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Re:Former Microsoft director of user experience trashes Wind... by badpun on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:17AM (#32659307)
> I won't be "upgrading" to Windows 11

Interestingly, on both my laptops (2013 MBP and a 2015 Lenovo gaming laptop) Windows says that they "don't meet minimum requirements to install Windows 11". They're perfectly reasonable machines and Windows 10 runs smooth as butter on both of them, since when did Microsoft got so picky? Anyway, I'm sort of glad, because if the machines were eliglble for the Windows 11 upgrade, I'm sure MS would just go for it one night without my permission.

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Re:Former Microsoft director of user experience trashes Wind... by Akronymus on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:26AM (#32659731)
Probably missing the TPM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module

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Re:Former Microsoft director of user experience trashes Wind... by jasomill on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @07:54AM (#32661008)
Also neither have a supported[1] CPU.

Though, if you really want to run Windows 11, easy workarounds[2] exist for both.

For what it's worth, I'm currently running Windows 11 on a 2011 MacBook Pro — in BIOS mode, actually, because EFI support for Windows is broken on this particular model — and hardware support is no worse than it is on supported versions of Windows (meaning mostly OK except for the lack of GPU switching and precision touchpad drivers), and considerably better than it is on recent, similarly unsupported Mac OS versions (this machine — my emergency "for the rare cases where I actually need a laptop" box — is currently triple-booting Windows 11 [BIOS], macOS Monterey [EFI], and Linux [EFI]).

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/min...

[2] https://rufus.ie/en/

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Re:Former Microsoft director of user experience trashes Wind... by smileybarry on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:49PM (#32665809)
If they're Skylake or newer and the Lenovo has a TPM + UEFI Secure Boot, you can probably clean-install Windows 11 without a hitch. I recently reinstalled a Win10-era Asus ZenBook with a Skylake m3 which Microsoft claimed "is not supported" but a normal, unpatched Win11 setup USB worked fine and Windows Update runs properly. (It doesn't complain about unsupported hardware as it would)
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