Eniko Fox1d ago

microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11

people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11

microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11

tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive

microslop: ah well, nevertheless

Show threadJernej Simončič �1d ago

@eniko If for some reason you want to upgrade to 11 despite Microsoft claiming your computer doesn't support it, there are two ways:

  • if the only thing you're missing is new enough CPU (but you have TPM and Secure Boot), set HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup → AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU=dword:1 and the Setup will run (it'll show a warning, but let you continue)
  • if you don't have TPM and/or Secure Boot, run setup.exe /product server, and it'll ignore everything

OTOH, as long as you pretend to be in EU, you can register to receive security updates for Windows 10 for free until October. Or you can use the scripts from massgrave.dev to activate ESU.

Show threadGrumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱14h ago

@jernej__s @eniko That's how I've been running Win11 on my gaming / daily driver PC for the last 8 months. Works fine.

Yes, yes, I've got 4 other machines in my house running Linux. But I've got hardware that Wine doesn't support and the Linux versions of similar software aren't featureful enough yet.

Show threadJernej Simončič �
@grumble209 @eniko The only hard limit in Windows 11 24H2 (and newer) is that the CPU must support POPCNT instruction, which every CPU made after 2010 does (it does mean that Core 2 and Athlon64 CPUs are unsupported, unlike Windows 10 and Windows 11 up to 23H2, but those CPUs are so slow that they're not really usable nowadays).
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