Microsoft is a Marxist company (of the Groucho line). According to the specialized press, the principles they had in June, as it seems that their customers did not like them, they changed them.
A reluctant change
Yesterday, the boys of Satya Nadella announced which artificial restrictions that prevented Windows 11 from being installed on hardware that did not meet artificially set specifications will be removed. Of course, they do it after tutorials on how to bypass those limitations proliferated on YouTube and download sites overflowed with modified Windows 11 images to avoid obstacles.
Officially, the change in stance is for companies to test Windows 11 and decide whether to change the hardware to fully utilize it. There is a limitation that remains. It will only be possible to install Windows 11 from scratch. Forget about updating from Windows 10 with Windows Update and keep your programs, settings and documents. Or did you think you could stick with your perfectly reasonable stance of continuing to use hardware that still has quite a bit of life left instead of swapping it out when Microsoft tells you to do so and take it over the top?
Making a ridiculous thing that has not been seen since the time when HP hid that its printers were perfectly compatible with Linux while underwhelming they distributed the drivers in Sourceforge, from Redmod they assured that nor promote the possibility of installation on computers prior to the eighth generation of Intel. In fact, the executives contacted a medium to slide the possibility that these types of installations might not receive updates (not even security ones) and that they wash their hands in terms of the operation of the controllers.
To have a clean time. If you have a 64-bit 1 GHz computer with 64 gigs of storage, more than two cores and 4 gigs of RAM, down there you have the comment form to say that you do not install Windows 11, because Linux is better and not because your computer does not support it.
According to Microsof testst Devices that did not meet the minimum hardware requirements had 52 percent more kernel mode failures. In other words, the same as any other version of Windows. (Sorry, this is a Linux blog, if I don't meet my monthly quota of blue screen jokes, I don't get paid at the end of the month.)
Why moving to Linux is your best option for 2022
For most of the month I had my computer in service. I had to get by with an old netbook and a smartphone, both with 1GB of memory and 64GB of storage. The netbook can barely handle Ubuntu Mate. Android on mobile can have multiple applications open and it continues to run smoothly.
Previously that netbook ran with the desktop version of the Raspberry Pi operating system. He was walking like lightning. Without having the main computer I did not dare to delete Mate and reinstall it, but, as soon as I can, I will do it.
What does all this have to do with Windows?
The moral of my story is that performance limitations is not a hardware issue, it is software. And, in the case of Windows 11 business decisions. Microsoft wants to force an update of equipment to impose certain technologies and / or specifications. For example is the case of DHC (Declarative and Composite Hardware Support Applications) This is a driver design that Microsoft wants to convince hardware manufacturers to adopt. With DHC Applications, such as GPU control panels, are separated from the driver installation with DCH, allowing manufacturers to service them separately without having to issue a new driver update.
If you choose Linux, your investment in hardware will not be reduced to ashes on the altar of a company's business projections. As in the case of my netbook, there will always be a Linux distribution that allows you to continue using your computer as when it left the factory. That is why your best option is to switch to Linux.
And, if you need more reasons. Here I'll tell you some more.
In Linux blogs, the terminal is always used for everything, when we have excellent desktop environments, any user who comes from Windows and sees that they must use the terminal will go back to Windows and speak pests of Gnu / Linux.
To solve problems in Windows you must resort to command line
To update I could use the manager but it is slower, you put a command, surely you wrote it at another time, password and in X minutes everything is ready, I do not ask anything else and I update everything
In Linux you have a lot of bugs, mostly when a driver doesn't work and you have to install everything manually. In Windows, Microsoft takes care of installing the Drivers if there are any in their records thanks to the Hardware ID of the connected device. The worst and most dangerous thing about Linux is that most of the people who suggest a solution on Stackoverflow pages is to modify system files. Yesterday I had a problem of uncommenting an internal file so that the screen would not be black when I share it by a transmission and I end up stuck in a command line without showing me the login screen and I had to resort to Windows and use a software to access the file on the ext4 partition and leave it as it was because DEBIAN does not have a recovery mode.
And not to mention the lack of Antivirus in Linux ...
Yes, there are terminal fanatics who believe that every user of distributions needs to be a developer when many people are just looking for a secure distribution that works better than Microsoft's.
It is a way of looking at it. The other is that if you write a terminal-based tutorial, the reader just has to copy and paste the commands.
You're right.
What happens is that for those of us who write tutorials it is much more comfortable to copy the terminal commands than to describe all the steps to do it graphically.
The terminal thing is a fallacy, especially Windows having more compiled and obscure things like the registry editor.
I already switched to GNU / Linux but now what I don't have is a decent team. What is the most recommended laptop? Which computer is the one in the input image?
The image that illustrates the article is from an image bank. I have no idea.
