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Microsoft literally chose to make Windows 11 refuse to install on the majority of PCs [1], so that's hardly surprising. They also chose to make one of the most
by mkl 3y ago
Microsoft literally chose to make Windows 11 refuse to install on the majority of PCs [1], so that's hardly surprising. They also chose to make one of the most fundamental interface elements, the Start menu, worse in every way.
There are some nice features too, and I'd probably upgrade another PC or two if they would let me.
[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3657628/more-than-half-of-pcs-cant-upgrade-to-windows-11-report.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3657628/more-than-half...
- eviks 3y agoWhich features seem nice to you?
- mkl 3y agoGood touch gestures for window and desktop manipulation, multiple desktops easier and better, tabs supported in more places (e.g. File Explorer and Notepad), better behaviour when connecting and disconnecting external monitors, some nice window positioning, better WSL integration, etc. Nothing huge, but lots of little improvements.
- wredue 3y agoThe monitors is actually broken for me. Windows disconnects my monitor even for something as small as alt-tabbing from a fullscreen game and refuses to reconnect it till I unplug the monitor and plug it back in.
- Dayshine 3y agoProper HDR support. What's the point of fancy OLED screens when you can't use them?
- mysterydip 3y agoI was going to say, if their goal was to escape the shadow of Windows 10 instead of doubling down on it, they did a poor job.
- Aardwolf 3y agoApparently the thing making it to refuse to install is "TPM 2.0". I'm not a Windows user but a Linux user, and this simply makes me wonder: will TPM 2.0 in any way make PC hardware impossible to install Linux on? I remember there was a windows TPM related thing that would lock in the hardware to only boot windows, is this it?
- fuzzy2 3y agoNo, that was the Secure Boot scare. TPM is unrelated to that particular matter, though it can interact with Secure Boot (as part of Measured Boot). Both technologies apply to any operating system and provide important software security benefits.
- SSLy 3y agoYou’re thinking of secure boot, tpm is wholly unrelated.
- askonomm 3y agoAs far as I know, TPM can be disabled in the BIOS. Perhaps not on every motherboard, but I have yet to encounter one like that.
- steve1977 3y agoI run Linux fine on systems with TPM 2.0 (with Secure Boot enabled).
- cesarb 3y agoThe TPM 2.0 scare was a different one: that websites would start requiring the use of TPM 2.0 to prove that you're running unmodified Windows, which would make Linux users unable to access these websites (and even running legitimate Windows on a virtual machine wouldn't be enough, these websites would accept only Windows running directly on the bare hardware). That is, the use of TPM 2.0 would not lock the hardware to only boot Windows (it's SecureBoot that would do that, once Microsoft stops signing Linux bootloaders and starts requiring that OEMs forbid disabling it, like they already did for ARM laptops), but the use of TPM 2.0 would lock Linux users out of important services, in practice forcing them to boot Windows.
- jasoneckert 3y agoWindows 11 doesn't actually need a TPM or secure boot functionality to run at all, which is why Microsoft introduced an exemption commonly used in lab/school environments. When you get the “This PC can’t run Windows 11” error message during installation: -Press Shift+F10 to open a command prompt and run regedit.exe to launch the Registry Editor. -Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup -Right-click on the Setup key in the left pane and choose New -> Key. Call this key LabConfig. -Right-click the LabConfig key in the left pane and choose New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value. Call this value BypassTPMCheck. -Right-click the LabConfig key in the left pane and choose New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value. Call this value BypassSecureBootCheck. -Double-click both the BypassTPMCheck and BypassSecureBootCheck values and change the Value data from 0 to 1. -Close the Registry Editor and command prompt windows. -At the Windows setup screen with the error message, press the back button in the upper left and then click Next to continue installation normally. After installation, the Windows Security Center will display a warning indicating that your system doesn't have a TPM, but you can choose "Dismiss" and you'll get a green validation checkmark next to that section from that point onwards.