Comment by 👻 darkghost

You need more hardware to support the features you don't want that are always running and can't be disabled. Copilot anybody? Forced OneDrive integration? How about ads? Gotta have lots of system resources for ads.

Microsoft forcing system upgrades for the latest OS is a tale as old as time. Well, at least as old as Windows 95, which on a 386 ran like molasses in winter at the south pole. The 386 was ten years old, but I'd say the majority of your 386s were sold in the late 80s or very early 90s, meaning they weren't that uncommon or old by 1995. Even a 486 with 4 MB of RAM was not great.

Apr 06 · 8 months ago

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my kids' computers have Win11 only has fallback, they run Debian by default. Actually one of those computer is telling me that Win11 is expired, and I don't understand what does it means since it doesn't allow me to buy anything...

Luckily or devilishly since all the services are in the cloud you can use whatever you want as long as a browser that supports them, so I have LibreWolf as a main browser and Vivaldi as backup.

I'd be curious to know what win11 expiring also means. It's on the computer and unless you're procuring from sources that fly the Jolly Roger, there isn't an excuse for legit copies to get disabled. Unless it's one of these things where it has to phone home every month or whatever.

At least they failed to lock the conputer up with secure whatever chip... For a while I was sure that they would eradicate linux that way.

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Been spending some free time putting Windows 11 on my 12 year old desktop (I know). It's amazing how much Microsoft is trying to kill off old hardware for no reason. Had to use Rufus to bypass the hardware check. I got a new SSD, and 8 gig ram on a fresh install and it runs just fine for my needs. Forced obsolescence. reinstalling apps and WSL has actually been enjoyable if I'm being honest.