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You can install W11 on older hardware via some cmd commands during installation.
The ones that I've done this to, as tests, all received Windows Updates happily enough.
Obviously you need to spend a ton on a brand new sparkly PC though
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I'm sure I tried this in the past and it failed for some reason but I'll need to find the workarounds and have another go. I know I fixed the unsupported CPU thing in the past but that must've been before the boot SSD died and I had to reinstall Windows. I did that again and it has one less error but the TPM and something else still complain. Do you have a link to the TPM workaround? I'll go google now...
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirement
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What about these add-on TPM2.0 modules? If I could find one of those, I wonder if that would work...
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte-gc-tpm-20-trusted-platform-module-compute-securely
hippy
Still trying to work out what to do with my Win 10 machine. It has less than a year of Windows support and doesn't have the TPM2.0 shit that Win11 needs (I think there might be a way around that but then it's unsupported and might not receive updates?
I was going to ditch it and get another laptop instead but it seems a waste of some good kit (it's a spendy Quiet PC build).
I could swap out the mobo and CPU and everything but that's a massive faff that I've got no time for.
"You can't re-use the Nofan cooler these days but the PSU, case, sound card, 2.5" SSD, Wi-Fi card and even the RAM can all be re-used. You would however need a new DDR motherboard, processor and a suitable CPU cooler (though in that case, I suspect it would need to be fanned)."
I could install a flavour of linux but that doesn't help with most of my Windows based stuff. It would cover 90% of what I do though and I have a work laptop I could use (but eew)
What would Jesus do?