I would gladly do that, but it would be sacrilege to the owner. He lives on a small fixed income (the Canadian equivalent of Social Security), but he still splashed out $3000 for his laptop, plus $2000 to fix it, only because he believes Apple products are built by cherubs, transported to earth by angels, and blessed by God himself. They are sacred icons to him.
In his eyes, Apple is justified in crippling his relatively new $5000 laptop, and preventing him from running Jitsi on it, because the company is looking out for him and keeping him safe, by refusing to let him install software that might be dangerous. 🙄
To him, installing Linux on his blessed object would probably be very much like flinging cow-dung onto Michelangelo's Pietà.
He is a very smart man, but one who never had a chance to get much of an education, and that has left him with deep trust in famous brand names, and little ability to judge a product on its own technical merits.
One reason I chose Jitsi for our online music jams is that it doesn't actually need an app to run; it will run right in any modern standards-compatible 'Web browser, including Google Chrome and Firefox. That means Jitsi will also run on any recent operating system, on any computing hardware.
Well, Apple won't let my friend install current versions of either browser on his few-year-old version of MacOS, claiming his operating system is too old. Apple won't let him update his OS to a newer version, either, claiming his hardware is too old. And his touching faith in Apple Corp. prevents him from considering any work-arounds.
I'm not sure what he can still actually do with his very expensive laptop. He relies on a friend with an Android phone to join our Jitsi online music jams.
I hate to see anyone exploited like this by a ruthless corporation, but it seems there is nothing I can do to help.
-Gnobuddy
Any info you can add to that? Links to the process? Tools you use? Do you have to do this again, and again, and again, every time MS thrusts another unwanted "update" down your throat and wipes out all your configuration?
I help keep 30+ desktop computers running in our labs. Windows 10 is doing a good job of slowing down the powerful hardware (2018 Intel Core i5 IIRC) to a sluggish and unresponsive state. If there is a relatively quick and easy way to debloat / detox the OS, I would be interested.
-Gnobuddy
I use Norton anti virus and Windows built in defender etc and have almost no problems with Win 11.
Any attacks are blocked before they can do damage.
My only criticism is its maybe too protective.
I have PC programs I wrote myself on my pc that are blocked by Norton !
It takes some persuading for Norton to let them through.
At least with Win 11 we have TPM and secure boot to help.
Just to comment on recordable media life... a few years I transferred the contents of hundreds of burned CDROMs to DVD media. Only one file on one S**y CD-R was unreadable. I also transferred a bunch of 3.5 and 5.25 floppies, up to 30 years old; many required repeated tries from the command prompt, ejecting and reinserting the disc between tries, but virtually all were ultimately readable. Don't give up because the Windows file manager freezes up reading a marginal disc; go to the "dark place" and try xcopy and copy. I often had to manually replicate the directory structure then copy one folder at a time. If DOS is a mystery, look for a copy of "Running MSDOS".
Ah, I (sort of) miss the sound of a drive reading a floppy: the subtle whoosh, whoosh, of the head(s) reading the disc. And you could tell when there was an issue just by the change in sound.
Apple is now, also, a pain in the ***. My wife just upgraded to an M1 Mac Mini and the difficulties of getting a second monitor to work, or Thunderbolt 4 to recognise a Thunderbolt 2 drive through a dock - because you need a dock with the lack of ports are ridiculous. Of course, you also have to purchase Macs with all the memory you'll ever need because there is no way you can change anything inside.
Apple is now, also, a pain in the ***. My wife just upgraded to an M1 Mac Mini and the difficulties of getting a second monitor to work, or Thunderbolt 4 to recognise a Thunderbolt 2 drive through a dock - because you need a dock with the lack of ports are ridiculous. Of course, you also have to purchase Macs with all the memory you'll ever need because there is no way you can change anything inside.
OK, Microsoft can you just make up your mind. I have two DIY built PC's that claim W11 compatibility when I run Microsoft's own PC Health Check but show incompatibility when running Windows Update. These are both PC's that I built with generic parts purchased from Newegg, Amazon, or Ebay. Conveniently the Lenovo Nano PC and my MSI laptop upgraded without issue. Maybe MS wants to keep us from building our own PC's. I have 9 DIY PC's and have built countless others for others. None of my DIY PC's will eat W11, but most have incompatible hardware. OK, I don't expect MS to support W11 on the Core2 Quad 6600 Windows Vista PC that I just scrapped. I rebuilt it with a second gen Core i4-2400 chip and it runs W10 just fine. That gives it 2 or 3 more years of life, if it lives that long at the hands of a 10 year old grandkid. The PC in the picture is a recent build running a Core i7-8700 chip which met the W11 requirements with a BIOS upgrade. The other is a three year old buld powered by a Ryzen 7-3800X that also meets the W11 requirements.
