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    Before installing Linux, I had originally planned to dual-boot on my main PC, but somehow a gaming rig from 5 years ago isn't good enough to run windows 11, which is ridiculous.

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    [–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    Now genuinely curious, as an ex-Windows-refugee, how did the non-Windows-refugees, the "native" GNU/Linux users, find out about it?

    Edit: BTW, started a journey with a laptop in a place with no internet. Luckily I had the foresight to install GNU/Linux on it before I started my journey. I was constantly reminded that I were in the same situation with Windows, the computer would stop working because it had no internet. You need internet for Microshit office, Adobe software, etc. That was the time I said: there has to be a better way. That's when I started using free software. I'll take the occasional, inadvertent usability annoyance with free software over the megacorporations trying to constantly gang rape me into submission any day.

    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

    I did come from Windows but the story wouldn’t change from anywhere else. The install CD was on a store shelf and I bought it.

    [–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

    A Celeron n4000 with only two cores, 4gb of DDR 3 RAM and 80gb sata I 5400rpm drive, that takes 25 minutes to boot: βœ… supported by Windows 11 because introduced on the market after 2018

    A Xeon E7-8894 v4 with 24 cores, 3tb of ECC RAM and petabytes of nvme storage, paid $130k: ❌ unsupported by Windows 11 because introduced on the market before 2018

    A totally valid way to define minimum requirements...

    [–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 days ago

    It'll run the Windows 11 IoT edition and it'll run it well.

    (though it'd run Linux better :) )

    [–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    God, I love Linux nerds.

    That is a glorious pizza box computer.

    [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    :) I have an old 2010 network drive, running Debian and OpenMediaVault for music and video shares. It has 256MB of memory and doesn't need it all to act as a folder share and streaming box. Windows 11 needing such a high end chip to run is just really poor optimization

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    [–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    I am physicist and software engineer. My current Linux desktop PC is now 16 years old, from 2009, and with 8-core CPU and 16 GB RAM is still plain over-powered for running Emacs and rustc under Debian and Arch in VM. It is only the third desktop computer I own. I bought the second one in 1999, and that one had an AMD K6 (Pentium-like) CPU with 300Mhz clock, running S.u.S.E. Linux, and I used it for writing uni stuff and my PhD thesis on digital speech processing. The first PC I owned was a old PC with an Intel 80386 CPU which my uncle gave me in 1995. I could barely run Word 6.0 on Windows 3.11 on it (MS Word became very instable for larger documents), but LaTeX (emTeX) was running totally fine (after installing it from about 30 floppy disks).

    So, to sum up: Using Linux you will save a ton of money for hardware.

    [–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Extra fun: My current gaming laptop has a TPM, but it's so new that Windows 10 doesn't recognize it. So when I try to upgrade it says 'lol nope'.

    [–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago (13 children)

    The TPM requirement is artificial and can be bypassed in the installer.

    [–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 17 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    But I don't want to install windows

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    [–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.

    Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.

    But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

    https://endof10.org/

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    [–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 days ago
    [–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (11 children)

    Win11 is 4,5 years old and still feels like 10 builds away from going gold. It feels thrown together.

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    [–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Little PCeaser's.

    [–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    I had the same on my 5 year old gaming rig. Turns out only thing blocking it was TPM being disabled. I reluctantly upgraded, as I have too many files on my PC needed for my wife's visa process, as well as a 2 year old toddler, so I really don't currently have the time to sort through, and backup all the files, and then install Linux.

    [–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

    Ok so important advice: regardless of Win/Linux, back up your data! Hard drive failures happen, and it can happen randomly at any time. So if you have important documents or any data you want to keep, back it up onto another drive, and ideally a second back up off site. And then get in the habit of refreshing those backups regularly,

    I have had multiple hard drives failures over the years and learnt the hard way that you need multiple backups.

    This is also important as a 5 year old gaming PC means 5 year old hard drives, and shit really does happen.

    EDIT: And if you really have 0 time, get a second drive the same size as your hard drive and clone it. It's better than nothing and can be set up in minutes. It's not efficient as you will clone data you don't need but at least you'll be safe as soon as it's done.

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    Totally understandable. I took literal years to finally get a backup set up so that I could do this.

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    [–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

    That fan in there is probably bloat.

    [–] bobo1900@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago

    Someone got the link to the guy's video installing windows 11 on a 2007 Sun Workstation by disabling the arbitrary checks?

    [–] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    I had one of the Macintosh iBook G4s with the notoriously shitty graphics card soldering. Early days of lead-free soldering. Mine started to fail just outside of warranty. The 'fix' was to put a lot of pressure on the chip so that all the connections were held in place, but that was quite difficult to do while it was still a laptop.

    Dismantled the damn thing, yeeted the plastic shell, and screwed the remains onto a sheet of plywood. Looked a lot like pizza-box PC in the corner there. Got another couple of years out of it. Made it a lot more convenient for watching videos, since you could just prop the whole thing against a wall or whatever. Couple of USB extension leads meant that you could still use a mouse and keyboard in comfort.

    [–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    I recently built a PC and installed Windows 10 on it because I primarily built it to play League of Legends (don't judge me). Aside from that, I've also found a couple ways to get my hands on other games as well. My other daily driver already Kubuntu installed onto it and I'd really like to use some distro on this desktop PC, but it's just not really practicable since all the games would be running from exe files or have anti-cheat (screw you League). I don't really see a way around this apart from using virtual Windows for the games within Linux, right?

    [–] dingleberrylover@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Not all anticheat-games won't run on Linux. For example, I got Wuthering Waves running on Bazzite, although it uses kernel level anticheat. If a game does not have any anticheat software, it will probably run fine via Proton.

    League of Legends used to run on Linux in the past, but I haven't checked how the situation nowadays is.

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