I wish Roblox would stop having their fight with Linux and I just convert my kids over.
They absolutely don't need Windows for anything but Roblox at the moment.
Otoh, Roblox is evil and you could just use the switch to Linux to be like, "oh no, I guess we can't have Roblox anymore!"
My home is more of a democracy than a dictatorship. I could of course forbid them from playing, impose whatever sanctions, But they have fun doing it and they have a bunch of real life friends that join them.
I mean, the real danger is they shove out an update that straight up breaks on your PC, as in won't boot even in safe mode because it does something with the TPM, and it'll be your own fault for deliberately circumventing the requirements.
Non-geeky people will generally run things until they actually stop working completely. They don't care what OS it runs as long as it runs all their shit.
Non-geeky people will generally run things until they actually stop working completely.
Geeky people, on the other hand, may either adopt a new OS while it's still half-baked, or jump through hoops to keep an old one running long past the point where a non-geeky person would have given up. Some of us do both, just for the lulz. Windows 11 on unsupported systems offers a new and exciting(?) way to scratch the same "can I make this work, just for the hell of it?" itch.
TFW you continue fucking around with Windows rather than learn Linux
One thing doesn't exclude the other.
I ended up taking my unsupported computer and turned it into an Unraid server. Bought some refurb enterprise drives on eBay to get it set up, and now I have an awesome home media server/NAS.
Why should I be curious about unraid (I have a case and a bunch of drives btw)?
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As of 15 min ago, my dad has decided to install windows 11 on his 12 year old home pc. Oh boy.
I'm running Windows 11 on a 12 year old X79 platform. Runs just fine.
But it was definitely top of the line in its day and 48GB of RAM keeps any system relatively snappy.
It's an i5-2430m powered AIO PC with a HDD and 8 gb of ram (its only saving grace). It's fine for what my dad uses it for, which is largely web browsing for work and excel.
Omg, I wonder if I'd splurge on a ram stick or an ssd (if I couldn't do both for some heavy economical reason).
Just FYI I made an el cheapo "win-game-box" with an old dell and wasn't able to install w10 on the ssd so I put it on a hard drive. So slow I felt I went back in time to 2005. Figured out how to reset win10 with a specific dell iso and was able to put it on the ssd -> totally okay/snappy pc.
Yeah Win11 will probably be a noticeable performance hit on that. Especially Explorer which they made dog slow when adding tabs and the new context menu.
The Office apps and browser will probably be about the same.
That workaround for your bi-yearly feature update on an unsupported PC is more complicated than installing Linux.
There, I said the bad word.
ITT: People who talk about Linux (as if that was the subject) because they just can't accept that some people actually need or want to use Windows and might find articles like this one useful.
Its part of their personality.
They remind me of my devout jehovah witness neighbor who's been doorknocking and dropping flyers in my mailbox for 20+ years to remind me I'm going to burn if I don't convert.
I think a lot of people have switched to Linux and realized it was just a lot better, myself included. It took me a bit to let the differences soak in, just like when I got my first smart phone but after a bit of using it and trying things out you realize you should have done it a long time ago
If you need Windows, don’t run it on hardware that doesn’t support Windows 11. If you need it, do it the right way, so you can count on it working.
Now, what do you do with your old hardware? There are plenty of good ideas in the comments here.
ITT: Stockholm Syndrome victims defending the abusive relationship they have with their OS.
Newsflash, honey: she doesn't respect you; she only wants to exploit you. It's time to break up!
Yes because never ever an user had abused their OS.
Newsflash honey: it's a fucking tool, it doesn't have feelings. It's your own choice to use it or not.
Man fuck these half baked parasocial analogies.
That's right: it is a fucking tool, which means nothing the user does to it or with it could possibly count as "abuse" by the user. An OS is supposed to exist to do exactly the computer owner's bidding; no more, no less.
But Microsoft certainly doesn't see it that way. Instead, Windows exists to do Microsoft' bidding, computer owner's rights be damned. It's Microsoft that's abusing you, by whoring you out to advertisers and subverting your property against you, when you use Windows.
Bro, it's true you can't disable certain things, but you can certainly break it. I can still use a previous version and not update. I can still pirate ltsc. I can remove or install any bullshit I want. It takes the same fucking time when configuring your Linux distro of choice, unattended or not.
I don't give a fuck what Microsoft thinks. I can still break their os to do what I want.
You're too self absorbed in Linux good windows bad.
Sure, you can work around Microsoft's intentional sabotage, in the same way that you can make excuses about "falling down stairs" when friends ask about the black eyes your abusive spouse gave you. But you shouldn't have to.
Oh and...
It takes the same fucking time when configuring your Linux distro of choice, unattended or not.
...no it fucking doesn't, BTW. (At least not unless you intentionally choose to use a 'difficult' distro like Arch or Gentoo.)
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