You are a very decent human being and I mean that fully but microsoft really doesn't mind if you slip around their prerequisites, you can follow their instructions here if you wish to install Win11 on the up and up
support.microsoft.com
Microsoft gave up ... a while ago there were rumors on news sites on the web, who installed the windows 11 on computers without meeting the necessary requirements, would not receive updates. Of course, this may have been a scare tactic forcing users to buy a new computer. So I relaxed and let it go for a while.You are a very decent human being and I mean that fully but microsoft really doesn't mind if you slip around their prerequisites, you can follow their instructions here if you wish to install Win11 on the up and up
Windows 11 on devices that don't meet minimum system requirements - Microsoft Support
Installing Windows 11 on devices that do not meet minimum system requirements is unsupported and is not recommended by Microsoft.
Yes, exactly and I would add that they mean well, not only do you have a new computer, fresh and lively but you support the economy with your purchase so it isn't a black and white issue always, it's good for business all around. I ran an older computer with the work arounds that didn't meet the Win 11 requirements for several months with no issues at all, it updated as usual and I noticed no negative impact of any kind but you follow your gut, it will "most of the time" serve you well.
So I have to test it one day, suddenly W11 might even be better than W10. Whenever Microsoft released a new window, I was eager to test it, it was like that since WinXP. Sometimes I installed it on physical machines and sometimes on virtual machines. But due to TPM and the new requirements, W11 was the only window I did not use. The others I tested and used all from W1.0 to W10 for some window servers.
I passed on Win11 for it did not bring anything new on the table. Tbh, my laptop does not meet the “requirements” for win11 and Win10 is working flawlessly here, so why bother to upgrade?
I'm of a similar persuasion. I've run W11 in VMs, which is not the same as using it as a fully installed version, but it gives an idea of the capabilities and I've used it on devices that are not my personal ones. Some people really like it, we're all different and we all have a wide variety of experiences, uses and reasons to base those views on. W10 was going to be a constantly evolving OS, I thought, then we got W11, which seemed like it was going to be the same. Now a mirage of W12 seemingly lurks over the horizon. I agree on what you say about 'finishing what they started' - MS can't seem to settle on a solid foundation to build that evolving OS on for the long term IMO.
There’s no difference, you’ll still get a broken OS.
But its not really " half-baked" . There has to be billions of different computer configurations if you take into account different hardware and software variations , and Windows works well on most of them. I find that pretty amazing.
True, considering the range of permutations of hardware that Windows runs on, it is quite a feat. But it could be so much better, surely. Or is this another one of those quandaries, as in the everlasting light-bulb(OS) is always a few steps away, because there is only a finite profit in that business course?
There is a guy on YT that showed that there is still code from W98 present in W11. He also shed some light on the inconsistencies in design in Windows. Many things look out of place. What about the old Explorer? Windows update issues?
Maybe, but why should I care if there is code from W98, all I care is that it works, I hardly ever use Explorer and rarely have update issues on my 12 year old desktop., which for now works perfectly and boots in under 30 seconds.
