Tech Corner

[jaylach]

You can't believe everything you read from third parties...

Very true but I actually remember Microsoft making the statement that 10 would be ongoing with no end of life. Now I'm sure that there is probably something in the EULA to enable them to change their stance...

 

[anewbie]

Very true but I actually remember Microsoft making the statement that 10 would be ongoing with no end of life. Now I'm sure that there is probably something in the EULA to enable them to change their stance...

They discovered something call secure boot and decided to FORCE every user to use it one way or the other hence windows 11. They could have just added an option to windows 10 to support secure boot but all no - everyone in usa wants a new computer.

 

[jaylach]

They discovered something call secure boot and decided to FORCE every user to use it one way or the other hence windows 11. They could have just added an option to windows 10 to support secure boot but all no - everyone in usa wants a new computer.

Actually Secure Boot along with TPM are not controlled by Windows 11 other than to detect. Both checks can be turned off with registry hacks that Microsoft actually published for OEM makers. Actually the CPU compliance can also be turned off. The CPU check can be turned off and still allow an upgrade install but, both, the TPM and Secure Boot hacks have to be done with a clean install.

TPM and Secure Boot are features of your BIOS and not something included in Windows. I personally think the TPM and Secure Boot checks are garbage as it should be up to the user to decide security.

 

[MaloK]

It's when... Red Hat (RHEL) Enterprise, started to deal with it.
Now Fedora and even Mint leverages the asses with signed boot loaders.

This is no longer a Microsoft thing. It's a world wide compliance.

 

[Colin_T]

Are you in USA? As for computers - i personally been blessed with building my own since 1996 so they usually last 7 to 15 years. In truth all you need is something like an intel nuc and linux (which is free). If you want to build a small computer you can do so but of course it depends on what you want as to cost but lap top performance would be around $500 or $700 (not cheap but not super duper expensive).

I'm in Australia and everything here costs more than the USA. The cheapest laptop here is around $400 and has a 14 inch screen and 8GB ram and 100GB HD