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The Latest “Monthly Deterioration” of Windows 11. Blue Screens For “Unsupported Processor”.
That sounds rough.
I am currently using openSUSE Leap KDE 15.5 on an 11th gen Core i7 laptop from late 2020. Also on a 2016 6th gen i7 laptop.
On the 2016, it’s still very fast with Linux.
I installed Windows 11 on it for the lulz (quickly to be removed again). I had to Regedit my way past the fake security features and the unsupported processor (from 2016!) and when I did, it ran very slow and very hot. Sort of like one of those “Vista Capable” laptops did with a Sempron, and the stupid thing is an i7 from 7 years ago.
Microsoft pointlessly adds inefficiency to Windows to make old hardware so unbearable that you buy new computers, and put the old one in a dump somewhere.
Pretty much all Windows ever does is get slower and want twice as much RAM as last time, so you can do the same stuff. It’s pretty bad if you’re dealing with that plus contention for resources from “Modern” Web browsers.
They get you at both ends, and really, is 16 GB of RAM even enough for Windows anymore? They fill it full of God only knows what, because I’m not seeing any useful improvements here.
I joke frequently about an old Windows 98 system I still use on the Internet.
It creaks and it clanks and it can’t do everything. Extended and pushed as far as it can go, it can run SeaMonkey 2.49.5 with updated TLS backports. But the funny thing is, it’s got good games, it’s got *a* browser that can still do a lot of things, an email program you can trick out to grab your GMail. It can play MP3s and Opus files.
Anyway, be sure to get the latest monthly deterioration from Microsoft.
It can open gzip files now, unless you get the Blue Screen of Unsupported 2018 Processors.
It’s amazing how it takes Microsoft like 20 years to add things like ZIP and FLAC support. By then everyone is used to adding adware and hacked codec packs and stuff.
Lately, whenever there’s an improvement, an actual improvement, to Windows, Microsoft simply grabbed an open source library and threw it in. There’s no actual investment, they just gain capabilities by grabbing open source libraries.
It’s the level of support you can expect on a rotting OS from a company that’s firing everyone.