Now there are several models that come with Linux from the factory. My colleagues have reviewed different models of Slimbook
https://www.linuxadictos.com/?s=slimbook&submit=Buscar
Dell and Lenovo have some too.
In general everyone using Intel (from Celeron onwards) or AMD should work fine.
Define decent gear and what you want to do.
Possibly you serve what you have using a distro and graphical environment that is not very greedy.
To give you an example: Devuan with LXDE.
Unfortunately I installed several Linux and they were not compatible with all my hardware, not even with my USB wifi adapter !! They recommended a lot of things to make it work, but nothing worked. I turned aw 10 and recognized it immediately. To play around, I installed w11 on my ancient PC and it runs the same as w10, quite decent. I must admit that I only use it as a media center, vlc for watching movies and Firefox for streaming. I like Linux a lot, but neither could it with the famous driver. Greetings from Caldera, Chile.
It is very true about the hardware impositions issued by Microsoft, and the fact that with lightweight Linux distros (or older versions of Windows) you can continue to use older PCs. But to say if Linux or Windows (or another) as the only OS is difficult, they all have pros and cons. I believe in my humble opinion, that the best thing is to handle both systems, or the one in which one feels more comfortable. The hardware at some point limits, Windows 10 has an abysmal consumption, but Ubuntu 20, for example, does not work well on old computers either.
Your point of view is clearly understood and respected, but you have to keep in mind that Linux first is not just Ubuntu and second. There is no point of comparison in equipment obsolescence. In Windows they force you to update your hardware yes or yes. A clear example recently recycled a PC with a Pentium 4 and 1gb of ram by installing Debian.
Good thing I scrapped Windows a long time ago.
Microsoft has changed, they said, the funny thing about it is that as a result of all this, people came out to complain that since they use Windows, they have every right to use the system as they want and not that an evil corporation tells them how to use it , but no, Windows has a very clear EULA on the restrictions that you have as an end user when using the system, these agreements that nobody reads you accept when installing the system, and when using it, so "legally" speaking little you can complain .
Good article, I completely agree with the arguments you put forward, to always decide on linux. In my case, I have abandoned Windows 10 to use Linux Mint 20.2 Cinamon, and not because it has hardware or software limitations, but because I have found that Linux is the best decision.
Ridiculous is little ... They have been laughing in the faces of users since Satya Nadella walked through the door. I am 47 years old and started at 15 with MS-DOS; half life enduring the imbecilities and inconsistencies of this company. My team Ryzen 7 1800x TPM 1.2 RX480 AMD was left out, but that did not worry me .. I was so fed up with them that my last installed build was an Enterprise LTSC, with support for 10 years, which will now be reduced to 5 (2021). This latest imbecility from Microsoft has been the trigger; After not a few short interactions with the Linux world, now I am finally enjoying Debian Stable, and I have disposed of all that garbage (copies, licenses, supports, shutdown of "services"), everything has been destroyed. Oh, this decision would have been made twenty years earlier, it's the only thing I regret.
Greetings.
There are quite a few mistakes in the article that was clearly written by someone who is unaware of the actual operation of a system. There are other things that you may or may not be right about.
The part of the article where it is mentioned that the limitation is not by hardware but by software is totally false. A system may be better or worse optimized but even in Linux you will find that the advancement of systems will always increase their consumption, it is something logical and normal. Linux more than once has also left out many computers that have had to find a lighter or more limited distribution. In the case of Microsoft it is exactly the same, you cannot ask that a PC from the era of Windows 7 work correctly with Windows 11 just as you cannot ask that a PC from the era of should 1 work well with should 11. The comparison what you do between Ubuntu mate and raspbian is basically this that I explain. Raspbian is a very limited system in many respects to lower its resource expenditure whereas Ubuntu mate has been limited in less respects. Trying to make a PC from years old last a lifetime using the newest thing is a utopian dream and a fallacy to blame a company for it, especially when it is their product and nobody forces it to be used.
I share with them my personal experience, and I say personal because then polemics are generated between people's opinions. I used to use Windows before. I must say that I work very comfortable with 98, 2000 and xp. Although it is said that w7 had its benefits. I already knew linux but I used it exporadically, because in those windows everything went and did things there. With the arrival of Windows 8, everything changed for me. Mainly in the hardware requirement that windows with its squares on the home screen and animations caused me nausea and the new configurations did not please me. That was when I finally switched to linux. Unfortunately most people use windows, so I had the opportunity to install w10 to perform tasks in software that ordinary people use. What a terror of 3xigence. I dindt like it at all. Very, very heavy and I am talking about an i7 gamer pc with ssd and nvidia card. Since w8 appeared I became a linux user. It has its details like everything. What I liked the most is that computers fly. That machine on which I tested the w10, later to install and try than to uninstall. I have learned a lot in Linux and I see that I still have a universe to continue learning. Today on the pc I only have linux. If I need something from windows, I virtualize it, I can choose to look for the windows programs that are also in linux or some very simulate like the case of office that its similar is WPS.
