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For my bare metal personal systems, I just use Debian stable with backports. When that does not suffice, I manually build and install things from source.

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That license does nothing.

Especially since the comment itself in question is so short that it would be public domain in practically every jurisdiction.

Now do a standard pax command.

So many of the results I see are incredibly obvious fakes.

Windows contains a lot of stuff proprietarily licensed to Microsoft, so they don’t have an option to turn all of it into free software even if they wanted to.

dd does not stand for “disk duplicator”. That’s a modern backronymization that doesn’t reflect the original general usage of the command which is to “convert and copy”. Efficiently (with respect to I/O) copying raw data is only one of its intended purposes; it also converts text encodings.