• Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    MANY devices have hardware that’s just outright not supported by windows 11. Even CPUs just a few years old aren’t supported. I don’t own a single device that supports Windows 11, and my stuff isn’t exactly ancient. I imagine poorer countries have resold/used hardware in the majority of cases that aren’t new enough for it

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      11 months ago

      It’s only in place upgrades that are really affected by that. You can still do a clean install on quite old hardware.

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      11 months ago

      My last laptop I bought with the top of the line latest CPU at that time, and Windows 10 on it. I think originally that processor wasn’t even going to be supported by anything older than 10, which created a big stink at the time.

      That proc generation isn’t supported by 11, so really, it was only ever a Windows 10 processor.

      I’m generally okay with ending hardware support at some point, but that was really quick to cut off something like the processor that could easily have 10+ years of usable life.