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I agree that windows should not stop supporting previous versions of windows. Especially when going from windows 10 to 11 wasn’t at all that big of a change. They very easily could have waited longer before making windows 11 the standard or even windows 11 period because it was not that big of a change.

Unfortunately they did not do anything illegal in my opinion but we’ll have to see how this plays out I guess.

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winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
And windows 10 will be the last windows. Did everyone forget that??

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- HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I remember!
  
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  - NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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    samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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- Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  If you don’t switch on SecureBoot, that can still be the truth.
  
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  - rami@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Can you tell me more about what secure boot does in this correct? (Assuming this isn’t a joke)
    
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    Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If you don’t enable SecureBoot then you can’t install Win 11.
    
    As a bonus, you won’t be able to install the latest Call of Duty or Battlefield titles either.
    
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- 64bitrowlet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I mean I would rather use linux if I could get away with it. Unfortunately I have a lot of engineering programs on my pc that I know for a fact would definitely not run on linux which sucks I guess since I am stuck with windows. I thought about dual booting my pc but then immediately realized that is problematic XD.
  
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  - Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You can try to put the engineering programs in dedicated snapshotted windows VMs and basically time-capsule them as a working tool forever that never changes and works on any machine.
    
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    64bitrowlet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Your right but that would have massive performance issues. I could definitely do that and that is not a bad idea but I also have a steam deck now for most linux things I do but yes you are right.
    
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  - sleen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You can dual boot using separate drives. This has worked for me without any issues and I routinely use solidworks.
    
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    64bitrowlet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Stupid question. How did you do that without having the drives interfere with windows? When I have done that it massively screw up my windows boot somehow and it made everything weird. Basically I had to uninstall it because it was massively grating on my nerves what it was doing to my os. Basically it changed the time and date to a few decades in the future and I could not get around to fixing it. It also caused issues where I couldn’t access certain sites online because of the issues I was having with my pc and the fact the date was so far in the future. Thanks!
    
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FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The issue isn’t so much about the actual OS change, as it is about their dumb forced requirement of a TPM. A lot of perfectly fine PC’s don’t have one or don’t have it enabled, as it can cause headaches. If they dropped that requirement, a lot fewer people would care about the switch.

I’ve got an ROG B550E motherboard in my PC, built in July 2021. It’s perfectly fine, perfectly capable. Big ‘ole 3090 in it, plenty of ram… I have zero need to upgrade right now.

It has a firmware TPM option, but that involves doing stuff like updating the bios, configuring some stuff and runs the risk of potentially breaking something. Now, I’m willing to give that a go if push comes to shove, but your average consumer just doesn’t want to deal with that hassle.

Which means that a lot of folks are going to be running an unsupported OS or buying new PC’s when the old ones are still more than capable. You can guess what I think will happen…

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- 64bitrowlet@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Ah that makes sense. I didn’t know what TPM was until today. Surprised that wasn’t in the details in the new article to be honest. Or maybe it was but because I didn’t know what TPM is I didn’t make sense of it.
  
  Microsoft Windows is going to face a challenge in the future with Linux because eventually it will be a bigger thing than Windows and if Windows is unable to change their model Microsoft will not be able to do anything about it. Hence why when Microsoft over a decade ago was faced with the challenge that they were a monopoly and instead of them giving half their stock to Linux, they gave it to Apple so that Apple would compete with Microsoft and they knew they had beaten them once in competition and they can more than easily do it again. Where as with Linux it would be too hard. Especially with the open source capabilities Linux has making it very hard to compete with once it gets too big.
  
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  - FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If I can’t get my PC on 11 without hassle, I’m likely to switch to Linux anyway. I’ve beenhearing great things about Linux Mint for gaming. And I’ve owned a Steam Deck since release, so gaming on a Linux system really doesn’t scare me anymore.
    
    And with the current trend of people wanting to take a but more control back from big tech, Microsoft very well might permanently lose customers to Linux. And once they make that switch, they’re not likely to switch back.
    
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    64bitrowlet@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Nice! I will probably do that same but with steamos instead. Good luck!
    
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