I need to download a Windows file onto a USB drive. The download source does not recognize my Linux system The file will be used to update my car mapping system. I do not want to install a Windows emulator for this single task.
Is there a simple way?
Running Manjaro/Arch/XFCE.
How did you try already ?
- chromium ?
- firefox ?
- wget ?
- …
There may be a 100 ways to try
With some of them you are able to “fake” to be a windows-machine
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Search for “user agent switcher” extension/addon for your favourite browser, install, change to Edge user agent and maybe microsoft will allow you to download the file.