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Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Have you ever had Windows break so badly that you had to burn an install disk...

As a programmer, yes under Windows 3.0 I could crash the computer so hard that the only way to recover was to reformat the hard disk. It got progressively better in later versions and everything from Windows 2000 has been virtually uncrashable.

My most recent hard crash was when I had a VM, two Minecraft instances and Firefox all open at the same time and Windows ran out of memory (so I upgraded from 32GB to 64GB). It does make me wonder why some of that didn't get swapped out though.