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Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks agoIt’s not about the speed - the minimum requirements for Win 11 are a 1Ghz dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM- it’s because of the processor generation. Not sure if there’s been an official explanation, but the going consensus is that they aren’t going to officially support anything that is susceptible to Meltdown or Spectre.
Moorshou@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
SSE4.2 specifically, POPCNT is part of that. It was introduced in 2008, while the previous requirement for Win 10, Win 8, and in Win 7 after a 2018 update has been SSE2 from 2000. So Windows 11 bumps the oldest hardware requirement from 18 years down to 16/17 years.
FWIW, Linux Mint 20 doesn’t have 32-bit builds so it isn’t compatible with processors that don’t support x86-64, and the first Intel processor to support that is from 2004.
Rose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are already precedents of software (the Riot games) and the OS itself refusing to work if the requirements are bypassed, so it’s a very risky move that nobody should choose for their main OS.