A China Criou um CLONE Perfeito do Windows 11 (E é Grátis!)

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Original language: English

Original video: A China Criou um CLONE Perfeito do Windows 11 (E é Grátis!) · Channel: Xerife Tech · 11:01 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: Software engineering with AI, Open source and software ecosystems

Summary

The video introduces OpenKylin, a free, open-source Linux distribution described as a Chinese alternative to Windows 11, and demonstrates how to download and install it. The tutorial uses Ventoy to prepare a multiboot USB drive, then walks through booting from it and completing the installation. After setup, the presenter explores the desktop, built-in apps, themes, settings, and ways to install additional software. The presenter notes that the app store is still in Chinese and that some translations are incomplete, and suggests testing OpenKylin on a virtual machine, a dual-boot setup, or a secondary computer.

Key points

OpenKylin is presented as a free, open-source operating system with a Windows 11-like appearance.
The video downloads the OpenKylin 3.0 ISO for x86 and explains that x86 does not mean 32-bit in this context.
Ventoy is used to create a multiboot USB drive because the ISO is larger than standard.
The installation process includes booting from the USB drive, selecting OpenKylin, and choosing the disk; proceeding with the selected disk wipes it.
After installation, the user configures a username, password, and automatic login.
The presenter reports RAM usage of about 2.6 GB and shows a range of preinstalled applications.
The interface offers themes, icon packs, display options, lock-screen settings, fonts, and taskbar layouts.
OpenKylin is still Linux, and applications can be installed through its store or with commands.
The app store remains in Chinese, and some parts of the Brazilian Portuguese translation are incomplete.
The presenter recommends testing the system in a virtual machine, dual boot, or on a secondary computer.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	Introducing OpenKylin and downloading the ISO	The presenter introduces OpenKylin and explains how to find and download its ISO file.
01:35	Preparing a multiboot USB drive with Ventoy	The video shows how to download Ventoy, configure the USB drive, and copy the OpenKylin ISO onto it.
03:43	Booting from USB and installing OpenKylin	The presenter boots from the USB drive, selects the installer, and walks through the installation options.
05:49	First setup and exploring the desktop	After installation, the presenter configures an account and surveys OpenKylin’s apps, settings, themes, and interface.
08:24	Installing apps and final thoughts	The video discusses the Chinese-language app store, demonstrates finding and installing software, and recommends ways to try the system.

Quotes

The project is called OpenKylin. — 00:00

x86 is not referring to 32-bit, folks! — 01:05

This will wipe the entire disk — 05:18

Its RAM usage was about 2.6 GB — 06:50

Its app store is still Chinese — 08:56

Concepts and entities

OpenKylin, Ventoy, Microsoft, Windows 11, Rufus, SourceForge, Chrome, Brave

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 China has decided it no longer needs Microsoft and has created its own Windows. It is beautiful, open-source, and promises to be lighter than Windows 11. Today I will show you exactly how to follow the complete installation step-by-step, and at the end of the video, I’ll show you a bit more and also how to configure it correctly. Let’s go, everyone. The project is called OpenKylin. It’s a really cool project and already quite well-known in the communities, okay? A project known there as the Chinese Windows. In your

00:31 Google search, just type the name, and the project’s official page will appear in the first result. It is an open-source project, it’s a free project, and also quite complete. This here is the project’s homepage. We don’t have many illustrations of it here, okay? But to get the ISO file, click directly on this first option here. There’s even a little cloud symbol there. Wait a moment, it will redirect you to this page where you can access the latest version, which is version 3.0. Down here you have it for

01:05 both the x86 architecture and the ARM architecture. In this case, x86 is not referring to 32-bit, folks! You can rest easy regarding that. You will click on this blue button and wait for the ISO file to download to your computer. In this case, it already appears here at the top. It has a large size, right? It’s about 7 GB. So we have to wait for it to finish; it’s estimating an hour, but it will speed up soon. Well, it has finished. I don’t

01:35 know exactly how long it took because I left and let it download on the computer, okay? So here we have the file, and we will also need the Ventoy tool. Since this file is a bit larger than the standard size, creating it with Rufus won’t work very well, okay? Mainly because there will be a limitation there that you won’t be able to change in most cases. So go to a new tab and search for Ventoy. Access the official Ventoy page, and we are going to create a multiboot flash drive, okay ? So if you already want to have your multiboot flash drive, take advantage

02:06 of this tutorial. So here we’ll set it to full screen, we’ll click on this option here, wait a little bit. We’ll grab the zip file version directly for Windows. Click on it, and it will send you directly to SourceForge. In here, we will access the latest version of this tool. In 5 seconds, it will be on our computer. Look, it’s already here. Let’s wait for it to finish. Access the folder on the side, you can close the

02:36 browser. And in here, we will right-click and extract Ventoy. Double-click the folder, and here is the Ventoy executable, which is this Ventoy2Disk. Run it directly as an administrator. Grant permission. Yes. Let’s change the language and set it to Portuguese (Brazil). Remember, by changing it here, it will also be all in Portuguese in the BIOS, okay? Under Options, click on Partition Configuration and check if it is set to exFAT or NTFS. It has to be one of

