No doubt they just wanted to kill off old computers.
There's nothing about Windows 11 that's so fundamentally different from 10 that it needed updated hardware requirements. Hell, the code to boot off of non-UEFI motherboards is still on the fricking install disk. They just want grandpa to think he needs to new computer so they can get some more of that sweet OEM money.
>There's nothing about Windows 11 that's so fundamentally different from 10 that it needed updated hardware requirements
Isn't that true since windows 7?
>No doubt they just wanted to kill off old computers.
This and unironically. Vista wasn't a bad OS and 7 wasn't a great OS, the main difference between them is people upgraded their PCs/parts to support Vista because of the change in driver model, and when 7 came around everyone had something that already worked. Now 11 is "forcing" people to upgrade and when 12 comes around with whatever requirements, they won't have to worry about people trying to run it on their Pentiums anymore.
Because the system needs to move forward, but you can't do this unless you kill off some support for obsolete software and hardware. So, a new version is that, a platform that can evolve away from what 99% of consumers no longer need.
Backwards compatibility has been one of the greatest selling points of Windows. Without it, there is significantly less of a reason to use Windows at all, especially with the increasingly awful UX changes and the seemingly endless parade of new spyware/telemetry and adware additions.
The line needs to go up.
Microsoft has not developed anything "revolutionary" in years (in the operational system), just played with the UI. If they don't sell, they don't profit, and if they don't profit, shareholders jump boat.
I switched to Windows 11 because Microsoft will probably force you to within the next year so why delay the inevitable. Just switch now and get used to it.
Lol, why?
I get why people fled from Windows 10 in 2015, but Windows 11 in 2022? >I'm willing to put up with being spied on, having ads integrated into my shell, having all my keystrokes be sent directly to the NSA, and compulsory updates with mandatory restarts, but I DRAW THE LINE AT ROUNDED CORNERS!!!
>W10 >W8 but unbotched and functional
You mean W8 but unstable and applying zoomershit design to everything (also replacing and removing perfectly working panels) instead of a settings menu you'll never see and a start menu you can replace
Windows 10 didn't get good until 2020. People just like to forget how awful this OS has been for years now that MS came up with something else.
>it's literally just "W10 but LE NEWER"
Why is that inherently a bad thing? I'd rather have that than a fundamental redesign that ultimately ends up being complete shit like Windows 8 was. >W11 doesn't, other than being a consoom product.
You're not paying for it anyway, so who cares?
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because it will only break things that aren't broken
I used windows 11 for a good while and just yesterday went back to 10. Not because it looks bad, at the contrary. In my opinion 10 always looked so shit that 11 was refreshing. The issue is performance. The issue is I can't just have file copying between drives arbitrarily slow down. The issue is you open a context menu and it's just delayed. The issue is I'm fricking emptying my recycle bin and there's a weird fricking glitch that makes a part of the explorer UI black. Because it's still a beta I don't see why I should keep with it. Again, I hate how W10 looks but I'd rather have something working the way it should.
Why did they feel the need to rewrite the taskbar from scratch and now refuse to add back features that were removed that have existed for a decade in previous versions for no good reason alienating maybe 5~15% of their user base forcing them to use questionable third party software to get around it if some even know how to, never upgrade, or leave windows for good?
also >inb4 doxing mass reply schizo spammer "muh anti-windows thread here's a mega link" guy
OS hasn't really changed besides raping the taskbar and start menu repeatedly since win8 so it's comfy. Can fix that.
TPM requirements are anti consumer though. I think the rage over that won't surface until normalhomosexuals become aware of the fact right when Microsoft starts telling Win10 users the support is ending and they "have to" buy a whole new computer lmao.
The rest of us know how to bypass that stupid shit.
Because consumertards will eat shit and love it if you put virtually anything in front of them enough times.
idk i just consooom
Industry standard(tm)
No doubt they just wanted to kill off old computers.
There's nothing about Windows 11 that's so fundamentally different from 10 that it needed updated hardware requirements. Hell, the code to boot off of non-UEFI motherboards is still on the fricking install disk. They just want grandpa to think he needs to new computer so they can get some more of that sweet OEM money.
>There's nothing about Windows 11 that's so fundamentally different from 10 that it needed updated hardware requirements
Isn't that true since windows 7?
Actually yes. Since Vista, really.
>No doubt they just wanted to kill off old computers.
This and unironically. Vista wasn't a bad OS and 7 wasn't a great OS, the main difference between them is people upgraded their PCs/parts to support Vista because of the change in driver model, and when 7 came around everyone had something that already worked. Now 11 is "forcing" people to upgrade and when 12 comes around with whatever requirements, they won't have to worry about people trying to run it on their Pentiums anymore.
It's nothing to do with that.
