And here I am with windows 11 compatible hardware refusing that upgrade. I’m primarily in Linux on my desktop these days, but it dual boots into windows 10.
The year of the Linux Desktop is coming!!!
Soonish™
😂
I guess it’s a good thing I am switching to Linux.
Mint. There you forgot to finish your sentence.
I’m installing Mint! I also had an eye on EndeavourOS, but I’m thinking I can first switch to mint and once I have some time in it switch to the more involved EndeavourOS tweaking process.
The thing that most grabs me about mint is the polish and refinement, its a no frills shit just works vibe. For instance install bazzite or most other distros even silverblue etc. The program names are wacky and navigation isn’t intuituve as much. Not to say those are bad but mint seems easily labelled. Thought out and navigatable. Having almost everything you need pre installed with next to zero bullshit.
Cinnamon seems the best. I just booted up XFCE yesterday. Good but not cinnamon good. Games worked on my all AMD system out of the box. No tweaks needed for 98 percent of games. It’s been so smooth that half my family has joined. Due to Windows upgrade bullshit nobody has looked back. Windows gets used maybe once in 6 months to go play multiplayer games. Even then I could easily ditch it. Never going back.
Don’t say, do.
How is this cracking down? The article says the documentation for the registry edits have been removed and an automated approach of removing restrictions is now a false positive for windows defender.
I’m assuming the registry edits still work (article doesn’t say) in which case where am I meant to point my outrage?
Now if they block windows 11 from running and the registry entries do nothing, that would be a worthy news article.
While this article is about upgrading to Win11, not necessarily a clean install, I found the best way to bypass the requirements is to make an autounnatend with Schneegans.de . Make a Win11 installation USB, generate an autounnatend to bypass the requirements, remove bloat, allow offline install (local account instead of Microsoft account), and a couple other little tweaks like dark mode etc. Drop the xml on the root of the flash drive, and boom.
Or… You know… Install Linux.
Rufus can do this too
The update claims that Windows Defender now identifies the app as potential malware. Flyby11 is a popular third-party tool that allows people to dodge the TPM 2.0 requirement and install Windows 11 on any machine, so Defender suddenly taking a dislike for the app does raise a few eyebrows.
Well, it was only a matter of time until MS abuses their malware scanner for software they don’t like.
This is just going to push people who aren’t locked into Windows, away from Windows, and Linux is making a pretty good argument for itself as a viable alternative atm, particularly for gaming.
Although another option would be to virtualize Windows on a Linux host too, that’s what I’m doing right now /w Win10 LTSC for general apps that aren’t entirely WINE-friendly, and then Win8.1 for some older games that aren’t entirely WINE-friendly, and the Win8.1 VM has my R9 270 being passed through to it over vfio-pci for graphics for that reason.
The Win10 VM is using VirtIO paravirtualized graphics because its intended use case doesn’t need anything more than basic acceleration as it was spun up mainly for running CUETools on for the things that app can’t do in Mono, eg. like transcoding FLAC images to Vorbis or Opus.
As for gaming beyond the few edge cases that don’t run well in WINE that are due to just being old code, I don’t play anything that has an anticheat so 99% of my gaming is easily doable in Proton.
This isn’t the story. All that’s changed is that a 3rd party script is being flagged my Defender as malicious. You can still update unsupported machines like always.
Why do they care? Don’t they want the tiny market share of Windows 11 to go up?
Well if you buy say a new laptop it will come with an OEM license so they make a sale unlike if you use your old windows 7/8/10 license on your unsuported laptop
Your argument is flawed. The situation is using Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. So the sale you are talking about has already happened which invalidates your point
I’m assuming you simply misread the question
Windows 7/8/10 are irrelevant as that’s an entirely different situation
When you get a new laptop it comes with Windows (except in very rare exceptions). So microsoft collects another sale.
All the other windows versions are very important to my argument as you can use old 7/8/10 licenses to activate Win 11.
to activate Win 11.
You didn’t include this in your argument that’s why it was flawed
They don’t care about home users buying licenses. That’s probably less than 1% of license sales. As long as businesses are buying it they’re happy. You can activate Windows with a github script. Microsoft would have fixed that vulnerability if they really cared.
I don’t know much about business but I think that that is what they think that they’re doing….
I was really considering getting a new laptop and now I want it to be a Debian laptop. :^
I wish Debian’s installer didn’t suck. I want to be able to use btrfs without manually partitioning. I know how to manually partition in Calamarus or whatever it’s called but Debian’s installer confused the shit out of me. Void Linux also had a more straightforward installer. Aside from that, Debian is great.
How do you choose a Linux OS?
Personal preference really but Debian is pretty much just Ubuntu without the bloat. You can also try a lot of them on a live disk without installing (Mint is a good option too).
I am using Linux for work anyway and used Windoof just for gaming. I have heard good things about gaming on Linux recently, so that’s a good incentive to make the full switch.
And here I am trying NOT to install on my PC.
