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Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot by advael on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:54PM (#27646764)
It's amazing how no amount of altering the deal to be worse for consumers seems to get people to mass-exodus from these proprietary platforms, despite the existence of numerous alternatives
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Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot by Santosh83 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @11:54PM (#27648439)
They're captured. They want their games. They want their shiny new peripherals to work. And they want all this seamlessly, without messing with Proton/Wine or config options.

In fact why even go this far? Most people have no idea what an OS is. They just buy a "device" and use whatever software platform comes baked into the device and all of them are proprietary.

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Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot by artificialLimbs on Sunday June 27, 2021 @12:15AM (#27648529)
It's not consumers that matter much in this game. It's businesses, which will incur massive cost and down time to retool their entire fleet if they switch. Windows has clearly not become unappealing enough for that, sadly.
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Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot by ChuckNorris89 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:21AM (#27649659)
>It's businesses, which will incur massive cost and down time to retool their entire fleet if they switch.

That's a non issue since most businesses upgrade their fleet every 3 years or so and are also very slow and reluctant when upgrading to newer versions of Windows (my last job switched from Win 7 to 10 only 4 years ago) so by the time they finish waiting out for Microsoft to iron out Windows 11, years down the line, their fleet will have been already replaced at least once.

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Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot by artificialLimbs on Sunday June 27, 2021 @11:40PM (#27657882)
>> That's a non issue...

Have you ever trained a few hundred or more 'non-tech' people (and I mean people who don't know what a file is) on a switch from Windows to something non-proprietary? How did that go for you, if so?

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