If you don't know then you shouldn't be allowed to use a computer.
terry was actually unironically pretty wise
Because the system needs to move forward, but you can't do this unless you kill off some support for obsolete software and hardware. So, a new version is that, a platform that can evolve away from what 99% of consumers no longer need.
This is an extremely long winded way to say that Microwiener™ needs more money.
>FOSS has new versions incompatible with old versions
>I sleep
>the best universal OS gets this
>hurr moneys
>the best
>universal
Backwards compatibility has been one of the greatest selling points of Windows. Without it, there is significantly less of a reason to use Windows at all, especially with the increasingly awful UX changes and the seemingly endless parade of new spyware/telemetry and adware additions.
The line needs to go up.
Microsoft has not developed anything "revolutionary" in years (in the operational system), just played with the UI. If they don't sell, they don't profit, and if they don't profit, shareholders jump boat.
I use LTSC.
I see that pape everywhere.
It's probably stuck in everyone's deep consciousness by now.
Because that same homosexual posts it everywhere.
>I only suck small feminine dicks
You are still sucking a dick at the end of the day.
>TPM 2.0
your PC has been locked from booting up by feds and there is nothing i can do to unfrick it
Microsoft have been pushing SecureBoot and all that garbage since Windows 8.
I switched to Windows 11 because Microsoft will probably force you to within the next year so why delay the inevitable. Just switch now and get used to it.
My LTSC is supported until 2032.
Eating ze bugs, living in ze pod, and you still have 2 years to spare.
No, I'll carry on eating steak and running LTSC, thanks.
Windows 11 is the reason why I decided to switch to Linux for my main OS
Lol, why?
I get why people fled from Windows 10 in 2015, but Windows 11 in 2022?
>I'm willing to put up with being spied on, having ads integrated into my shell, having all my keystrokes be sent directly to the NSA, and compulsory updates with mandatory restarts, but I DRAW THE LINE AT ROUNDED CORNERS!!!
Windows 11 blows donkey penis. I may be a flaming fricking homosexual, but even Windows 11 is too gay for me
That didn't explain anything
But now I know you're a gay so I can immediately discard whatever your opinion is
W7
>perfect
W8
>botched attempt at simulating zoomerphone designs to appeal to the younger generation
W10
>W8 but unbotched and functional
and then you have W11
>has no reason to exist, it's literally just "W10 but LE NEWER"
8 and 10 are dogshit but they have identifiable reason to exist. W11 doesn't, other than being a consoom product.
>W10
>W8 but unbotched and functional
You mean W8 but unstable and applying zoomershit design to everything (also replacing and removing perfectly working panels) instead of a settings menu you'll never see and a start menu you can replace
Windows 10 didn't get good until 2020. People just like to forget how awful this OS has been for years now that MS came up with something else.
>it's literally just "W10 but LE NEWER"
Why is that inherently a bad thing? I'd rather have that than a fundamental redesign that ultimately ends up being complete shit like Windows 8 was.
>W11 doesn't, other than being a consoom product.
You're not paying for it anyway, so who cares?
because it will only break things that aren't broken
i've had the same laptop running 8.1 until this year. when i got a new machine jumped ship rather than deal with 10 or 11
because Win10 is a literal block-fest by modern standards of UI design. 11 isn't that special but certainly better than 10.
because it's better than that god awful clunk of shit 10
I used windows 11 for a good while and just yesterday went back to 10. Not because it looks bad, at the contrary. In my opinion 10 always looked so shit that 11 was refreshing. The issue is performance. The issue is I can't just have file copying between drives arbitrarily slow down. The issue is you open a context menu and it's just delayed. The issue is I'm fricking emptying my recycle bin and there's a weird fricking glitch that makes a part of the explorer UI black. Because it's still a beta I don't see why I should keep with it. Again, I hate how W10 looks but I'd rather have something working the way it should.
They want to sell more TPM's.
Why did they feel the need to rewrite the taskbar from scratch and now refuse to add back features that were removed that have existed for a decade in previous versions for no good reason alienating maybe 5~15% of their user base forcing them to use questionable third party software to get around it if some even know how to, never upgrade, or leave windows for good?
also
>inb4 doxing mass reply schizo spammer "muh anti-windows thread here's a mega link" guy
Makes poorgays and IQfytards (but I repeat myself) seethe.
OS hasn't really changed besides raping the taskbar and start menu repeatedly since win8 so it's comfy. Can fix that.
TPM requirements are anti consumer though. I think the rage over that won't surface until normalhomosexuals become aware of the fact right when Microsoft starts telling Win10 users the support is ending and they "have to" buy a whole new computer lmao.
The rest of us know how to bypass that stupid shit.
>The rest of us know how to bypass that stupid shit
Yes, because Microsoft told you how during the beta phase.
idk about that I just used a regedit script from github.
I use Windows 11 Ent 22H2
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