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Gentle reminder to everyone that support for #windows10 ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

  1. Continue on Win 10 but with higher security risks.
  2. Buy new and expensive hardware that supports Win11.
  3. Try a beginner friendly #Linux distro like #linuxmint. It only takes about two months to acclimate.

@nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I expect a jump in Linux users, which is of course great news. Albeit in time I expect even more Tech companies to get into the space too, which is not optimal. As I expect them to corrupt a lot of open source projects.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That is so misleading, when you can just disable the TPM 2.0 requirements with a single click in Rufus

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

CLickbait bullshit and everyone that upvoted is responsible. This is stupid, you can do better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sysadmin noises

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Last I checked windows 11 can be installed without TPM support. I think rufus even has a simple checkbox for it and Chris Titus's winutil can modify an ISO to do the sams

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Given the break-neck pace of development, I am sure the ReactOS folks will be ready.

https://reactos.org/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does the bypass not still work?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does, you can manually install windows 11 even without the hardware "requirements"

Everyone is fear mongering over this. It's the same shit how windows 10 didn't officially support a bunch of systems but you could install it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Currently running a desktop on W11 on "unsupported hardware". Even managed to get it onto a 15 year old machine running a first gen i7 920 and not even a hint of a TPM module as an experiment and it worked perfectly fine.

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