[The Antiyuppie]

I have a laptop that was very expensive and top of the line in 2017. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have TPMS 2.0 and the CPU, although very fast, isn’t “approved”. There are ways to get Windows 11 on this laptop without those things, but it may degrade security and MS may on a whim stop updating it if I do. So, I might buy a used Win11 laptop and put Linux on the older machine. I have software the requires Windows and I just can’t get rid of it yet/cut the Windows 10 machine off the network.

Or, I might just get a very powerful laptop, put Linux on it, and run Windows 10 on it un-networked in a VM.

These days, I would NEVER operate an unsupported machine/OS on a network or introduce new un-scanned software on it.

[dennisw]

This guy sells lots of used laptops eBay -— That are “eBay refurbished”

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=prycedin&store_cat=0&store_name=prycedin&_oac=1&_nkw=hp%2017.3%20%20i5

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

“Unfortunately, it doesn’t have TPMS 2.0 ...”

Have you checked your BIOS? Your computer may have TPMS 2.0 but it was never enabled. If it does, the only way to enable it is in BIOS. There are also a few other BIOS settings that need to be changed to allow win 11. You may be surprised.

A search will give me all settings but I haven’t waded through BIOS in over a decade. I’ll try it soon and report back here. Just don’t want to turn the machine into a doorstop. I think that my computer is near being able for win 11 with the changes.