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Microsoft Reverses "Non-Negotiable" TPM 2.0 Requirement for Windows 11 as Windows 10 Faces Phase-Out - Techopse - Trading Enthusiasm for Anger (www.techopse.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can still do that, the article is fucking stupid. If you don't have the correct requirements you will never get Windows 11 officially. You can however create a custom install of Win 11 using tools like Rufus to bypass the TPM requirements.

The point of the change is that now if you install it on an unsupported machine, you won't get any official support; they're not stopping you from messing with the OS installer but you will still NOT get the upgrade officially and if you do upgrade and find some issue they ain't helping you.

IIRC they used to pester users with this unsupported setup to upgrade to a correct setup and they won't do that any more.

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

I don’t want Windows 11. It performs like shit. But I guarantee this will lead to sneaky upgrades.