Yep! turned my parents' antique Win8 on a HDD and 4g of ram laptop that took 20mins to boot and be usable into a pretty decent and snappy lightweight writing platform for schlepping to the library/coffee shop for writing with Fedora (and an SSD).
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Win 8? That's practically new. I have 32-bit machines designed for XP that run fine on MX instead. Then again I have a Win 10 machine that for some reason wouldn't upgrade to 11 (not that 11 is any improvement) that someone thought was going to be a brick.
cause W11 "demands" A MASSIVE LOT" of the device to be run there
I have my old laptop - that one I brought up to W7 (from there it was IMHO downhill)
bought a notebook to take with me on trips that "came" with W10 I hate it (every update fucks up something)
but I can't risk atm anything
If the chipset on the laptop doesn’t have a physical TPM chip it won’t run w11. Security. Talking of, have you ever approached your work IT and proposed any of this?
You can definitely bypass the TPM requirement for installing Windows 11. Rufus has the ability to bypass TPM as a built in option when flashing a USB drive.
So, you can't run Windows 11 on say, a machine built for Windows 98? I don't want it then. I have a secure OS on one that runs fine, without locking me into some proprietary software company, that says you can't reverse engineer, give away, modify, etc. their poor software.
I'm retired. I AM my IT department. And I don't use Windows, if I can help it, so it's a moot point anyway. The latest laptop was my wife's (gone now over a year) and I'll just wipe Windows 10 off there when I'm ready, and upgrading it to Linux of my choice.
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I have my old laptop - that one I brought up to W7 (from there it was IMHO downhill)
bought a notebook to take with me on trips that "came" with W10 I hate it (every update fucks up something)
but I can't risk atm anything