PCs that can’t run Windows 11 are valuable to people who don’t want to wake up one morning and find they’ve been upgraded against their will.
Just run windows 3.1 dual booted with Linux mint. Easily the most rational decision.
Humm, I installed Windows 11 on a really old Dell laptop (clean install). I’m sure it was not HW supported but it installed fine. I may have had to click something like, " Yeah I know it doesn’t meet the specs"; but otherwise fine.
No, I don’t like Windows but it’s what my partner needed at the time.
This isn’t news, it’s just the standard notice that Microsoft isn’t going to spend time making their new shiny OS work on 10+ year old hardware.
FTFY
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Windows isn’t even that good. The OS is kind of a huge mess. It has two unfortunate advantages though: it’s the default on many devices, and (because of that) software availability is best. I wish it wasn’t the case.
I’ll just keep running Windows 10.
After about 10 hours of reading and video watching, it seems pretty unanimous that linux mint with cinnamon is the easiest one to use and everything else is hobbyist stuff.
Decent choice, but I massively disagree with the last 6 words
Right? The easiest one is the hobbyist stuff, everything else is srs bsns.
My computer can’t upgrade to Win11 and I am buying a new one, but I’m putting Linux on it.
I have parts on the way to build a new PC. Believe it or not, also Linux.
My computer can upgrade to win11. I clearly remember the vendor stating that when I bought it last year.
I’ll continue with linux, though.
Mine too. I tried 11 and went back to 10. Honestly, only thing keeping me on Windows currently is my plex*arr servers. Guess I have a year to figure out docker.
I just would like to point out that you would not be using Windows 10 on or past Oct 2025. You have exactly one year to move on.
As soon as it reached end of life you know it will immediately be a huge target. Don’t let personal preference put you at risk.
One more year of dual-booting should be plenty of time to ween off the Windows teat.
looks at self
How many other ways are my personal preferences putting me at risk?
They said that about XP too, but I never heard of anyone getting massively pwned after support stopped.
I hope you are joking…
BlizzardMicrosuck: “Don’t you all have bank accounts?”Considering I have Logitech devices that don’t even work on Win11 without first disabling a bunch of security settings…why bother? When some of your major vendors don’t have drivers that work on win11 fully you might want to help them out first before forcing people onto that OS.
Nope, the vendors see that as a win too. Go buy new hardware. Stop being a poor.
If one’s hardware is 10+ years old, I don’t think upgrading to the latest OS is likely high on their list of priorities.
just give contractors the option to sell their pcs without your bloatware for a hundred bucks cheaper or something
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