I done the upgrade check and it said that my Ryzen setup didn’t have TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot. I looked things up online and it said I could turn them on in the EUFI - so i did. I thought they were on already.
But turning on secure boot stopped my current windows install being recognized. So I had to reinstall windows. Not a big loss though as I don’t keep data on that drive and it only has MS word / Warcraft / Firefox installed lol.
Upgrade checker now sees secure boot and TMP 2.0, it says I can add Windows 11. But I’m going to wait until more feedback has come out about it.
I wanted to keep Windows 8.1 on my laptop… but it refused to install Win 8.1 updates past a certain point. So I gave up and put Windows 10 on it.
But for my desktop? Well when i got a newer graphic card, it would crash under certain circumstances in Windows 8.1 (like going into WoW mount window=crash ) The nvidia graphic card recommended Windows 10 anyway and I wanted to be able to check/use my WoW mount list lol. So that got upgraded to Win 10 as well and the crash went away^^
I was actually considering giving Linux a try at some point. I’ve been hearing positive things about it, even that it’s slowly but surely becoming more PC compatible.
Not gonna make the switch immediately or soon, but certainly sooner than getting the new version of Windows.
As far as I know there isn’t any performance related advantage of w11, to be more precise there will be lots of bugs and optimization problems with the new OS, they haven’t figured out w10 completely yet, if you wanna be a labrat and test it go ahead I’ll stick to w10.
I got me an Alienware X51 R2 mini tower with Windows 10 pre-installed last autumn before SL launch. My old Alienware laptop wasn’t meeting the requirements anymore and so I use the mini PC like a console / home entertainment station with my flat screen now. I had Windows 7 on my laptop and didn’t want to change it really since I loved the aero glass template and never was a huge fan of the 10. However, since Update service ended and word wasn’t compatible anymore, I was forced to change.
Instalment took ages because the installation always stopped at 99 percent telling me the laptop wouldn’t meet requirements for Windows 10. Had to search for quite a while to find out that disabled CPU NX was the problem and even longer to find the setting in the bios because Alienware OF COURSE needs to rename the option in outer space secret galaxy slang fitting the area 51 hieroglyphs on the case.
Then of course another day wasted on disabling all unnecessary pre-settings in Windows 10 that slowed the laptop down to level lag party at launch, I swear I hate Microsoft…
What’s awesome. I suspect my definition of an awesome OS would be much different that your definition. Same issue with content in WoW.
Windows has had an issue with security for as long as it’s existed. They tried to patch it up but there’s going to be a time where you bite the bullet and just force users to make changes that will keep their computers secure.
This time is now and the solution Windows 11. I’m running on a Ivy bridge processor and according to health check I’m not compatible with Win11 due to the massive number of security features my hardware now misses.
If you’re a government you have to legislate for stupid. Look at safety signs where you get warnings not to do obviously stupid things.
Linux is 100% x86(-64) and always has been it just doesn’t run Windows programs ‘natively’, if that’s the right choice of word, you need API wrappers like Wine and they don’t always work well - and aren’t supported by a games tech support.
I like playing with Linux, it’s very geeky, that’s an issue. Linux has an issue with too many cooks. Depending on what distribution you use you you end a specific package. With Windows I just install and go. While, yes, Linux is much easier to use that in the past it’s just not as newbie friendly as Windows.
There’s security too. Linux has an admin account but just like Windows, if you give a burglar you’re key your fancy alarm system is of no use.
You forgot to mention having to enable TPM 2.0 in the BIOS before you cane even install it - i aint bothering with it until i am forced to. Thanks for the detailed breakdown , seems like yet even more spyware
I plan on upgrading my PC anyway but I’m waiting until prices come down drastically. I skipped 8.0 due to metro UI and didn’t install until 8.1 when the brought back the a start menu.
I’ve installed 11 on a virtual machine so not exactly excited.
Yikes. I hated Windows 8+ for all these kinds of things. I just want a basic Win 7 set-up, not all this phone malarky. I’ll have to seriously consider moving to Linux in 2025.
I don’t recomend. Windows 11 looks like version for tablet and mobile devices with touch screen. It reminds me Vista. If you are gamer you need simple system and Windows 11 is not. He makes lots of changes that no one was asking and from typical user looks confusing. I’m using task bar from Windows 95 so over 25 years, and now they move it to middle.
Also new Windows requirments are little bit too much for me, because if I want get new motherboard that support TMP 2.0 then I need change my ram memory, and CPU.
If Linux will even be more supported by developers I will move in to it.
) The nvidia graphic card recommended Windows 10 anyway and I wanted to be able to check/use my WoW mount list lol. So that got upgraded to Win 10 as well and the crash went away^^
