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Windows 11 - "How low can you go?" - it's a LOT higher than for W10! :(
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<blockquote data-quote="Fisty McB" data-source="post: 1140824" data-attributes="member: 389824"><p>The link in that article is 15 months ago, so not exactly new information. Also, while W11 can run on most PCs even where they don't meet the standard requirements that Microsoft sets, they warn of a lack of possible updates and driver compatibility.</p><p></p><p>Over the Christmas & New Year period I had an opportunity to upgrade both my main computer & laptop. The main PC was dual-booted originally for LM20 & W10 but a dumb blonde moment with the LM20 OS meant a new OS install was required so I upgraded W10 to W11 and installed a new LM21.1 image. Haven't messed about too much with Windows 11, but it seems to work okay with my setup though I have moved the task bar icons back to the left from the centre, just out of habits dying hard! Linux Mint is the OS I've been largely using on the main PC for a few years now and is my daily driver - I'm having a bit of pain getting Samba to work well but other than that it's fine. I only really stumble back to Windows on the machine if I either need to use software that won't run on Linux Mint (and there's no comparable alternative), or to download updates to keep it healthy.</p><p></p><p>The laptop, which is over 8 years old, got a nice wee upgrade when I spotted a Kingston 480GB SSD on Amazon for £28 - the HDD drive in that was slowing the whole system to a crawl when things like updates or virus/trojan checker software was happening even with 12GB of RAM. The SSD has made a great difference from booting to the overall user experience, though I did have to install a brand new W10 OS on to the SSD, as my hard drive copier wasn't playing ball for whatever reason - not too much bother as I don't really use the laptop for anything critical and there wasn't too many programs that I had to reinstall. Had to stick with W10 however as a W11 compatibility check showed an incompatible CPU, but that should be fine for another 2+ years at least assuming the laptop keeps going that long and if at that point W10 goes unsupported, there's always popular Linux OS's waiting in the wings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fisty McB, post: 1140824, member: 389824"] The link in that article is 15 months ago, so not exactly new information. Also, while W11 can run on most PCs even where they don't meet the standard requirements that Microsoft sets, they warn of a lack of possible updates and driver compatibility. Over the Christmas & New Year period I had an opportunity to upgrade both my main computer & laptop. The main PC was dual-booted originally for LM20 & W10 but a dumb blonde moment with the LM20 OS meant a new OS install was required so I upgraded W10 to W11 and installed a new LM21.1 image. Haven't messed about too much with Windows 11, but it seems to work okay with my setup though I have moved the task bar icons back to the left from the centre, just out of habits dying hard! Linux Mint is the OS I've been largely using on the main PC for a few years now and is my daily driver - I'm having a bit of pain getting Samba to work well but other than that it's fine. I only really stumble back to Windows on the machine if I either need to use software that won't run on Linux Mint (and there's no comparable alternative), or to download updates to keep it healthy. The laptop, which is over 8 years old, got a nice wee upgrade when I spotted a Kingston 480GB SSD on Amazon for £28 - the HDD drive in that was slowing the whole system to a crawl when things like updates or virus/trojan checker software was happening even with 12GB of RAM. The SSD has made a great difference from booting to the overall user experience, though I did have to install a brand new W10 OS on to the SSD, as my hard drive copier wasn't playing ball for whatever reason - not too much bother as I don't really use the laptop for anything critical and there wasn't too many programs that I had to reinstall. Had to stick with W10 however as a W11 compatibility check showed an incompatible CPU, but that should be fine for another 2+ years at least assuming the laptop keeps going that long and if at that point W10 goes unsupported, there's always popular Linux OS's waiting in the wings. [/QUOTE]
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