Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11 system requirements

Re:Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows ... by debo_ on Sunday August 18, 2024 @01:08PM (#41283593)

I currently use various Ubuntus, Mac OS, Windows 10 and Windows 11 more or less evenly. Windows 11 is by far the most hostile and frustrating of these.

I quite like Windows 10. It's unassuming and everything more or less works. I was somewhat shocked at how much worse Windows 11 is, despite not looking that different at first glance.

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Re:Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows ... by nightski on Sunday August 18, 2024 @01:25PM (#41283733)

Windows 10 was fantastic. Unfortunately some nice features (maybe critical depending on your needs) are limited to Windows 11 only. Such as WiFi 6e/7 support and WSL 2 graphics/cuda support.

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Re:Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows ... by baal80spam on Sunday August 18, 2024 @01:32PM (#41283789)

> Windows 10 was fantastic.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Windows 7 was fantastic. Windows 10 was... OK at best.

I'll never forgive MS for what they did with the UI from Windows 8 onward.

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Re:Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows ... by Aeolun on Sunday August 18, 2024 @01:42PM (#41283869)

I think I can install windows 7 these days and marvel at the amazing upgrade it is from win 11. It’d be like they completely corrected course and fixed all their mistakes.

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Re:Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows ... by daulis on Sunday August 18, 2024 @03:06PM (#41284568)

WSL2 graphics support was backported and supports Win10. I’m not sure about CUDA though

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