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Re:Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on... by fafhnir on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:10PM (#42935341)
install linux, get vmware pro for free and install win 11 in a VM. VMWare emulates TPM so it will run like a charm. Only thing you need is 8Gigs or so extra ram. plus you have the benefits of running windows in a VM. No backup problems, snapshot funcionality, etc etc. works absolute fine for me
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Re:Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on... by wordglyph on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:11PM (#42935379)
Does VS studio work fine too?
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Re:Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on... by krupan on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:20PM (#42935511)
MS is treating you so badly that you want to switch to Linux, but you still want to use Visual Studio? Hmmm
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Re:Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on... by rantingdemon on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:45PM (#42936775)
Perhaps the OP needs it for work?
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Re:Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on... by jerhewet on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:49PM (#42938393)
I installed Windows 11 and Visual Studio 2022 on my Mac Mini M2 and it works like a bloody charm. It's not as fast as my main Windows development machines, but it's 100% functional and operational.

Bonus: I'm running Little Snitch on the OSX side, and it does a brilliant job of stomping all over Microsoft's telemetry.

Edit: Running it under VMWare Fusion.

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Re:Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on... by throwfgtpwd234 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:19AM (#42946960)
That's an Arm version of Windows though. The main reasons to install Windows revolve around the need to use Windows only x86/x64 versions of drivers or software.
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Re:Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on... by jerhewet on Friday February 07, 2025 @04:28PM (#42977680)
There is no M2 version of Visual Studio. The version of Visual Studio 2022 I installed was x64. I have some other x64 software installed as well (Notepad++, AWS CLI, git, etc.) and all of them work just fine under the ARM version of Windows 11 running under VMWare Fusion.
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Re:Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on... by throwfgtpwd234 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:18AM (#42946952)
vTPM only works if there's a real TPM available.
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