Re: Why extend Windows 10's life when Windows 11 could do just fine
Precisely, I've been running Windows 11 directly on Skylake hardware, which is nearly exactly the same as Kaby Lake in anything that an OS would care about and I'm also running the very latest Windows 11 just fine on Haswell and Broadwell Xeons under KVM as a hypervisor. With GPU (and USB) pass-through I even get it to run game at native performance on Windows 11.
Just proves those checks are completely arbitary and nothing but planned obsolescence in cahoots with Intel and AMD.
Microsoft needs to be broken up and the OS part (among others) spun off into a separate company under strict guidance not to create artificial obsolescence.
Perhaps it's ok to let go 32-bit x86 today, but anything 64-bit should run Windows and there is no reason a TPM should be required, especially since not everyone even wants to encrypt their disks.
I much prefer mine movable between systems and easy to copy and always disable it.
And with Windows 12 M$ is likely to go even further in terms of obsolescence and integrating ever more AI backdoors when they are already acting as if they owned your Personal Computer.
Apple users may be happy to give up any right to self-determination to their iNanny, but when I hire a janitor or property manager for my PC (that's what on OS is) I don't want him to run my life or report on me to his agency. I just expect him to do the job he was hired for and not get smart on me!