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[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

For people who still need Windows:

I have a 10-year-old Surface Pro 4 and I was able to freely upgrade to Windows 11 and it works fine. It wasn't technically supported but I enabled preview builds or something like that (I think I had to enable the Insider program) and it showed up as a Windows Update. I don't know if this is applicable to all PCs that don't support Win 11, but surely it's applicable to some of them that Windows says don't support Win 11.

[–] HunterLF@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

Yes, it's known that it is possible to do that, but Windows 11 has TPU 2.0 requirements for a reason. As they say, it's for security. In my opinion, if you have to jump through so many hoops and loops to use a damn OS, just to use it as a home desktop or to use old tech, just move to Linux. You have Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora KDE, Steam OS (not yet fully out), and many more. For a beginner who came from Windoes, I recommend Linux Mint. If you already have a Steam deck, for example, I recommend Bazzite (it's non-imutable) or Fedora KDE Plasma.

Edit: Sorry if I came out harsh, I didn't mean to sound like that, I just feel frustrated at how shit Windoes has turned in too

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago
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[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I said from the beginning that the tpm 2.0 requirement was a way to make people buy new pc's. Good news for me who wants a laptop upgrade.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Or get a new laptop and switch to Linux!

[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 hours ago

That's what I'm doing. Framework for the win

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm already using linux, but my laptop is an older dell with a 5th? Gen i5 dual core. Still works fine, but i had to jankily push down on the keyboard ribbon cable with a piece of cardboard, still has sata ssd, screen could be nicer, bezels are an inch wide, etc. This an oportunity to get an uograde if companies are going to dump perfectly good hardware.

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[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ltsc iot win10 is supported for years to come 🏴‍☠️

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[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 25 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

What a coincidence - I stopped supporting it too!

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 16 points 9 hours ago

You should have thrown Windows away at the beginning of the century.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world -3 points 3 hours ago

i like how you made up a quote from the post.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 95 points 13 hours ago (9 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

I'm trying but the girlfriend refuses. She watches YouTube on the TV and does everything else on her phone; literally only uses the laptop to play The Sims 4 (which her 1080ti can handle just fine), yet she's convinced that she will need a brand new gaming machine with a 4090/5090 as soon as Microsoft dumps WIn10. She's afraid that she'll completely break the OS if she switches to Linux. (Which is plausible, though unlikely.

I'm hoping she'll change her mind as soon as she realizes just how much more GPUs cost these days, especially mobile ones.

[–] vii@programming.dev 18 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Create a live USB stick and demonstrate it to her, without deleting Windows. Bonus points if you rice the fuck out of it with some kawaii shit for your GF and make Sims 4 work with Wine.

[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Wine need not apply. That's old school. Sims 4 works great in proton. Basically just install steam and the rest is handled.

Better yet, install bazzite as your distro, gaming works out of the box.

[–] CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Proton is based on Wine, when people say Wine in a gaming context, there's a decent chance they just mean Proton. Also there's absolutely no need for gaming distros in this situation, gaming works out of the box on any (semi-normal) distro, the most you'll have to do is flick a switch in Steam.

Edit: Or in this case with the Sims install Lutris I guess, since it's an EA game, but that also isn't much more difficult

[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's fair, I'm a bit uninformed on wine and proton's roots. However I'd argue that for someone like OPs girlfriend, a somewhat-immutable atomic based distro like bazzite might be better. Especially if it's only used for gaming and YouTube 🤷‍♂️

But different strokes for different folks, so perhaps they'd be better off just installing steam on their distro of choice 👍

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

if you try giving someone used to windows an immutable distro they will think that something is wrong or things are too confusing.

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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Install win 10 LTSC

[–] unlearned0653@startrek.website 7 points 8 hours ago

Use an immutable distro so even if she breaks it it's easily fixed

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[–] Darkmoon_UK@lemm.ee 121 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (27 children)

Weird hill to die on perhaps; but I'll never forgive Microsoft for arbitrarily deciding to not support my Core i7 6700K 4Ghz CPU on Windows 11.

Simply because: I cannot find a single actual technical reason why it wouldn't be compatible (yes, my mobo also has TPM). It's even higher specced than many other 'supported' chips.

MS apparently just decided I hadn't spent enough money lately. Well now I won't - on your products - ever again, while this i7 will continue to run Win 10 for games and Linux for all else.

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

In the same boat with the same CPU. The beast is running Cyberpunk 2077 fairly well at 1440p with a DLSS/ray tracing card but it can't run Windows 11 🙄🙄🙄

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

assuming you use steam, see which of your favorite games run with proton compatability layer and which absolutely require windows. You may be suprised.

[–] sporkler@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

I run everything on steam with proton that I did on my windows PC, nothing was left behind. If you 'add a game' from outside steam, you can run the installer and then change the game location to the executable. Ubuntu or Ubuntu mate are what I install on everything. Recommend.

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