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Windows 11 24H2 to enforce hardware requirement - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 9 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 29 points 9 months ago (25 children)

Even less reasons to move on from Windows 10, nice!

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 8 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Switch to Linux

[–] chameleon@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This is also going to affect Linux distros, many are moving to x86-64-v2 or even v3. That comes with the same requirements this Win11 build is going to enforce.

There's plenty of life left in some of the later hardware not on the official Win11 support list, but hardware old enough to be excluded by this build is really overdue for retirement and/or being considered retrocomputing.

[–] far_university1990@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

Many distro seem to go with „one package v3/v2, one for earlier pc“ and make package manager install correct one. So no „cant use on old hardware“ impact.

Also linux runs on 30+ year old hardware, not gonna change that now.

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Considering Debian still ships 32bit, this likely won’t affect my distro of choice.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That makes sense, but remember that security patches are backported to old kernels for quite a long time. Therefore, using an LTS release of Linux should extend a computer's life longer than Windows.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What in the world are yall running machines this old for? Literally a $50 modern computer would be an improvement, and would likely more than quarter the energy requirement.

Just because you can still run 20 year old hardware, doesn’t mean you should.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

I’m not running anything old, just kinda trolling a bit and being an annoyance about Linux.

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