If you’ve bought or built a new PC within the last eight or so years, then it’ll almost certainly have a TPM chip, but the older the hardware, the less likely it’ll be present or the right version.
That meant when Windows 11 appeared with its TPM 2.0 requirement, an enormous swathe of perfectly viable PCs were left without the chance to upgrade to the latest version of Windows
Linux people: Linux would never do you dirty like this.
Mac people: Whoa, they let you use EIGHT YEAR OLD hardware? Lucky!
Also Linux: running in 13 year old apple hardware.
I have a 16 year old ThinkPad running an NVR server for 4 cameras. It’s not happy about it but it works >_<
But over in the phone world:
Android phone :: two years old? We don’t do updates any more. Buy a new phone.
Google/Samsung :: if you buy our expensive range, we can do five years of updates. Isn’t that great!
iPhone SE 1st gen :: still going strong with updates after 8 years.
Google and Samsung do 7 years now. My OG SE hasn’t received an update in a while.
Has it not? I saw one come a week or so ago.
I’ll check mine🙂
It has to be easier to just switch to Linux than it is to do these bypasses
That’s kind of why I switched. I was spending time and effort trying to force Windows to obey, I decided I might as well spend that time on an OS that wasn’t actively fighting against me.
The bypass is just ticking a box while making the bootdrive to install the OS. If making a bootdrive is too hard, installing linux is probably out of the question.
Didn’t they have their surprised Pikachu face moment about people not switching to 11 already?
Microsoft is doing its best to make Year of the Linux Desktop a reality
Microsoft business was never meant to convince: it’s either forcing their way in by bully OEMs in doing what they want, and make sure Linux isn’t an option, like in the ACPI case, or buy successful companies that elude their direct control (or simply buy companies that already won the battle they are fighting, like their desperate attempt to make a success “Microsoft Game Studio” and instead resort to buy Bethesda, Activision etc.)
