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[–] [email protected] 108 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'm so glad I'm stuck with a "your hardware doesn't support windows 11" message.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just disable TPM in your BIOS if you have that option. Win 11 needs modern TPM so it won't upgrade you if you don't have one.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Needs" lol

It's just in there to sell more hardware. Afaik, 11 does nothing that actually requires the newer tpm.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah people who really wanted 11 back in the beginning found an easy process to bypass the check during the install. 11 works fine without it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

If you make the bootable USB drive with Rufus, a little window pops up asking if you wanna remove some of the bullshit, such as TPM and secure boot requirements.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

I disabled my TPM in BIOS so Windows would never upgrade

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I think this is a pretty big deal and they are shooting themselves in the foot with these unnecessary restrictions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Same, out of curiosity, I checked my system for that and got the message.

Even if I didn't, I'm not going to sit around all day as 64GB of "required" stora- oh I mean bloatware to install on my system.

Windows used to function fine with 2GB of storage. It does NOT need 64GB and Microsoft can get fucked.