this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2023
474 points (91.9% liked)

Technology

60073 readers
2960 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
474
Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline (www.express.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
399 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I assume eventually they'll drop the UEFI security requirement, which is why 90% of the "can't" cases occur.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uefi isn't the push, the push is tpm 2.0, which I think is a much much larger percentage of "incompatibilities". tpm allows for drm that is much harder to bypass, since the random number generator operates securely in hardware. It's for their benefit not yours.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Precisely why I'm in no rush to "upgrade".

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

My Windows install is still in compatibility mode. It's the sole reason I can't upgrade to 11, not that I want to. I can't be bothered to reinstall Windows on UEFI when there's no point anyway. I'll happily stick to 10.