Recent content by AK6DN

Yeah but as listed in post #26 most of the purported benefits of TPM 2.0 I don't use or don't care about. So TPM 1.2 is fine by me.

Meant to say 'Funny how Win11 boots and runs just fine in the Virtualbox VM on my Win 10 machine ...' using an emulated TPM 2.0

I have three Win10 systems (two desktops and a laptop), a Win7 laptop, and a WinXPsp3 desktop. I can also run Ubuntu Linux as an alternate boot on a Win10 desktop and Win10 laptop. And for completeness I have DosBox on my Win10 desktop, and have Win11 running in a VirtualBox VM on a Win10...

Ok, fine. 1) I don't use BitLocker. Never have, never will. Strike 1. 2) I don't use Windows Hello or any biometric login mechanism. Strike 2. 3) Better random number generation. Really? Ball 1. 4) Isolation from CPU. Really? Ball 2. 5) Secure boot seems to work fine on my TPM 1.2 system. Strike...

So if it is so easy to upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11 on a non-TPM 2.0 system (ie, probably a TPM 1.2 system) WTF is the whole point of Microsoft 'requiring' TPM 2.0 to run Windows 11. TPM 2.0 clearly is not an absolute requirement for Windows 11 as it runs fine without it, it appears. So really what is...

Ditto. I have a QNAP TS-451+ with four WD RED Pro 8TB drives running since 2019 and still going strong.

LOL my unsupported-by-Win11 Win10 computer with an 8c Xeon CPU and 128GB of memory runs just fine, and I will keep on using it for Win10. It also runs Linux just fine too, when I dual boot it. It won't update to Win11 since it is TPM1.2. It runs VirtualBox just fine under both Win10 and Linux...

I have separate System and Data drives. I use Macrium Reflect on a schedule to do disk image backups every other day (incremental daily, differential weekly, full monthly) to a local backup drive, and then copy the backup drive to a local NAS, and copy monthly backups to an offline USB drive in...

23H2 is Win11, that is (currently) not included in the Win10 ESU program. Only Win10 22H2 is included. So when Win11 23H2 goes eol the only option (currently) is Win11 24H2. ISTR Win11 24H2 is slated for EOL 11-2026, basically the same EOL date as WIn10 22H2 plus the ESU 1yr option 10-2026. So...

So Microsoft has just removed MORE CPUs from the officially supported Win11 compatibility list ... https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/24/microsoft_win_11_cpus/ So some systems running Win11 now may not be 'compatible' with Win11 24H2 going forward in the future.

So when you use it with Windows can you make it smell like :poop: ???

IDK I'm still running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on one of my systems since 2016, it will go off support in 2026.

Sort of like the Ubuntu Linux LTS release cycle, is that what you are asking for? https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

Why? v8.1.8325 is the current, maybe last, version of 8.1. Unless there is some massive bug (unlikely at this point) it will probably stay the last version.

Indeed I totally agree. I'm staying with Win 10 as long as I can. I have Win 11 in a VM if I absolutely need it for something. Win 12 UI will probably be just a blank window and you type requests to Copilot to do everything. No mouse, no ICONs, no windows, nada. Or maybe just a screen with a...