retrocomputing

It does work with plain VGA still, it'll even use 32 CPU cores to render that. It is still pretty slow though, slower than RDP into the same VM even.

The old stuff just runs great for a minimal bootstrap environment. It's there, might as well use it instead of designing a stripped down Windows 11 UI just for the installer.

It's all there in the final install too, if you kill dwm you'll get those same Vista decorations (and broken modern apps).