please consider the following as a benchmark for your favourite OS:

it should be possible to create a file of a commonly used binary format without

• installing 4 GB of crap
• using a hex editor

search: How to create an ISO file on Windows

find: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/winpe-create-usb-bootable-drive?view=windows-11

install: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install + add ons, all together some 4 GB of stuff

run: MakeWinPEMedia

result:

'MakeWinPEMedia' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

maybe a reboot will fix it?

@onepict so what Pamela said: https://bsd.network/@pamela/113330382944476146

over and over again, "our" "community" kept sticking to these abusive figure heads for some nebulous benefit of the community or the movement — which never manifested, and instead slowly degraded it

what really gets me about rms defenders is that a good quarter of the stuff in the Stallman report is stuff that he has written himself, half of it published on his own website, the other half on public mailing lists

i have, fortunately, never interacted with him in person, but I have worked with/in FLOSS since I started interacting with computers in 2001. and as soon as i was able to critically read, I was of the same the humble opinion as every other woman*× in FLOSS: that rms can absolutely fuck off.

*all 2-3% of us
×even tho i wasn't a woman myself… back then