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Wanting to dual boot Windows with Kubuntu. Am I fine getting a Windows 10 key instead of 11? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by v4ld1z@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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A couple of months ago, I wiped Windows off my old laptop and installed Kubuntu instead. Now, I was thinking of dual booting Windows additionally for a certain game (definitely not League of Legends, for sure not) and will need to buy a new key. Am I fine getting a copy of Windows 10 despite Microsoft's discontinuation, or should I get a Windows 11 key? I have a different laptop I use as a daily driver (11, Surface Go 3), so this would exclusively be for the game that shan't be named.

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[–] The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 months ago (10 children)

You should not have to buy a new key for a machine that came with windows. That will most likely automatically activate back to whichever edition you had before the wipe.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago (9 children)

I haven't used windows in quite a while, but while I did, on laptops sold with windows there was a recovery partition on them you could reinstall windows from. If you removed that partition you had no legal way of reinstalling, because no key was made available to you at any point.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Do you know off the top if it's intact if I "fully wiped" it during the installation of a different OS?

[–] trones@ythreektech.com 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The key is stored in the BIOS (UEFI flash chip) - you can install 10 or 11 from the downloaded installers MS offers; as long as the Home or Pro is correct it'll activate just fine.

You can verify the key exists by running

hexdump -C /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM

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