From Microsoft's website:
>Memory integrity works better with Intel Kabylake and higher processors with Mode-Based Execution Control, and AMD Zen 2 and higher processors with Guest Mode Execute Trap capabilities. Older processors rely on an emulation of these features, called Restricted User Mode, and will have a bigger impact on performance.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
Most of my machines were on a Linux distro before that decision, and Debian 12 is providing a good enough to me experience on the desktop, even gaming.
I'll probably just stay there indefinitely. Is that an upgrade? Subjective. I'm happier here.
There're no fundamental changes to what's actually required, the limitations are arbitrary and set by Microsoft (and they provide a means to get around them).
It'll work fine.
If not, there are other operating systems that do work. Microsoft isn't the exclusive owner of the PC space, that's one of the major points of all of the antitrust fines and lawsuits.
But hey at least the OS has a revolutionary new green technology called... Battery saving mode!
Kool-aid Jammers are my latest laugh. Plastic pouch. Plastic straw wrapper. Paper straw.
Right, the straw was the enemy here?
They chose an arbitrary cut-off date for hardware support for their new OS. They decided not to support old stuff anymore and they had to pick a date/technology platform. It was always going to be arbitrary. In my opinion they should've picked a clearer distinction (i.e. require a certain level of AVX support so all binaries can be built with AVX optimizations enabled) but I can see why they chose to do this. After all, they're going to have to support the OS for ten years, that four year old CPU is fourteen years old by the time Windows 11 goes out of support.