Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements

Guess Microsoft can buy me a new computer if they want me to use Windows 11.

BRUH

Interestingly, the software giant added this check since the Windows 11 24H2 will not boot without these instruction sets, according to a previous report. Though speculative, one would wonder if the company has this extra step in case someone uses bypasses to force the OS to boot with an unsupported CPU.

Why is the watermark the headline

Lol, year of the Linux desktop here we come XD

Hi, yeah. Uh long time listener, first time caller. Thank you for taking my question. Yes, I was wondering does Linux do this? I'll take my answer off the air. Thanks!

I have not dared to test my games with proton on Linux, but if they all work, Windows will be nothing but a VM for me that I use for the exceptions when something doesn't run under wine. Sheesh.

I’ll grab the popcorn while I watch the dumpster fire of what Microsoft is doing to Windows, from the comfort of my Linux-running system.

Obligatory BTW I use Arch.

That's weird, the watermark says, "I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further."

Who knew they were telling the truth after all. When they said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows.

Join the dark side 😈🐧

God damn. It went down hill fast. I’m actually gonna start looking at distros. Fuck. I just bought a mini pc to install OPNsense on but I think my weekend just drastically shifted.

ai file explorer? I can fi d my own files thanks

My windows 10 already has a watermark to activate it

Too bad I'm on Linux.

Given how Linux support for steam has been going I've just started migrating everything and just popping in to windows when I have something that doesn't work.

Don't threaten me with a good user experience.

Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinux

Screenshot?

Wasnt going to install it anyway so no loss

i'd rather have web 3.0 and crypto than ai

I've spent half a day yesterday to set up a VM running Debian on my office's Win PC. Since I'm tied to Windows because of my proprietary CAD, my plan is to limit my interaction to a minimum and instead do everything else in the Linux-VM. With shared drives and drag'n'drop I hope it will work out. It comes in also very handy that I started years ago to strictly choose open source software that's available for both platforms - so no learning curve. Since MS won't listen - we all need to laudly complain about the lack of linux support towards our software providers. And yes, maybe too naïve, it will change something in the long run.

One has to wonder how many clock cycles are wasted to render the watermark

Li-nux! Li-nux! Li-nux! Li-nux!

Yet another reason to toss non-DOS based software.

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hardware requirements aren't that huge ... a cpu that supports 11 and 16GB RAM minimum. CPU has to support SSE4.2, which every 11 compatible cpu has. Honestly, this should be your minimum requirements nowadays. Anythjng that can't do the job is literally 8+ years old.