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4. Use another OS (I hear temple OS is even better then 11 these days)

I would vote for 2. myself, its not like the security updates have been deal breakers before (nothing is secure anyway).

The article doesn't need to explicitly state that, because it's a simple comparison to make.

its not an issue unless you have a 20 year old computer.

Plenty of computers have been made without TPMs in the last 10 years, as well as built by people who have no need for one, or else they simply disabled it.

The article states;

Without Secure Boot or a TPM, though, installing these upgrades in place is more difficult. Trying to run an upgrade install from within Windows just means the system will yell at you about the things your PC is missing. Booting from a USB drive that has been doctored to overlook the requirements will help you do a clean install, but it will delete all your existing files and apps.

If you're running into this problem and still want to try an upgrade install, there's one more workaround you can try.

Download an ISO for the version of Windows 11 you want to install, and then either make a USB install drive or simply mount the ISO file in Windows by double-clicking it.

Open a Command Prompt window as Administrator and navigate to whatever drive letter the Windows install media is using. Usually that will be D: or E:, depending on what drives you have installed in your system; type the drive letter and colon into the command prompt window and press Enter.

Type setup.exe /product server

That is objectively not much different than the majority of Linux installs in terms of what you're having to do just for an upgrade. That's the point the person above was making. You can't click a button, you have downloaded an image, mount it, and run through a setup.

You want to talk "smug", yet you're the one being triggered enough by seeing Linux mentioned in a perfectly valid comparison to the point you have to hop on your soapbox about "why Linux has a bad reputation".

Find God and switch to templeos. /s

Jk. Everyone knows Hannah Montana Linux is the next big thing.

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Or instead of installing Linux as a workaround and having to learn how to use a new OS and having to troubleshoot a ton of inevitable issues to make it work as well as the setup you're used to just... Use a workaround to skip the hardware requirement! In the end both are a way to work around Microsoft's requirements, one is something you need to deal with once just requiring you to follow a guide and you're done, the other will be an ongoing learning process.

Because of course there's absolutely no program a regular person outside of work could possibly need Windows for. None at all. Not a single application. Not a single game. Not a single piece of hardware they're using (like many laptops with hardware needing specific drivers that don't exist for linux).

Nope, absolutely nothing a regular user could have a need for Windows.

I use Linux and none of the programs I need for structural engineering work on Linux.

Trust me, I would totally ditch the dual boot if I could, but sadly, I can't

I'm sorry but "you need to use better applications" is very funny to read when most of the time the Linux open source alternative will never be as good as the product made by the company that has hundreds of paid employees working on it.

My home is more of a democracy than a dictatorship. I could of course forbid them from playing, impose whatever sanctions, But they have fun doing it and they have a bunch of real life friends that join them.

Yeah libreboot is the right coreboot distro, but meh I felt like letting others decide. I personally have my x220 with libreboot and Guix system

"just use linux" is great advice. Not everybody has the money for PC upgrades. And the amount of people that require specific Windows programs and can not switch to an alternative that works on Linux is extremely small.