Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

[petter1@lemm.ee]

Yes!
I di so too every device with an open/hackable boot loader, I am be like, “You know, you can install Linux on this and be free!”

[petter1@lemm.ee]

”there is no need to change default speed”.

You know, there is not a globally agreed “perfect” scrolling speed, even if driver is better for windows.

But the better driver on windows maybe allows changing scroll speed after all.

I guess not, changing scroll speed does not work on a lot of touchpads, even on windows.

[letsgo@lemm.ee]

Have you ever had Windows break so badly that you had to burn an install disk...

As a programmer, yes under Windows 3.0 I could crash the computer so hard that the only way to recover was to reformat the hard disk. It got progressively better in later versions and everything from Windows 2000 has been virtually uncrashable.

My most recent hard crash was when I had a VM, two Minecraft instances and Firefox all open at the same time and Windows ran out of memory (so I upgraded from 32GB to 64GB). It does make me wonder why some of that didn't get swapped out though.

[darkenfolk@dormi.zone]

Soonish

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

The update claims that Windows Defender now identifies the app as potential malware. Flyby11 is a popular third-party tool that allows people to dodge the TPM 2.0 requirement and install Windows 11 on any machine, so Defender suddenly taking a dislike for the app does raise a few eyebrows.

Well, it was only a matter of time until MS abuses their malware scanner for software they don't like.

[midithekid@lemmy.world]

While this article is about upgrading to Win11, not necessarily a clean install, I found the best way to bypass the requirements is to make an autounnatend with Schneegans.de . Make a Win11 installation USB, generate an autounnatend to bypass the requirements, remove bloat, allow offline install (local account instead of Microsoft account), and a couple other little tweaks like dark mode etc. Drop the xml on the root of the flash drive, and boom.

Or... You know... Install Linux.

[macgyver@federation.red]

Rufus can do this too

[01189998819991197253@infosec.pub]

Yeah... their post gave me the willies, too. It's like walking into Russia/Ukraine's front lines and yelling "fuck Putin" over and over.

"Well, I wasn't shot yet, so it's fine"

...

[ohvenus_baby@lemmy.ml]

Mint. There you forgot to finish your sentence.

[fizz@lemmy.nz]

WinXP is such a nice theme. Good choice.

[vala@lemmy.world]

The issue is with libinput so kinda but it's a "Linux" issue for sure.

[shdwdrgn@mander.xyz]

Sometimes I wonder what actual programs Linux permanents use on the daily.

For me it's the usual stuff like Firefox and Thunderbird, plus chat programs running constantly, with ssh consoles, VM managers, and text documents sitting in the background. Depending on which project I'm working on at the time I might be using GIMP, OpenSCAD, developing circuit boards, printing 3D models, writing arduino code, designing model train layouts, managing photographs or using kstars to run my star tracker. And there's the more mundane stuff like having LibreOffice and PDF docs open, playing music, or watching a downloaded TV show. I really get into a lot of different projects so from month to month there will always be something different running on my desktop.

I did finally break down and order a newer LGA1155 motherboard so I can bump up to 32G of memory, should be here tomorrow and then maybe I won't run so dangerously close to running out of memory all the time. Having to wait half an hour while firefox does garbage collection really sucks.

[shdwdrgn@mander.xyz]

Oof how much space do those Minecraft instance take up??? My biggest usage is from Firefox, usually takes about 10GB of memory on my 16GB systems, but I run a lot of heavier stuff like building 3D models in the rest of the available space. I'm waiting on a replacement motherboard so I can upgrade to 32G though.