Windows 11's new installer has a game to play whilst you wait (youtube.com)

3 points by fecker 2y ago ↗ HN

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Windows 11 pro installer now has a hand whilst you wait

You're a surfer who has to avoid obstacles

This reminds me that until 2015, Namco had a patent on that kind of thing. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/loading-screen-game-pa...

wmlive 2y ago ↗

Back in 1994 or so, the standard installation routine of SuSE Linux offered playing tetris on another virtual console while waiting for the installation to finish. Still being used to flaky DOS 6.22 combined with Windows 3.1 on my i486 machine, I was completely blown away.