Gentle reminder to everyone that support for #windows10 ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can’t upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

  1. Continue on Win 10 but with higher security risks.
  2. Buy new and expensive hardware that supports Win11.
  3. Try a beginner friendly #Linux distro like #linuxmint. It only takes about two months to acclimate.

@nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

  • yianiris@kafeneio.social
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    9 months ago

    I would advise #linux over anything proprietary to begin with.

    If you want to really go the w11 way it is not as restrictive as they make it sound, in fact in 90% of the cases it says it can’t it can.

    8GB of ram and GPT partitioning!

    Many w10 were upgraded from w7-8-9 and retained the DOS/mbr and w10 would work with either part.table. Win-setup says it can’t auto-upgrade but it can install if you delete the partitions and start with clean disk.

    @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

    • Grum999 :verified:@masto.ai
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      9 months ago

      @yianiris @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot most of windows users don’t even know what is a partition… talking about GPT, you can be sure they’ll interpret this as something related to ChatGPT… :ablobcatknitsweats:

      also on my side, I have a w10 running in VM, with MBR.
      cloned the VM and upgraded it to w11 took me time and I had to do a lot of tech stuff for the GPT
      not hard, but technical; too technical for most of Windows users probably…

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        9 months ago

        I was reading what it would take to run a legal copy of w10/11 in a vm since the vm doesn’t provide the chip to embed the license (post 5th gen intel and similar amd) and I almost threw up with MS disgusting policies of trying to sell more and more for every use.

        If your mb gets fried you have to call up and authorize the transfer of license …

        You can’t buy a $50 refurbished with sticker and get a free license for w11 :)

        @grum999 @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

        • Grum999 :verified:@masto.ai
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          9 months ago

          @yianiris @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot I bought a valid license key product of W11 of 0.14eur :ablobcatcoffee:
          (And my w10 also have a valid license key bought for similar price)

          It’s an OEM license so once it’s used, I can’t reuse it on an another computer
          But at this price I think it’s Ok to buy a new one if the MB is dead 😅

          But an another side, MB of a VM normally won’t die 💪

          I’m not sure what you mean by “since the vm doesn’t provide the chip to embed the license”?