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What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on "unsupported" PCs (arstechnica.com)
2 points by rbanffy on Oct 28, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Microsoft's definition of unsupported or incompatible hardware appears perfectly aligned with forcing users to buy new PCs. In fact, it seems most of their requirements, are about more profit for themselves and partners, regardless of the inconvenience to even already paying or paid for it customers. Thus if Windows users don't like it, guess they will have to jump to Linux or Macs.


Microsoft proclaims your PC to be incompatible with Windows 11 if your booted system has an mbr partition table instead of a gpr one.

In my opinion this is irresponsible because it scams a lot of users to believe their device is outdated instead of just having a wrong software configuration.

Not going to use secure boot for a bad OS and certainly not using any form of online account, but that is a different issue.

Sadly we will see a lot of badly configured OEM versions and surprisingly many notebook devices struggle with running a clean windows installation due to numerous driver issues.




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