Submitted 5 days ago by neme@lemm.ee to windows@sopuli.xyz
Unless I’m reading this wrong, it’s all kind of moot.
Devices with these CPUs may not be manufactured with Windows 11 pre-installed and may only be upgraded to Windows 11 by a customer.
They won’t sell OEM licenses for chips that haven’t been manufactured for a few years. Users can still update themselves, and retail licenses appear to be unaffected.
According to the PC health check program my 10th gen laptop is able to upgrade to Windows 11. So either that system hasn’t been updated, or this is just for newly manufactured PCs.
Pssssss! Let them hate Microsoft. It never really got out of fashion. I am a pro at both systems, so I couldn’t care less and always use the best tool for the job at hand.
They know that killing support early makes it easier for people to just buy new hardware, which likely has new windows purchased/included. More money, less effort. And since most environments are locked into the platform, no one gets away.
I’m already moving a lot of hardware to Linux, but I’ll be damned if I give MS any more money.
Linux Mint has been a massive upgrade over Windows 10/11 for me. It also still has support for my hardware. Running a 4770k Haswell processor from Intel. Just got forced into buying a new gpu in the form of an RX 6650 from AMD. All together for gaming and general purpose usage Linux is effectively on par with Windows now. Steam have done a lot of work for gamers to make it easier to game on non-windows platforms.
This dumb shit made me go Linux. And I love it so much I’d go Linux for my gaming system if it weren’t so fucking dependant on Windows for gaming. And no, I don’t want to fiddle with Proton layer and deal with bullshit, I just want to play games. But for everything else, I love Linux. Even fell in love with GNOME even though I hated it in the past and was the KDE guy.
The laptop that Windows deems too old running Ryzen 2500U with 8GB RAM and Crucial M.2 SSD does everything in a snap. It’s still a damn 4 core 8 threads CPU. For multimedia and browsing it’s an overkill, but killed off because bullshit corporate reasons. Fuck you Microsoft.
I was radicalized into Linux when my Less-than-a-year-old Chromebook told me I couldn’t update it. I was like “What do you mean you can’t update, I own you.” Maybe I’m old enough to remember when computers weren’t so fucking sassy. I now own four repurposed laptops, a NUC, and a desktop computer all running a flavor of Arch (and one with Debian, as a lil treat).
Thankfully gaming for me is easy; rogue-likes tend to be Linux optimized.
I mostly play online very old games that are hard to run on modern Windows as is and online ones that fon’t like Linux because of anti cheat.
Meanwhile Linux still support Sega Dreamcast’s SuperH SH4, as well as m68k processors from 1979.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 days ago
Five years of software support from Intel is pathetic. This can’t be good for the platform.
assembly@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Just realized my 10400 is on the list there. That’s not good. Not sure what they’re expecting from folk but I’m not buying a new windows PC so my options are Linux (probably) and a Mac laptop for my DAW as Linux plugin support is limited
BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I am currently going through my Steam library to find if there are any show stoppers for a complete switch to Linux and Proton. So far everything works fine so I am confident I can ditch Windows soon.
corroded@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Where did you see that this is an issue with Intel not supporting drivers? Sounds very much to me like Microsoft is introducing an artifical limitation; this is solely on them.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 days ago
From the comments, there are links to Intel pages dropping/limiting support for this only vaguely older hardware.
With that said, for the consumer, it doesn’t matter who is at fault. It makes Windows on Intel a worse product.