• Lumisal@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Didn’t know these customized windows os’s were still a thing. I thought they did out in the windows 7 age

    But like back then, how do we know these are safe and don’t have some kind of password stealing malware? Excluding Defender specifically makes it a bit sus

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      4 months ago

      There’s a custom OS forum where I found it originally a year ago. Everything got scanned from virus total when uploaded and showed the report. And the guy had an excellent reputation there as well. I decided to go for it until 11 LTSC came out, and daily drove it for 2+ years issue free.

      In the end, it’s up to you if you want to trust it.

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        4 months ago

        I think reputation is better than the virus total scan, since it wouldn’t catch malware broken up in different parts that are integrated into the OS.

        I will definitely keep this in mind. Have you had any issues with the OS not having Edge? I thought it wasn’t easily possible without causing some issues.

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          4 months ago

          One of the things for X-Lite I would do post install, is install Edge WebView2 along with the other runtimes available on X-Lites website. Not sure if I ever needed it or not, but never had issues with no Edge.