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Minimum requirements don't work like that. If you buy a TV that requires minimum temperature of 40°F, and you find that yours work at 25°F, that doesn't mean t

Minimum requirements don't work like that. If you buy a TV that requires minimum temperature of 40°F, and you find that yours work at 25°F, that doesn't mean the manufacturer was lying.

josephcsible 4y ago
Different copies of the same software don't have random variations like different pieces of the same hardware do.
- yongjik 4y ago
  Considering how many different combinations of PC components and applications Windows is expected to support, you might as well call it random variation.
- wtallis 4y ago
  The TV analogy isn't really about random variation between devices. Running a device way outside its specified temperature range may appear to work fine at first but lead to premature failure or subtle problems that aren't as easy for an end user to spot. By analogy, coercing Windows 11 to boot on unsupported hardware may work fine at the moment (for the subset of features you care about enough to test), but Microsoft makes no commitment that it will continue to run that well in the future. They may introduce new features that do not function on your unsupported hardware, or they may drop workarounds for known bugs or security vulnerabilities in your hardware. Or maybe Windows 11 will continue to work fine on that hardware for years to come, but Microsoft doesn't want to put any QA effort into guaranteeing that.
  - josephcsible 4y ago
    > Running a device way outside its specified temperature range may appear to work fine at first but lead to premature failure or subtle problems that aren't as easy for an end user to spot. The point was that operating hardware outside of its limits might work for me but not for you, and it might suddenly break for seemingly no reason later. But with software, if I can run Windows 11 without a TPM, then you'll definitely be able to, and there's nothing to wear out or change over time that could break that other than an update.

Minimum requirements don't work like that. If you buy a TV that requires minimum temperature of 40°F, and you find that yours work at 25°F, that doesn't mean the manufacturer was lying.

josephcsible 4y ago

Different copies of the same software don't have random variations like different pieces of the same hardware do.

yongjik 4y ago
Considering how many different combinations of PC components and applications Windows is expected to support, you might as well call it random variation.
wtallis 4y ago
The TV analogy isn't really about random variation between devices. Running a device way outside its specified temperature range may appear to work fine at first but lead to premature failure or subtle problems that aren't as easy for an end user to spot. By analogy, coercing Windows 11 to boot on unsupported hardware may work fine at the moment (for the subset of features you care about enough to test), but Microsoft makes no commitment that it will continue to run that well in the future. They may introduce new features that do not function on your unsupported hardware, or they may drop workarounds for known bugs or security vulnerabilities in your hardware. Or maybe Windows 11 will continue to work fine on that hardware for years to come, but Microsoft doesn't want to put any QA effort into guaranteeing that.
- josephcsible 4y ago
  > Running a device way outside its specified temperature range may appear to work fine at first but lead to premature failure or subtle problems that aren't as easy for an end user to spot. The point was that operating hardware outside of its limits might work for me but not for you, and it might suddenly break for seemingly no reason later. But with software, if I can run Windows 11 without a TPM, then you'll definitely be able to, and there's nothing to wear out or change over time that could break that other than an update.