The issue is that it’s got an AMD A-4 dual core processor; the computer is worth every bit of the $200 I paid for it new off the shelf. It will run pretty much any single process but trying to run two things at once is problematical, and it’s very slow to boot up or load programs. And updates are a nightmare. I did try Puppy on it, but even that was frustrating. I’d rather try to upgrade the 15 or so year old machine than this one, but I have some old programs on it that I don’t know if they would run under Win11, so I’ll leave that one on 10 as well.
Frankly, if MS let me downgrade to XP on the two machines, I’d be willing to give that a try.
Win11 is just an effort to force new hardware on everyone; I expect anyone that can explain what’s in the new hardware that the government wants is under an NDA, so there is that.
You can run Windows XP in a virtual machine quite easily to run old software. I have a licensed version of Windows XP installed in a virtual machine. And I have old computers that still have Windows XP... because I never throw any computer hardware out. I have what is basically a museum.
But using Windows XP is a bit of a frustrating experience because you, like me have probably gotten used to some of the niceties that later versions of Windows provide.
“Win11 is just an effort to force new hardware....”
Not being into gaming and having a $1000+ video card, [or being a bitcoin “miner”] I’m very unclear on what new hardware and s/w is going to do for me.