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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The technical requirements for 11 were reasonable when it came out and even more so today. Laptops being ewaste when they were built that way isn't Microsoft's fault.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The technical requirements for 11 were reasonable

My 8700k (from 2018) disagrees.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're the ones that keep making the requirements more and more unreasonable with every update.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What is unreasonable about 4 gb of ram, a processor made in the last decade, and a tpm chip? Even Linux doesn't run well under 8, let alone 4, because linux's memory management and handling of low memory is a catastrophic embarrassment. (Yes it uses less idle, but you get to 80% and the system will lock up)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Linux runs just fine in 4. Or much less. It depends a lot on what you use it for. My 486 had a whooping 32 Megs of memory and ran Linux just fine.

Regarding MS, the main problem is the changing of the goalpost. And I'm not so sure there's even any point to the whole TPM thing anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

The TPM chip is the issue here, and not a requirement under Linux.