Not sure if you're unaware that Linux is actually pretty good for gaming these days, thanks to Proton.
Why not make the jump if windows irks you this much?
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Microsoft will make the official announcement of Windows 11 today
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Not sure if you're unaware that Linux is actually pretty good for gaming these days, thanks to Proton.
Why not make the jump if windows irks you this much?
Windows has been pretty open for a long time. Yeah it has its issues but I can always find software that does what the big software does and install it without hurdles. Yeah sometimes I have to just hit yes to install cause it's not from a "trusted" source but that's a security and safety feature which is fair.
Yeah i didn't see anything about TPM in my Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero X570 mobo's BIOS. I have UEFI Secure Boot active.
Seems like it will be easy to ward off Windows 11 until people are comfortable upgrading. Just don't enable TPM 2.0 and you are good. I don't see how they win that war though if they want the vast majority of people to upgrade since most people will never venture into their bios.
Sure it's fragmented a bit, but it works, and is very customizable to what you need.
The inconsistent UI is true, cleaning up some of the old things would be nice, my problem is the new UI is too dumbed down, I say go back to the old control panel. But, on the other hand, something like MacOS is consistent but it's like using Windows 3.1 . I use it for work and I HATE it. Everything takes more keyboard keys (most shortcuts are like 3 key presses vs 2 in windows). No built in windows snap (like, what year is this).
Just out of curiosity, what kind of bugs do you see regularly?
Well, the official requirements cite TPM 2.0, still, I'll wait till a build is actually out there before turning anything on that might be weird
Well, they are a 2 trillion company specially because they learned that they don't need to sell you shit, since you are going to be their product.
This doesn't fix the major issue with the store: AppX UWP apps are broken and corrupt themselves making themselves unuseable and locking their corrupted files into a directory that you can't delete them from. All I heard is there is an option now for developers to use win32, but the standard still seems to be UWP. Definitely for first party.
I haven't heard a single thing about them fixing the UWP app corruption issue. They have never even acknowledged it.
I'm doubting that the storage space being 64 GB is minimal. It should be more like 128 GB, considering that you will have "Windows.old" folder being created before the user gets to delete that folder for more storage space.
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yeah they contribute to linux primarily for their azure departments - but stuff like directx is locked down. it will be transformative to have this open source
They tried it and it made the system really unstable. I imagine it will make a comeback once Sun-Valley does some modernization on a lot of the system tools.
Turned on Intel PTT, which gave me TPM on my Z390 mobo. That let me pass the eligibility thing.
I honestly feel like they communicated pretty much nothing actually new lol. Is windows 11 "just" a new taskbar and 2-3 features i'll barely use (snap stuff)? I would love to see if there's a new explorer, what the settings look like, if there's any improvements on the destop itself, stuff like that.
On Mac there's just barely support for keyboard-main users. There's some shortcuts here and there, sure. But for example I wiped and installed Big Sur the other day on an older mac for a friend. Didn't have an extra mouse lying around, but figured what would I need a mouse for, really? Turns out, there's several screens during the install process that cannot be navigated with keyboard only. No tab, no space, enter. Nada. You MUST use a mouse when installing and setting up Mac. Silly thing to complain about, but it was a pain. Little things like that around Mac make it less usable. Unlike Windows, it's just not an OS designed with keyboard primary users in mind.
This will definitely give a lot of smaller developers a platform for getting their apps safely to users, with their own commerce engines and free to use any technology or packaging they want.
With AMD, you're looking for something called 'fTPM' for the built-in TPM.
But like people say, the TPM requirement might end up being dropped, as getting non-technical people to go rooting round their firmware settings to toggle an obscure setting is a recipe for disaster.
Mine is under Settings > Miscellaneous. Asus, I think, has it under Security.
The world was different back then. If the same antitrust positions would exist today, Apple would be fired into the sun.
It wasn't.. Finally found it, it was AMD fTPM.. It was set to Discrete TPM by default, had to change it to firmware.
Now the health checker says Windows 11 will work on my PC. Thanks!
i can switch from from tpm discrete to tpm firmware. Says don't work with any of them.
While they might change course, unless they remove the requirement from the checker app ASAP no machine, except business ones that have it enabled by default, will be deemed eligible. That's a big fuckup on Microsoft's end, most users will see their PC is not compatible right now.
I just hate that MS starts building new stuff, redesign everything all the time and now we get the next layer of paint on top of the current one that's not even full applied yet. It's infuriating imo. I stumble across all this all the time and can't believe 80% of Windows looks and feels like it does.
My biggest problem with Windows is external screens and scaling. I have to fix that almost every time my ThinkPad goes to sleep. Rearrange everything, reset the scaling, IT'S TERRIBLE.
Scaling also sucks for lots of apps, and while I really thank MS for their efforts with WSL 2, it takes ages for them to fix stuff and add much needed features like the GUI support.
Recently the taskbar started bugging out, it just doesn't show anything anymore then or or or... my list is long and I don't feel like spending too much time on this haha
So I'll return to MacOS once the new M1x/M2 machines are out and my employer is in the mood of buying me one ;)
I mean, I have a mouse, but, it's just so much quicker to do most things with your keyboard.
Have you changed any settings in the Registry? I had a similar message when I had done some edits there.
Didn't they literally just say they are fixing external screen and docking so that when you replug in a device, it recalls exactly how it was when you unplugged it?
Take a good look at DX12 and its adoption rate (Windows 10 was also a free upgrade from Win 8/Win7). DX12 came out in 2015 and after six whole years we still have DX11-only games (so that they can run on more operating systems). By limiting DirectStorage to Win11, a lot of developers won't be using it (unless all DX12 gamers are using Win11 which will take several years).
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because Windows is better at gaming even with Proton.
edit: I don't think the Unity Editor even exists with Windows?
And that's not even taking the business market into account. Not every company is going to want to upgrade their laptops if they don't support TPM 2.0 in order to run Windows 11.
Not remotely the same. I guess apple forcing you to have an apple ID or google forcing you to have a google account to use android makes you not use a smartphone then? There are a lot of advantages with using a connected account for sign in. You can set up a system for recovering passwords, you can use passwordless authentication, you can improve the customer experience of moving between devices etc. Microsoft's reasoning is sound.
If you used any software like Shutup10 to disable telemetry or you have edited group policies you are going to get that message. It means nothing in that case.
It'll 100% be an option. Although, because I use an ultrawide, I'm quite happy to be able to move icons to the centre.
Though I have to admit, I've never heard anyone ever complain about the macOS dock being centred and not fixed to the left...
No expanded task bar looks lame. I don't use it as a launcher. I want to be able to switch to specific windows with 1 click not more. Still not sold on the Start Menu. Seems inferior in every way compared to the current one.
yup already confirmed to be a setting when the earlier build leaked.
I have no idea what TPM is, but my motherboard (MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC) manual says it has a 14 pin TPM connector and it seems MSI sells TPM plug in modules? Does this mean I'd need to hunt down some dumb obscure add-on that isn't sold in my country, is discontinued and will probably be out of stock in like 20 mins from now to upgrade? Because if so, all I can do is laugh.