IHawkMike

This was an amazing and informative answer. Thank you.

Yeah Win11 will probably be a noticeable performance hit on that. Especially Explorer which they made dog slow when adding tabs and the new context menu.

The Office apps and browser will probably be about the same.

I'm running Windows 11 on a 12 year old X79 platform. Runs just fine.

But it was definitely top of the line in its day and 48GB of RAM keeps any system relatively snappy.

Look man, this is just exhausting. I'm well aware of that security policy. I have enabled it at some of my clients. But it's not a default setting and would never be on a random non-enterprise PC. This is what I mean when I say the only people who are getting locked out this way were screwing with their computers in ways they don't understand, installing random garbage and following bad advice on the internet.

From your link:

If you set the value to 0, or leave blank, the computer or device will never be locked as a result of this policy setting.

I don't care what you think. I'm playing chess with a pigeon here. Test it yourself.

Edit: And sorry for being a jerk. Back to my original point, I'm pretty much fed up with the "technical" communities of Lemmy where correct information is downvote to oblivion and blatantly wrong information is lionized as absolute truth. And when I have tried to actually help and provide useful information I get met with the hordes of confidently incorrect people trying to discredit me.

That's the BitLocker PIN, not the OS PIN. Go away.

Bitlocker activates when you enter an incorrect OS password too many times.

This is completely false. Please stop spreading misinformation. You clearly have no idea how BitLocker works, nor Secure Boot, BCD, TPM, or PCRs. Or anything really.

Maybe you should stick to an iPad. I'm done replying to this blithering nonsense.

I'm actually 46.

Here's a cookie:

Bitlocker activated because of an OS update

This did not happen. You did something to enable it.

I don't have an MS account, because I have no need to give MS all of my data

If you had one, all of your data would have been safe in OneDrive and easily recoverable. But I'm sure the irony is completely lost on all the anti-MS people here. Nah, it must be Microsoft's fault you didn't have backups when you broke your tablet.

They're not dark patterns. You kids love throwing that term at everything. They're simply secure defaults because the average user doesn't change defaults. And "continuously?" Please. 🙄