Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements

Thank god, for a second there I thought they meant "cracking down on people dodging Windows 11 by intentionally disabling TPM," like I've been doing. False alarm, carry on.

If you're using Windows 11 and not having a great time with it, there are ways to make the experience more pleasant. We've covered 14 tweaks to make Windows 11 better and how to remove Windows 11's junk, which is a good start toward making an OS you enjoy.

There's another way...

So Microsoft wants to force everyone to ditch their perfectly good machines so they can make more money off of selling OEM licenses.

I'm just waiting for Europe to sue their greedy asses for planned obsolescence.

“By god we have got to stop people from using Windows!”

Uh. Yes. Do that.

And here I am using a modern Linux OS on a 15 year old desktop without any issues or nagging to log into an online account or to backup all my shit to some server, open to hackers, in windows world.

Used market is about to have some bargains on very usable Linux machines.

No problem, I'm just dodging windows.

wants people to use windows 11 make it difficult to use windows 11 people find ways to use windows 11 anyway (what you wanted in the first place) punish them for using windows 11

???

Remember folks, a tool that you control serves your interests. But if someone else controls it, they serve their own.

The thing that I don't understand is that, if this is such a big problem for Microsoft, why not just remove the system requirements or at least make an alternative version of Windows 11 that, even if it lacks certain features, doesn't have those requirements?

Microsoft wants people to switch to Windows 11 but a majority stay with Windows 10 because their systems don't have what's required and they're either not willing to use Linux or they can't for what ever their reason is. Making Windows 11 more accessible to Windows 10 users would fix this problem for most users but they're not for some reason. I know they're Microsoft and Microsoft doesn't care about their users but they're seemingly willing to lose a significant portion of their users over something so insignificant, which is out of character for Microsoft.

but it seems that the Redmond giant has decided that enough is enough.

But why? People who take the effort have their reasons, find other ways.

Btw, Rufus patches the iso, works anyway.

If you must use Windows, download it legitimately from MS website. Use RUFUS to burn the ISO image to a USB. Remove the restrictions you hate.

Dual boot a Linux variant, and move over apps at your leisure, until you are no longer Win OS dependent.

M$ want to become even more unpopular with private users.

microsoft missed their bottom line so they need more planned obscelance

Well, they won't be able to sell as many new computers if they let people keep using their old ones.

I installed Linux mint on my laptop the other day because of various sustained long term annoyances with Windows. Despite some minor hiccups it only took about 30 minutes. It's been such a great experience so far.

Install Linux, be done with anything from Microsoft

Is there a way to make my PC seemingly not support Windows 11 so the annoying update nags go away? I'll never use that shit OS.

Good! The less PC's that run W11 the better

Is secure boot still required? Yes?

Can't force me to do shit Microsoft. Your own OS prevents it :)

Fighting with Windows 11 introduced me to Linux Mint, which works perfectly! I'm not an OS geek, so I really don't care about the OS -- it's just the thing I deal with on the way to Firefox.

Not all that long ago I was told by someone who claimed to be an expert that a 3 year old middle of the road gaming laptop was to old to support win 10 and that's why it was crashing all the time, Linux may not be perfect in every way but Windows is dying a slow, painful, e-waste generating death and Microsoft doesn't seem to care, I'm glad I jumped ship when I did

More people will be redirect to Linux, cool.

Every 2nd microsoft OS is bad. Its normal for them. XP good, vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad.

Article isn’t that great. The change is in beta, and it’s preventing the installer from accepting a switch that declares the OS to be a server product.

MS hasn’t said it’s going after any upgrades that are running out of spec hardware. This really sounds like they are just fixing an upgrade option.

As far as i know, windows 10 is still more functional, less of a resource hog (in windows terms), far FAR less telemetry and it just looks fucking nicer. It costs nothing to not upgrade, or you pay the tribute and join the linux brotherhood

I'm sorry is this the fucking draft

I mean, this was 100% predictable.

And anyone who didnt think it would happen were willfully blind or just plain ignorant.

If it's just an installer check then people could just use the old installer versions and update afterward right? Or are they planning on stopping updates for unsupported hardware that already installed windows 11?

Why though? This just means that Windows 11 will run on more devices? Why is so important for your device to have a TPM and Secure Boot enabled, and a supported processor? If I were Microsoft, I would put the requirements even lower or even removed them.

"How dare people install our OS without a DRM clipper chip"

Cant crack what you cant reach

This is just Vista all over again. Calm down people. Go to Linux or church if you're scared.

I only use Windows 11 because it came preinstalled on the latest laptop I bought. Otherwise I have been a Linux user for over 15 years and will switch back sooner or later. Microsoft is making their products the immoral choice and I do recommend boycotting them.

Honestly surprised something similar isn't the cutting edge.

Wait a second... We have repealable "ownership" of digital media all over, my mistake!

I've literally been trying to install windows 11 several times. I've made my PC support it, but the update just breaks and rolls back every time

When googling I see others with the same issue but no solution

This is customer abusive and should be illegal.

So what was the conspiracy theory around tpm requirements, bitlocker and copilot? Some new privacy nightmare?

Here's the best way you can dodge Windows 11 system requirements, and trust me.. you'll never look back. Infact, you can dodge Microsoft all together.

Thank me later. https://manjaro.org/products/download/x86