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In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There are virtually no .exes that are zip files with another extensionm. They are executable binary files and nearly always require a slew of support files (just like Linux binary executables)

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Is that not common anymore? I remember back in the day I'd commonly end up with installers that were just self exteacting archives with a little extra. Idk I haven't used windows basically at all in at least a decade

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