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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: (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 years ago by ajayiyer@mastodon.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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:

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

@nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

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[-] utubas@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] Menteros@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago

Sysadmin noises

[-] brakenium@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

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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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

1 it is.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

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

https://reactos.org/

[-] joyvio@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 years ago

Us low spec gamers cannot afford losing at least 10 fps in some games, so it seems we're tied to win 10 for the time being.

[-] dan@upvote.au 4 points 2 years ago

There's still around two more years of support for Windows 10. By that time, it shouldn't be too expensive to upgrade some components to some second-hand ones that perform better than your current ones.

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago

Does the bypass not still work?

[-] cobra89@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years 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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