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Windows 11

Sometimes it's clear they should have sought out and considered feedback before making an announcement.
 
Hellbound said:
I don’t see this as a bad thing. They listen to concerns and complaints from their customers, and adjust accordingly. Not a bad thing, I’m this case.
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My point is that this is all tediously familiar. MS shocking announcement. Panic in the streets. MS claws back. My hero.

Yeah, the same old PR template.

For sure it's not a bad thing that they allow older machines to run Win 11. I just never doubted that this would be the case.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Install a reliable version that will receive security updates without buying a new computer?
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TPM is a part of the hardware and I presume it makes tightening up security much easier. They have no control over that.

When they brought in checking before you could run a program that did something in an insecure way everyone turned it off because it was so annoying.
 
Wudang said:
I wonder if they receive too much early feedback from nerds, professional IT people, etc who are perhaps not representative of their "typical" user.
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Or someone decided to ignore the feedback, until it became clear it really would be a problem for them.
 
Darat said:
Re: What you can do with Linux that you can't do with Windows....
Install a reliable version that will receive security updates without buying a new computer?
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What forever? :rolleyes:
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(Assuming your response was serious)

I would say yes. Or, at least for a significant amount of time in the future.

And even if the brand of Linux you have installed ends up abandoned by its creators (It does happen... see CentOS), you can probably switch to another version of Linux with little difficulty (and no cost).
 
Butter! said:
Oh god, time to switch to Linux like I'm always threatening to do.

How do i Linux
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I have actually started to go all-Linux at home.

I use Linux Mint as the main operating system on the laptops/desktops I have. Seems to have no problems with the hardware on any of my computers (and some of the machines are over a decade old). The only thing I still need Windows for is for the tax software I use once a year. For that, I have installed a free program called VirtualBox (from Oracle), which allows you to run VMs (which I use to run a copy of Windows 7).

Granted, my computer usage may not be typical.... I'm not a gamer, and I don't have specialized hardware (like a fancy printer/scanner/advanced video card). I largely use my computer for:
- Web surfing
- Doing a remote-desktop into my office computer at work
- video conferencing (which seems to work well using my web browser and the web versions of the conferencing software)
- Light word processing/spread sheets (using free office software that comes with Linux)
 
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