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This appear to use https://github.com/dockur/windows which is a VM inside a Docker container?

Otherwise looking at the code this feels like something that could be a short bash script wrapped in a electron app.

I got a good chuckle from the https://github.com/dockur/windows#how-do-i-select-the-window... table

  11  Windows 11 Pro  5.4 GB
  2k  Windows 2000 Professional  0.4 GB
confirming the adage that all projects expand to fill available ~time~ disk space

True enough... that said, most of the security enhancements came over the Vista/Win7 timeframe. Just be careful with what you run and what apps have internet access... this setup seems to have full access to your home directory, which for most users can be every bit as bad as a root exploit.

wouldn't this require a license? windows is not free in any sense of the word

It appear to download windows on the fly from Microsoft's server and uses trial keys [0]

[0] https://github.com/dockur/windows?tab=readme-ov-file#is-this...

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