my roommate's new Microsoft Surface Hub is running a wacky version of Windows 10 that popped up a "You need to download something from the store to support this file!" message when I tried to run a win64 exe.

HOW DO YOU MAKE A WINDOWS THAT DOESN'T SUPPORT RUNNING EXES?

that's an insult to computing, you glorified program loader
and this is an x86 computer here, not some weird ARM nonsense.
it's running "Windows 10 Team edition", a very specific and weird SKU

It's the most infuriating and useless version of Windows I've ever used.

and for context I've recreationally run Windows ME before. My autobiography is being written on Windows 95.

It's my roommate's Surface Hub. It's a 3 or 2S, we're not 100% sure yet.

https://digipres.club/@gewt@treehouse.systems/116122905249248331

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we are currently trying to update it into usefulness
It's a whole different interface to Windows, very mobile-like. You can get File Explorer but it can't view stuff outside your home dir and external drives. There's no windows->run and seemly no task manager on ctrl-alt-delete

oh and it uses a tiling window manager.

here's a video showing the UI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9nAwiS-m_4

Windows 10 Team Edition Demo!

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We're feature updatin'
the official MS docs say that the way you get into UEFI on this one-button device is that you turn it on using the power button, then when it boots, you turn it off again, then turn it on again
repeat until it goes into uefi

and when you're using the recovery tool, you have to stay in the room

cause it'll go to sleep if there aren't any people in the room, and that'll interrupt the download

@foone how does it check for the presence of people?
@MonniauxD good question. it has some kind of sensor, which I think is maybe a motion detector?
@MonniauxD the idea (in normal use) is that it stays off until you walk up to it, then it powers itself on