One thing if I have to comment. Unfortunately most people are windows lovers. There is nothing left but to learn a little about that because then they ask you or ask you for some technical advice. Personally, I am very comfortable with linux, I no longer have to wait to play a game of chess while the computer starts up, finishes making its updates or gets stuck in some process. Greetings and thanks to the author of this post for sharing the space and keeping us up to date.
I switched to linux about 4 years ago and it is the best thing I could do with the PC. I consider the terminal a quite powerful tool, it is easy to learn. In Linux it is only to get the point the same as if you migrate to IOS ... You find applications for practically everything, the customization options are endless, it is true that you can open WS applications but I prefer to always use the Linux alternatives. Although for me the best of all is that you do not have to format the PC continuously, there are no annoying updates and you practically forget about the virus issue. Honestly, many years ago WS stopped being what it once was, I have been fixing, playing and working with PCs for more than 20 years and today Linux is the best option.
Linux has its pro's but for desktop the truth that there are many reasons not to resort to it in my opinion it continues to send on servers and mobiles, although linux users do not want to admit it, linux is also full of bugs more than all graphics and no longer Can you say that it is because of the drivers because in some distros some things fail that in others they do not, one day I will find a more objective linuxero that does not act in a sectarian way wanting an old pc to work in a modern OS? Their elbow itches so much (stinginess)? They have seriously tried Linux on an old PC, they forgot that Linux manages the ram worse than Windows? While I'm going to see how they go with the le9 patch, by the way I don't defend Windows but at the level of ux and ui mac osx has children of all, linux in ux better still not measure it.
The natural course of the free market will trigger a protection of privacy and free choice of functionalities within operating systems in the way that Linux allows it today, but without giving up all the potential offered by the market incentive ( other than free software). It is something that will take time but it is inevitable.
Regarding this post, I stopped reading in this line: «down there you have the comment form to say that you do not install Windows 11, because Linux is better». I am bored by self-defined absolute reflections.
Well, on a pentium 4 I have Devuan LXDE and it is going to be a scandal, and it is the modern version.
It has these characters who walk their veneration to Microsoft to accuse linuxers of sectarianism in a GNU / Linux forum.
How long does it take to have the pringao cuñao to solve the problems of Windows.
I promise next time to clarify that it is a joke when I make a joke.
I don't think there is such a thing as a "free market." The choice is not between the bad and the less bad. In my case, personally, I can say that today I shot Microsoft and tomorrow I will shoot Google. That is my goal to conquer freedom.
Greetings.
In April 2020 my PC died, I bought a notebook with Windows 10 pre-installed out of necessity and decided to give Linux a try. With an 83 gigabyte disk rescued from the garbage plus the hard on which windows 10 did not allow me to use, I installed Xubuntu 18.04, since then I have not seen a technician to solve problems, I install, uninstall, update (Xubuntu 20.04), I work, I browse, I send emails, etc. I have more speed, better audio and video in my old machine (12 years old) with Xubuntu than in the new notebook with Windows 10. I cannot play because my pc does not have the possibility of virtualuzar, I must update BIOS which I have not done yet, I've had about 12 web pages open + Gimp + Inkscape + LibreOffice all simultaneously. The terminal is a nice challenge, I hardly use the software center, I loved apt, I have made mistakes and I was able to correct them, the thing is that today at my 60 years and thanks to Linux and free software I am studying Programming.
You fans talk a lot of stupid things. Microsoft is not forcing you to do anything. You have the power to decide if you want Windows 11 or not. It's that easy. You don't want to, change. The problem with people is that they always want to have the latest versions of everything before anyone else.
“Microsoft is not forcing you to do anything. You have the power to decide if you want Windows 11 or not. »………… .JAJAJAJAJAJAAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA.
Tell me if it forces users to switch Windows when they stop giving you support and security updates.
You do't know what you are talking about.
It is forcing users to change the hardware, is that not enough ?, because in 2025 it leaves them without support. If I buy a «Pepe» brand coffee maker, the «Pepe» brand cannot come and tell me that it is letting me supply cartridges and that I find my life.
Who will install Windows 11?
