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 This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses.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?
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 I’d understand if it was, however my motherboard supports TPM modules but the CPU is apparently too outdated to run it, so even though I have one installed I technically can’t run Windows 11 - even though I am and it runs fine.