[rescue] off-topic but advice needed for the involuntary hardware upgrade for Win 11?

[Lionel Peterson]

My comments related to future updates, not current status. Earlier this month MS reaffirmed that they will not be loosening/expanding CPU requirements and that their position remains unchanged regarding older processors & Win 11.

Again, I used Win 11 *support* as a defining feature for buying hardware to run windows on, as OP requested.

I can run doom on a pregnancy test stick, but that doesn't mean if I want to play doom I should go out and buy a pregnancy test kit...

 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33957256/this-programmer-figured-out-how-to-play-doom-on-a-pregnancy-test/

(OK, not really running on stock pregnancy test, but I wanted to share the link...)

Ken

> On Dec 19, 2024, at 08:42, Scott Quinn via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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> Lionel Peterson wrote:
> "Microsoft had condoned certain workarounds for Win11 system checks, but they have recently indicated that those workarounds will not be included/supported/tolerated in future updates of Win11."
> 
> I've been looking at these and they seem to read "we're not going to go out of our way to make it work, but it might, but we aren't going to guarantee it so don't yell at us if it doesn't work and definitely don't write your congresspeople about how awful we are and get us in a big investigation because we told you that it isn't guaranteed to work in words calculated to show you the worst possible scenario"
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> FWIW I have two 4th-gen Intel Core boxes running Windows 11 and it seems to work OK and does update. Drivers required a bit of jiggling. My Mac Pro 2010 also is happily running MacOS 15.2. YMMV.
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