Posted on 10/28/2021 10:50:50 PM PDT by dayglored
BTTT!!!
As a fan of Win7 (with XP-SP3 a reasonable second), I'd say that adopting Win7 didn't require much arm-twisting either. Vista really did the trick -- first it drove tons of new-computer buyers including me to demand that the vendor pre-install XP not Vista; then after Win7 came out we breathed a sigh of relief and prepared for the day when XP would fade away.
And last year Win7 was de-supported. The last 15 years of Windows has really been a roller-coaster ride.
But it appears the axiom still holds, about every other release of Windows is good, and the rest suck. Win11 is the next "suck" release, and if it wants to beat that rap it will have to work pretty hard.
Microsoft shoulda called it "Win10 21H2". It would have gotten a much better reception over time.
nope, I tried that, no internet, it blocks minisetup from completing.
but I like the random password till it lets you go free idea
No not “because mobile”.
I just got a surface go3. it is horrible on mobile, at least for everything I have tried.
Big mistake made when I went from Windows 7 to Windows 10……….never again, you have to be a brain surgeon to figure out what the geeks were thinking.
I bought a cheap HP Win-10 laptop a few years ago—just to do tax returns, as a Win-10 machine was required by the updated annual software packages. And tax prep is all I use it for.
For all my day-to-day usage, I continue to use my old Win-7 and Linux desktops. On or off the web. So far, they work perfectly well for any tasks I want to do, on or off the web. No problems. As far as I am concerned, I will only give up my Win-7 desktop if Mr. Gates pries it from my cold dead hands.
Could you download all your knowledge onto a USB stick (you do have a USB port on the top of your head right?) and send it to me. It would save me time, although my brain might blue screen trying to comprehend even part of it! But thank God He gives believers His Spirit to comprehend things that are of God. As long as we operate with that "OS."
" But you will understand that I bristle a bit when some untrusted company or untrusted government hack tells me I have to use their "mandated trusted" hardware and/or software. "
What is not to trust from a coalition of Intel, AMD, IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco? There are all members of the LGBTQ best places to work list and Business Coalition for the Equality Act. Why would they think that content such upholds Biblical teaching on sexuality is a form of "malware." But again, the vocal opposition is much that of "widescale opposition from the free software community on the grounds that the technology they are developing has a negative impact on the users' privacy and can create customer lock-in, especially if it is used to create DRM applications. It has received criticism from the Linux and FreeBSD communities, as well as the software development community in general." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing_Group
" My present computer hardware is doing well, and may just outlive me, and I won't have to deal with the latest and greatest "mandated trusted" atrocities. :-)"
You think. I foresee a day when most all financial transactions will require TMP enabled hardware, and with the "Trust" being expanded to include ideological content. Just reading how subjective terms of major providers such as Google, MS, Verizon, Comcast in their terms of service, and which are increasingly defined as forbidding non-PC content indicates where the trajectory of ideological censorship is headed.
Related:
What it's like to get locked out of Google indefinitely
Google blocked animal rights group from blowing whistle on NIH-funded cruel dog experiments
Would that I could. :-)
God saw fit to grant me the intelligence and iniatitive to become an engineer, the talent to become a musician, and the happy circumstance of living in America where I could develop and use those abilities. For those gifts I give thanks to God every day. So while I'm proud of my accomplishments in those areas, I see myself mainly as a vessel through which God has elected to do some really cool stuff.
But alas, no USB port (on my head or elsewhere).
> I foresee a day when most all financial transactions will require TPM enabled hardware, and with the "Trust" being expanded to include ideological content.
In which case I suppose I'll have to get a computer, with TPM, for those and only those transactions. I'll access FreeRepublic and order anti-authoritarian T-shirts and read the Founding Documents on a different one. I still have the hardcopy KJV I grew up with, for when I read Scripture -- the feel of those old, thin, but precious pages helps put me in the proper frame of mind to absorb their wisdom.
In the more mundane arena, I'm used to dealing with multiple areas of security and controlled access -- working in IT/DevOps, I deal with much more complex situations of that nature every day, so it comes second-nature. E.g. My Win7 VM was disconnected from the internet two years ago for security reasons, but it's still useful so it runs in a protected enclave. It's only mildly annoying to have one computer for this, and another for that.
As for the heavy hand of the Big Tech companies, I tell myself to be patient. The current mess is unstable and unsustainable. It will come crashing down eventually, probably after my time on Earth has ended, but I do believe the current horrors can't and won't last forever. There will be a Great Reset, but it won't be the one the globalists are planning, and God willing, the human race will recover and go forward, in some different way.
But apparently not enough coffee yet today. :-)
It’s hilarious how every time there’s a new Windows there’s this chunk of the press that does nothing but say adoption rate is really slow and people aren’t doing it. And yet we know by the time the next version comes out almost everybody will be on 11.
Yep!
I use Oracle Virtual PC and have Windows 10 installed on it.
I could not install Windows 11 as I do not have TPM. I recently bought a TPM module for my gigabyte motherboard from 2015 but it was not detected as the bios cannot be updated anymore.
I followed the directions here from #22 and it worked. I now have Windows 11 installed.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4006912/posts
The first one below did not work for me by itself.
The easy way to install Windows 11 on unsupported CPUs
https://www.theverge.com/22715331/how-to-install-windows-11-unsupported-cpu-intel-amd-registry-regedit
I did Option 1 and Option 2 and that let me install Window 11
How to install Windows 11 without TPM 2.0
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/10/05/how-to-install-windows-11-without-tpm-2-0/
Thank you for a detailed answer, but from my understanding you can install it on everything but the problem is future support.
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