With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be these computers’ only secure hope, what do you think?
Microsoft: Arbitrarily increases the system requirements for Windows 11 even though it runs perfectly fine on older pcs just to get people to buy new computers
Also Microsoft: Why’s there so much waste??
I found it absolutely amazing they claim my pretty decent laptop from 2016 can’t run Windows 11. Laptops haven’t gotten that much better since then. Also, supposing it actually couldn’t, it’s a fucking operating system. It should be doing everything it can to stay out of the way. What kind of bloated monstrosity is Windows 11 that my laptop can’t run it?
It’s the trusted platform module which I know almost nothing about but I’m sure is fucking stupid. My monster of a desktop from 2018 also can’t run win11, and the only reason is my cpu is missing the tpm that it requires.
Two registry keys. Change those and now it runs windows 11.
They just want more control over your computer, so they want your hardware that supports the latest tpm.
Better to run linux of course, but no reason you can’t run 11 if you want.
When has MS indicated they care about waste in the least?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/compliance/environmental-compliance#:~:text=Waste commitment,operations%2C products%2C and packaging.
This is a marketing page that any big company has a version of. I meant by action, not lip service
There is a link immediately over the headline in the url I shared. Read the report. I used to sell green asset disposition of electronics. It’s been an industry for a long time. It makes a difference. See what you want to see man. I can intro you to people in that business if you’d like to pick their brains. I don’t know who owns this at Microsoft but I can ask contacts there, if you’d like me to help get you an intro.
As I understand it, it wasn’t arbitrary. Microsoft has wanted to require TPMs for two decades at this point. Once there’s high enough adoption they can roll out their version of trusted computing.
TPM modules are not new, it’s TPM 2.0 that got problematic.
If you run Windows 10, chances are you have TPM 1.4, which is perfectly fine, but Microsoft wants moar
It wasn’t just TPM though was it? I’d understand if it was, however my motherboard supports TPM modules but the CPU is apparently too outdated to run it, so even though I have one installed I technically can’t run Windows 11 - even though I am and it runs fine.