03:08 those two. Click OK and confirm the installation. Confirm yes. Yes. It will once again create my 16 GB flash drive and transform it into a multiboot drive ready to receive the ISO file. Well, it has finished and already created several folders here. Click OK. OK. Copy the ISO file. Go to This PC, the Ventoy folder, and paste it inside. Now just wait for it to copy the ISO file to your multiboot flash drive. Well, in

03:43 this case, it is almost finished, only a few megabytes left, okay? After finishing here, we will need to restart the computer and enter the boot menu to start the installation procedure. I left this list on the screen as it may help most of you, okay? Especially for those who don’t understand anything. Multiboot flash drive created successfully. In this case, I will turn off the computer because I am going to install it on another machine and I will turn it on while pressing the keys for the boot menu. If you are going to do the same, just restart and start pressing the keys. On the boot menu

04:15 screen, use the keyboard arrows to select the flash drive and press Enter. Wait a little bit for the multiboot. Here is the file you copied. Press Enter again. Enter once more. And here you will choose the install option. OpenKylin. Press Enter on this option. Now just wait a little bit for it to load. Some letters appear here, and the boot animation will also appear. On

04:47 this screen, scroll down and choose the language of your preference. In my case , Portuguese (Brazil). Then click next here, check the terms box, and click next again. Here you will choose TC 4. If it’s wrong later, you can adjust it, okay? I think it’s this one, I don’t remember very well. Click next. Here we will leave the first option checked. And click next again. You won’t mark anything here, just confirm if it’s full here. This one here is your disk.

05:18 You will click on it, leave it selected , and click next. Finally, here it will ask you to confirm. You will check this box and click next. This will wipe the entire disk and it will automatically perform the installation for you. Here you will choose the second option and click start to begin the installation process. Look at that, a different installation, right? Very nice, very pleasant. I thought this was really cool. Let’s wait for it to finish loading completely. All right, folks? Look, you have to get this message here

05:49 . Installation finished. You will click restart and now let it boot from our HDD or SSD. The flash drive is no longer needed, it doesn’t need to be connected anymore. Look, it enters already, loading everything automatically. So here we are on the home screen with the project already installed, okay? It gives you the

06:20 option to select the language, accept the terms, right? All good? This would basically be eh to configure it exactly as needed. So, if you didn’t enter a username, just put it here. It’s important to set a password too. I’ll set a basic password and set it to log in automatically, right? For the login to be automatic. Here it asks some security questions. I don’t want to. Let’s just let it enter the operating system. Well, so we have the system

06:50 right here on the home screen, okay? Its RAM usage was about 2.6 GB, quite similar to Windows, but we have a differentiator here, right? This project here basically comes with everything you need to start using it. If you go into its start menu, notice the amount of applications it has. It even comes with a complete suite. Its translation isn’t perfect yet, right? A good part of it isn’t 100%translated into Brazilian Portuguese yet. We will

07:23 still have a little something missing here or there, but we already have plenty of apps here. Going into settings, you have system information, you can configure your monitor to adjust everything in the best way possible for your use, okay? Here we can also adjust the theme, this light theme here, since this background is way too bright, it’s a bit too bright. So, I’m already going to change it here to a darker theme to give my eyes a rest, right? We can adjust it here. There are actually several themes.

07:54 Surely one of them might please you. Look, the hay ring theme. In this case, it’s already in dark mode. I can choose an icon pack. There’s the print one, there’s their classic one too. Look at how the light one looks. We can make other settings like lock screen, oh, screen saver, font type, taskbar, right ? It can also be modified. There’s the classic model, there’s the three-line model that divides it and gives it a

08:24 slightly different look, okay? This here, guys, is still Linux, alright? So , you can install apps through its store or you can also install apps, if you want, via commands, right? You just look for them or you can search for specific commands directly there according to what you need and what you’re looking for. Alright? Its settings are also very intuitive. It has a control center, just like in Windows 11, but it’s a little different , right? It has a few more features

08:56 here than the standard one. The system also brings a global search here, already comes with all drivers installed and ready to be used. When you make a change to the theme there, it also changes the taskbar, icons, and everything else. Its app store is still Chinese, right? It doesn’t change according to when you change the language of the system itself. Here it still remains entirely in Chinese. So I recommend you either install via command or try to locate what you’re

09:27 looking for inside here using the shortcut. It’s a cool project, it’s not a bad project, okay? It is already much more solid than it was before. And this video here is just to teach those of you who wanted to install and test it. You can test it in Dual Boot, you can test it on a virtual machine, on a secondary machine, whatever you find best. The process is very straightforward to do. It has already started above here and will also install automatically. Just let it finish so I can show you how you can even use it to locate other applications. Chrome installed

09:58 successfully. Its shortcut goes directly to the start menu, okay? You will do the same thing with other tools . In case you might be looking for a tool’s name, trying to locate it by a shortcut, or as I said, you just ask the AI and it can add it for you, okay? For example, let’s suppose I want an office suite here. I’ll search for Alling Office here by its name. There, I have direct access here to the Alling Office suite. Other browsers, same thing, look. Same thing here. If I want

10:29 to install Brave, I can do it normally, okay? This is an operating system that is really cool. I think it’s very beautiful, so it’s worth at least testing it out, right? At least so they have downloads being made and they don’t abandon the project. It’s a different project, it doesn’t require TPM, doesn’t require Secure Boot, and it’s quite elegant and I believe they can improve it more and more. All good? So that’s it. For those who wanted the installation video for this project, enjoy. Best regards and see you in the

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