To add to the funny story, I have Ryzen 1900X on my desk (literally, the cpu in a small plastic box). Nowadays, those 8 Zen cores clocked at 3.8 GHz are not enough to run Windows, apparently.
He's talking about the Windows 11 hardware requirements, which are very strict and only support the newest CPUs.
However Windows 11 can be installed on the same hardware that runs Windows 10, it just won't allow you to upgrade. Otherwise it runs fine.
Microsoft is basically turning Windows into what mobile OS's are: tightly controlled and requiring specific hardware to ensure a particular set of user expectations with their devices. In other words, it's becoming a laptop OS.
> However Windows 11 can be installed on the same hardware that runs Windows 10, it just won't allow you to upgrade.
It was not possible to either run the update assistant or boot from install media and install from there; both means said that the machine doesn't meet minimum requirements.
They didn't even say which ones, just shown a generic link. Only the Health Check running under W10 said that it is the CPU.
