Unless I’m reading this wrong, it’s all kind of moot.
Devices with these CPUs may not be manufactured with Windows 11 pre-installed and may only be upgraded to Windows 11 by a customer.
They won’t sell OEM licenses for chips that haven’t been manufactured for a few years. Users can still update themselves, and retail licenses appear to be unaffected.
According to the PC health check program my 10th gen laptop is able to upgrade to Windows 11. So either that system hasn’t been updated, or this is just for newly manufactured PCs.
This dumb shit made me go Linux. And I love it so much I’d go Linux for my gaming system if it weren’t so fucking dependant on Windows for gaming. And no, I don’t want to fiddle with Proton layer and deal with bullshit, I just want to play games. But for everything else, I love Linux. Even fell in love with GNOME even though I hated it in the past and was the KDE guy.
The laptop that Windows deems too old running Ryzen 2500U with 8GB RAM and Crucial M.2 SSD does everything in a snap. It’s still a damn 4 core 8 threads CPU. For multimedia and browsing it’s an overkill, but killed off because bullshit corporate reasons. Fuck you Microsoft.
I was radicalized into Linux when my Less-than-a-year-old Chromebook told me I couldn’t update it. I was like “What do you mean you can’t update, I own you.” Maybe I’m old enough to remember when computers weren’t so fucking sassy. I now own four repurposed laptops, a NUC, and a desktop computer all running a flavor of Arch (and one with Debian, as a lil treat).
Thankfully gaming for me is easy; rogue-likes tend to be Linux optimized.
I mostly play online very old games that are hard to run on modern Windows as is and online ones that fon’t like Linux because of anti cheat.
Meanwhile Linux still support Sega Dreamcast’s SuperH SH4, as well as
m68kprocessors from 1979.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux-supported_computer_architectures