TPM
What a wrong article. I want to make a video call from the WhatsApp app. In linux I can't. I want to use my token to digitally sign a pdf, I don't know can. In windows I have everything configured while in Linux I have to spend hours doing it. I am an end user, I do not need to use the terminal or anything, only that what I have works and well. Windows fulfills all of these functions. Let's put fanaticism aside. They are two OS created for different things and destinations
Curious your comment. You can't put more topics in less space. Terminal? There are terminals in linux and in windows. They are an efficient and fast tool to automate actions through scripts and save time. Of course, to use it you have to be an advanced user in both one system and another. For users like you, both Linux and Windows have graphical interfaces that "facilitate" your work. "In windows I have everything configured." Congratulations, you have the same default tastes as MS. You are the classic user whom I recommend to companies to "keep an eye on." About using WhatsApp on Linux ... well, there has to be everything under the sun.
Dear, your comment is curious too. "Congratulations, you have the same default tastes as MS." I have the likes of someone who wants to use the computer, and do what I do day to day with the same productivity that I do it daily, I cannot waste time virtualizing, -for example applications-. As an end user, I have little or no interest in the terminal as “… an efficient and fast tool to automate actions through scripts and save time”. Linux unfortunately has many desktops but unfortunately few software options, the fact that Windows applications have to be virtualized proves me right. I am not a fan of Windows or Linux if another OS appears tomorrow and overcomes these problems without a doubt I will go there. You can spend hours discussing something nonsensical but unfortunately your fanaticism carries the problem that all "isms" have with it, after all, what is the problem if a person feels more productive in Windows than in Linux? Goodbye dear.
I am speaking for the experience. As said by the last user, of course one thing is what we would like, and another is what we are forced by the reality of the world we live in.
All options must be respected. Each person has needs, some are common and others are not.
I'm a graphic designer, but I've been a programmer at other times.
And also a common user of the heap, like everyone at some point.
At the dawn of computing, I don't know his name, but someone said something like that it is the needs that we have that force us to make changes and adapt things to continue.
I explain. For a common user, Linux is a fantastic option when it comes to everything: from performance to freedom of choice in everything.
For a creative, or specialized user no. And not out of philosophy, which is surely yes. Not because there are NO quality APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE in Linux. You have to work with the necessary tools, and if they are not in one place, they look elsewhere, like everything in life.
For a programmer, well, yes or no, depending on the side of the tortilla you prefer. But it is a YES in general to Linux. You will find everything you need and more for your own.
What I wanted to say before someone said a long time ago (I think he was one of the first programmers, CP / M era), is that it does not matter what tools we use, what system, what final presentation. Whoever is going to use our programs will decide if the end result of their experience makes them happy. Does not matter how.
The problem is that when it is not a whistle it is a flute. Drivers are always missing and in many cases very difficult to install.
But… .if Microsoft has changed, I don't understand, it is no longer M $ or Balmer's cookie monster or Allen's philanthropist, now it is a serious company that respects open source.
Well or so I heard!
Excellent article, it created that more than one is afraid of the change, but for me there is a very great evolution with the distributions or flavors of GNU_Linux. I have been testing the different derivatives for ten years and to date they are on par with Windows 10 or 11, it is worth it "YES" and more if your desktop PC or your laptop does not meet the minimum or recommended requirements for installation. In GNU_Linux you can choose the flavor or the distribution that is most useful to you, you will find many applications that you can install and test, you can also customize it to your liking ... Why pay for something you do not have the right to access the code to improve it when you can do with GNU_Linux, also if you want you can voluntarily donate to the community so that the projects continue to evolve and provide better benefits. test it in virtual machines without installing and look for the one they consider best for their work or day to day ... the changes are also good …….
The title is misspelled. In this case "why" is not separated, but together: "why".
Certain. I'll correct it in a while. Thanks
I have been using PCs since 91, there is nothing! The first versions of Linux were insufferable! Starting the starx was an odyssey. Today it is an OS that any home user can use, now there are things in which Linux is still a Christ, but not because of the system itself but because of the manufacturers that do not provide drivers! For example printers or graphics drivers (shame on AMD and a 10 for Nvidia), even so Linux is recommended for browsing, watching movies or videos and doing it on modest computers and if you have graphics NVidia Steam goes without problems! So also to play, everything is daring and experiencing change.
The only thing that catches my attention is how they want to continue using old PCs, I don't know if the linux press is so like that, but I prefer to use machines with higher specifications than my cell phone. I have used Linux for years and it has never been at the height of Windows for me, always with driver problems or something that makes you resort to the terminal. I use Windows for my work, programming in the .NET framework and we even use Office 365, no tool reaches the height of office automation, or development (in my area, stock brokers and banks) to Microsoft, not even in terms of entertainment (PC games). I give it to you about the networks, but that's not my area. Greetings.
We are talking about computers that are no more than 10 years old and that could work perfectly with Windows 11 if Microsoft did not put artificial limitations
I use ubuntu, but until they improve the graphical environment common people will continue to think of it. Example, quite an odyssey to create a shortcut in ubuntu 20