sorry for the weird cropping but at least I recorded first boot on time lol

I still don’t get how Windows got so early into the notifications trend, one of the very few things they were ahead of their time

time to see if WinFS works!

no, no it doesn’t

but at least Aurora works lol

yes, exactly

btw if you’re wondering: this is Aurora

the color thingie

ah, UAC is in here

kinda

Managed to install QEMU drivers for QXL, I added it as a secondary video card, inserted the 0.1.160 ISO into the VM and let Windows do the rest!

I now wonder if I can get the VMware display with 3D acceleration…?

…nah

if I want 3D acceleration at this point I probably need VMware or, if I’m lucky enough, Virtualbox

I like this artifact

I can’t think of any way to get Aero working other than using VMware right now

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmph

proprietary software in action

(AUR package managers could as well tell me the source of the binary/script contained in that PKGBUILD… right?)

[AppLoader] GLib does not have GSettings support.

of course there’s no way native proprietary software will ever work smoothly on Linux

(didn’t need to fix that though, because the problem I had was unrelated: linux-headers was missing and because of that VMware kernel modules weren’t installed)

(this is painful to say)

(I’m never tampering my main kernel ever again)

VMware is sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow what happened??????

took some solid 2-3 minutes to boot

QEMU took 10 seconds

oh and apparently this is an issue too https://askubuntu.com/questions/832755/no-3d-support-is-available-from-the-host-on-all-vmware-guests/905294#905294

at least it rebooted without freezing lol

I suspect the slow startup performance was related to IDE (CD-ROM) emulation, but who knows

an eternity and a half later

longhorn.ms has all the info you need for this step https://longhorn.ms/installing-drivers/

aaaaaaaaand this VM is ready to run Aero!!!!

instructions to enable are here: https://longhorn.ms/aero-done-right/

something like this should do the trick

HEY WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT OMG

OKOKOK I JUST NEED TO FIGURE OUT WINFS NOW

ok so, guess what happens now — will it work?

welp, it worked! but it also didn’t!

WinFS is running but I didn’t assign a folder for it, so I need to copy things manually into some virtual network storage path

But, yeah, here’s the virtual folder

or maybe it’s not that manual — let me see

it is time to go, into the WORLD WIDE WEB

ah, good old IE

I adore that globe animation, the colors are so right

uh

hey Windows, are you ok pal

(I forgot to enable cursor recording here, but it does change speed randomly depending on cursor position)

and there you go, WinFS in action!