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Firefox has had PiP for yonks. And is this release really only for Windows 11? I thought pretty much everyone was skipping that, like Vista and 8.

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Windows 11 comes installed on most people’s computers, and among people on this site I’m pretty sure most of us have either had to update for some reason or just auto-updated one day. I don’t know anyone who is skipping Windows 11, given that it takes nontrivial effort to do so.

Conversely, I only know one person on Windows 11, and he just asked another friend for help rolling back to 10 due to how miserable support for his most used applications are.

Much like Windows 8, most people on Windows 11 tend to be the technically-disinclined, which generally are not the userbase of an experimental alternative browser. Thus I too, am understandably baffled at the lack of Windows 10 support.

A lot of people still dislike Windows 11, in no small part because it released in an unfinished state. I think 23H2 has finally made Windows 11 something work upgrading to, but if you're used to Windows 10, you'd never know that

Hmm, I hadn't heard about Dev Drive before, that might actually be mildly interesting.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

"it takes nontrivial effort to do so" - not sure I agree. My desktop (high-ish spec when I bought it in 2020) came without TPM 2.0 enabled, which effectively blocks 11. I could probably enable it, but that to me looks like the nontrivial effort.

Yeah the initial GA is for Windows 11 only. I'm also curious about the Windows 10 support release date. According to their newsletter, they plan to answer this question on their next YouTube video.

Technically you can force your way to install Arc on Windows 10[1], but it was a rough experience when I tried few months ago during beta.

[1]: Guide to installing Arc Browser on Windows 10 - https://gist.github.com/TrevTV/2044e43666a8fa4bb581d4b0c8316...

Windows 11 is, imo, mostly a nothing-burger compared to 10. It does make changes, some of which are nice, but it's overall fairly minor so far.

Unlike Vista and 8, nothing broke and everything is where I expect, so I've stuck with it.

Windows 11 requires significantly more advanced hardware and power to even be installed. Meanwhile, you could install Windows 10 on an WinXP-era netbook and it would be functional, if laggy on 2GB RAM.

It doesn't seem to require anything more, except maybe the whole TPM 2.0 thing.

Who is running 2GB of ram these days? Win 11 recommends 4GB, and imo that's very little on a modern computer. 8GB for casual use, 16 for anything more intensive.

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