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Message 154 - Posted: 30 Nov 2025, 19:33:57 UTC

No work for Windows? Is that correct?
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Message 155 - Posted: 30 Nov 2025, 20:04:06 UTC - in response to Message 154.  

Yes, like gaia that is doing similar work there is only a Linux app currently.
https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/apps.php
My understanding is that they do not have Windows expertise.
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Message 156 - Posted: 1 Dec 2025, 0:18:11 UTC

You've already asked this question and it's the topic of the other two threads in this sub forum.
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Message 176 - Posted: 1 Jan 2026, 9:51:30 UTC

Hello, it's a real shame that a project based on shared/distributed computing, funded by the EU, isn't accessible to the approximately 75% of Windows-equipped machines sold worldwide. This goes somewhat against the philosophy of BOINC and further limits the power that could be allocated to this project.
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Message 179 - Posted: 2 Jan 2026, 7:00:37 UTC - in response to Message 176.  

NB : On your own project page :
SPACIOUS@home
contributes to the SPACIOUS project by providing a volunteer computing platform based on BOINC, which allows any citizen with a laptop to contribute to solving cutting-edge astrophysical problems.
Professional astronomers registered in the project will prepare small data fractions with computing jobs to be distributed among volunteers. In order to start helping astronomers disentangling the mysteries of the universe, you just need to register to SPACIOUS@home and share your computing idle time.

+/- 75 % of these = Windows
only +/- 4 % = Linux
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Message 248 - Posted: 26 Feb 2026, 12:13:46 UTC - in response to Message 154.  

In reply to Luca's message of 30 Nov 2025:
No work for Windows? Is that correct?


Look up top under Computing/Applications and you can answer your own question.
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Message 249 - Posted: 26 Feb 2026, 23:12:28 UTC - in response to Message 179.  

You can setup a VM or WSL and crunch the work units on a Windows machine. Its very technical to setup and requires making big changes to your computer, sometimes entering your BIOS

If you are interested in going down that path then there are plenty of guides and forums available to teach you how
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Message 250 - Posted: 27 Feb 2026, 1:54:23 UTC
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Yeah mikey basically gave that same response in the thread directly below this one started by the same user where I gave the response mikey did in this thread.
https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/forum_thread.php?id=16&postid=76#76
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Message 257 - Posted: 10 Mar 2026, 20:54:35 UTC - in response to Message 179.  

What are these statistics based on?
Desktop users?

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