Or simply use an easy workaround to disable the tpm check and set up an offline account. I literally have win11 running on an old T460.
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Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Another way to say this is the master race are about to upgrade their hardware
Bratwurstboy@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 months ago
IMALlama@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Anything you need to do beyond Rufus or the like for installation? How did activation, auto updates, etc work?
Bratwurstboy@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 months ago
No, you don’t need anything else. Activation works the same if you log into your ms account or you can simply use massgrave.dev .
bruhduh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Or upgrade to OS that gaben chosen
Plopp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If only it ran the software and hardware I use…
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Curious what you’re using. Ms office kinda sucked but LibreOffice works incredibly well, and Adobe products last I tried (years ago) sucked. But gimp and DaVinci resolve work great. Most of my games run absolutely fine. For everything else you just need a web browser and those have worked great always.
Plopp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah office products and vide editors have Linux alternatives, but to me the main offenders are Native Instruments Maschine (proprietary USB controller that doesn’t work in Linux + software that doesn’t work in Linux) and DTP software like Affinity Publisher or Adobe Indesign that have no Linux equivalent.
I’m lookin into running those things in a Windows KVM in Linux though but it’s quite the project.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wine or emulation? When I had to use Windows for work I used WSL to run my tooling and didn’t notice any performance degradation. Does it apply too vice versa?
Although I’m with you on the hardware side. Because I have an Nvidia card my Linux install has been relegated for personal projects only. I already have a workstation supplied by my employer for work.
Plopp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sadly the things I need don’t work in Wine, Proton etc. I’m looking into running a Windows KVM with hardware pass through, but it’s quite the project, and requires a second GPU that I don’t have.