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[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hot take from an IT guy: save your important data, make a plain vanilla W11 boot USB (nothing fancy, no Rufus tricks), wipe your hard drive to zeroes, and install W11 like normal. I've reimaged a ton of older PCs and literally never seen it not work. My 10 year old Optiplex, supposedly ineligible for W11, runs W11 just fine.

Microsoft might someday break it, sure. That's not new. Microsoft products were always, in practice, available to us at Microsoft's pleasure. This is the same company that allows massgrave to exist on github because they'd rather we pirate MS Office than allow LibreOffice any oxygen. We'll probably be fine.

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[-] griD@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

DoN't YOu gUyS hAvE TPM? Hilarious.

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[-] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

So, uh... You gonna trade me a better machine for my current one, Microsoft?

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[-] LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 weeks ago

Lots of suggestions here. Here is mine peppermint OS. Simple and doesnt brake (debian based)

[-] deadkennedy@lemm.ee -1 points 3 weeks ago

Just in case anyone reading doenst know - the free tool Rufus can write a Win 11 ISO to your usb drive md remove all the silly soft requirements.

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