• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    7 days ago

    I mean, they could solve it by not making the mandatory successor an ad-laden, AI-infested, personal data harvesting, privacy-nightmare shit show. That would be a start. And also relax whatever the artificial requirement is that makes a lot of Win10 machines incompatible with 11.

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      7 days ago

      Windows 10 is already an ad-laden, AI-infested, personal data harvesting, privacy-nightmare shit show. The problem with 11 is the ridiculous hardware requirements.

      Windows 10 is trash and has always been. Windows 7 was the last good Windows, and I would still use it if it had security updates and DX12 support (I obviously mainly use Linux, but my gaming PC is on Windows, and no, some games I play and software I use 100% do not work on Linux).

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        7 days ago

        Probably is. I use Linux for everything and only use Win10 at work on a VM with enterprise/LTSB version, so I’ve been shielded from most of its enshittification.

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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      7 days ago

      You can bypass the requirements since yeah, they were always artificial. I believe Rufus has an option when creating Win11 install USBs to remove the TPM and other requirements.

      But then again, it’s nice, because all I need to make sure Microsoft doesn’t secretly update my Win10 machine in the night to Win11 is to turn off the TPM in the BIOS.

      • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Rufus has that option, I’ve used it myself to update to Win11 because I didn’t have a motherboard with TPM at the time.
        Also wanna mention, the reason I updated was mostly because I thought Win10 was kinda ugly and I think Win11 was a huge update in that regard and also because of security reasons, since Win10 won’t receive any more updates in the near future. At the end of the day, I can count on one hand how often I boot Windows in a year (I almost exclusively use Linux), so I don’t really care about all the Win11 bullshit anyway.

      • john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net
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        7 days ago

        You can bypass the requirements since yeah, they were always artificial.

        I think bypassing these checks would eventually render your PC vulnerable? for example, bitlocker support being void for computers that relies on TPM 2.0

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          7 days ago

          There is no home-user need to run bitlocker. There’s dozens of alternatives, that do not rely on TPM, that are just as effective, and that you really should be using anyways since they aren’t controlled by M$.

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        7 days ago

        But then you won’t receive any updates if you use unsupported hardware to run Win 11

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      7 days ago

      Nope, they wont. Micro$oft only cares money rather than basic OS for everyday and professional tasks

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        7 days ago

        They’ve been adding spyware and ads into W10 so it’s not the money. They could easily add all W11 ads/spyware into 10 with an update. Older CPUs have several hardware vulnerabilities unrelated to the TPU required by W11.

        IMO, they should add a startup message listing the hardware vulnerabilities of the installed CPU and leave it up to the customer.