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  • 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?

  • If you use Rufus to make the usb installer from a W11 iso it'll prompt you to make an installer with out any of the stupid requirements as well as disabling all the telemetry and need to make an account with a Microsoft account

  • I think that's how I'll end up going. I've got a TPM chip on the way so I'm going to see if that helps anything.

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