker · Jul 1, 2023

As for power glitches, we finally got a generator with a 500 [rp[ame tank/ It should be good until winter. Of course, now we have thunderstorms which are the main way we lose power.

dbartenstein · Jul 2, 2023

martyfelker said:
As for power glitches, we finally got a generator with a 500 [rp[ame tank/ It should be good until winter. Of course, now we have thunderstorms which are the main way we lose power.

Heh. We used to have regular power outages for various reasons. In Dec 2019 I had a whole house generator installed and since then the power has not gone out once.....

cereberus · Jul 2, 2023

Winuser said:
I take anything ZDNet says with a grain of salt.

Yeah it is so sad that what used to be a reliable information resource is no nothing more than clickbait headlines with no substance to back it up.

martyfelker · Jul 3, 2023

cereberus said:
Yeah it is so sad that what used to be a reliable information resource is no nothing more than clickbait headlines with no substance to back it up.

One the other hand Betanews is a pretty good and reliable site IMHO

CountMike · Jul 4, 2023

martyfelker said:
One the other hand Betanews is a pretty good and reliable site IMHO

Lol

Brink · Jul 5, 2023

Tweet from Windows Insider Program:

Hello #WindowsInsiders! Wanted to let everyone know that there will be no new builds released to WIP this week (Canary, Dev, & Beta). We will be back at it next week!