>Windows 10 is being more and more popular,
Hasn't Windows 10 been a thing that's come and gone now in favor of Windows 11?
Hasn't Windows 10 been a thing that's come and gone now in favor of Windows 11?
Windows 11 has additionally made a lot of questionable choices that are forcing a lot of people to stay on Windows 10 involuntarily (e.g. they don't support motherboards w/out TPM's and they don't officially support CPUs that aren't relatively new; e.g. it only "supports" Intel CPUs that are 8th gen or newer regardless of cores/frequency)
Search that is significantly slower than win10 while being "vastly better" only because win10 search was straight up non-functional and win11 can at least find what you're looking for (whether it's in a reasonable order and doesn't reshuffle with every keystroke seems to be a gamble each update).
"Nicer UI" that only a minority of users actually like, removes support for very common configurations, some of which are objectively more efficient for certain use-cases (side taskbar, ungrouped windows...).
Don't get me wrong, if it works for you, that's great! But make no mistake, Windows 11 is a complete dumpster fire from a UX perspective.
I suppose, but I refuse to give it any credit for finally fixing the search that worked fine over a decade ago.
The rest is pretty marginal.
That alone is enough for me to hate it.
Can we please end this FUD that keeps parroted over and over?
Microsoft themselves mention that TPM 2.0 and CPU model requirements are just soft-requirements checked if you go the upgrade path but are not enforced if you do a fresh install from image[1] when only TPM 1.2 is the single hard requirement, but every CPU after 2011 should have it. I installed from image Win 11 on multiple PCs with chips way older than Intel 8th gen and had no speedbumps.
[1] "Important: An image install of Windows 11 will not check for the following requirements: TPM 2.0 (at least TPM 1.2 is required) and CPU family and model."
[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ways-to-install-...
>We do not recommend installing Windows 11 on a device that doesn't meet requirements.
And on a linked page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/installing-windo...
>Installing Windows 11 on a device that does not meet Windows 11 minimum system requirements is not recommended.
>If you proceed with installing Windows 11, your PC will no longer be supported and won't be entitled to receive updates.
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I would update to Windows 11, but the possibility that I will stop receiving updates (or that at some point updates will no longer be compatible) makes it unappealing.
The fact that they straight up say that these configurations may not be eligible for auto-updates is very much saying they do not support these configurations.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
However, as mentioned in the article, if it's a "well-known" device, then you still need to use Zadig and override the driver to something like WinUSB.