• 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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      7 days ago

      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

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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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$.

    • Tux@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 days ago

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