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ARM did develop some neat RISC based architecture from which many different silicon representations have sprung. The revenues from licensing the ARM architecture have turned ARM into an IP company much like Qualcomm. They have grabbed up several small companies which have technology that complements ARM's CPU designs. As Motorola was being dismantled and parted out by the stock market wizards, 7 of my friends left to start a technology company called Sunrise Microdevices dealing with sub-threshold CMOS logic for RF applications, primarily ultra low voltage Bluetooth. Within a few years Sunrise Microdevices was bought by ARM making those 7 people quite rich. Most of the other people at Sunrise wound up looking elsewhere for work.
No, the health check app says that the machines "will run Windows 11." See the left side of the screen. Whenever you do a Windows Update MS will tell you if your PC can run W11, then tell you to download and run the health check app if it isn't capable. This is seen on the right side of the same screen. The TPM and Secure boot lines are checked on the health check app as are all the other requirements.
I was told that maybe MS has not created a version of W11 for my specific hardware combination on a Windows forum, but my Lenovo Nano PC gave me a message that it was compatible with W11, but the version I needed was not ready at the time. A few weeks later it was, and the machine was updated by Windows Update. It seems to work OK and did not suffer any performance degradations, but I don't use it much.
We still have a couple of years before MS makes W10 unsupported, and probably some more time after that to keep using it as my W7 machine has taken 3 updates since its "death date." I will not put W11 on either of my daily use PC's just yet, and this PC is not compatible anyway, but I do want it on a couple machines to learn its quirks before I'm forced to.
Nobody needs W11 now, except for those who just have to live on the edge.....of instability. The two machines that I use daily will stay on W10 until there is a valid reason to switch. I recently killed off my last XP machine since it had no valid reason to exist. It's motherboard, CPU and RAM are now in the W10 machine I just gave my 10 year old grandson for his birthday. I still have a W7 machine so that I can use my ancient M-Audio Delta 1010 eight track 24/96 recording system which uses a PCI (not PCIe) bus slot and XP drivers that don't always work in W10.
That said I will make one or two W11 machines to play with so that I DO know that devil when I need to. I have played with several Linux distributions over the years but the last version that I used regularly was Suse 9.something. I have a dual boot machine that runs Manjaro or W10 but it hasn't seen Manjaro this year, maybe longer. I used it to tinker with Ardour, a freeware DAW for Linux. Maybe I'll revisit it when I find the time.
W11 reportedly makes dual boot nearly impossible due to the secure boot requirements. I have not ventured down this road in many years yet, but my old method was to use two entirely separate boot disks, one for Windows, and one for Linux. Just switch off the 5 volt power to the drive that you don't want to boot from. I once had a quad boot machine that ran Suse, W3.1 on DOS, W95 and OS2 Warp4. OS2 Warp with an X-windows presentation manager was my all time favorite OS. I even had the HP support guy fooled when I told him that I figured out how to run their UNIX based MDS simulation software on a PC. I was also a Beta tester for OS2 when I worked down the street from the IBM plant in Boca Raton where the PC was born.
I have zero issues with dual boot. Windows 11 Pro insider preview and Linux using GRUB, Manjaro GNOME being the Linux flavour I use daily, and the Windows 11 system gets booted once a month for updates.
You can also dual boot using UEFI and multiple devices.
I used to run Warp - I even bought a copy on floppy but IBM killed it and Windows 2000 came...
Then I found Linux to be better and so have used Ubuntu and now Manjaro since 2009.
You can also dual boot using UEFI and multiple devices.
I used to run Warp - I even bought a copy on floppy but IBM killed it and Windows 2000 came...
Then I found Linux to be better and so have used Ubuntu and now Manjaro since 2009.
I'm getting ready to make Linux my window to the world... My XP machine will be stand-alone, as it has legacy software that wouldn't survive an upgrade to Win7 or higher. I have a new laptop with Win11 - that one has been relatively painless so far, after I broke free of the Windows "company store".
Yes, OS2 Warp was great - had a lot of potential. Shame OS2 was killed off.
Like yourself, I have softwares that run only on XP. I stocked up a few motherboards in the event if my current XP board dies.
For portability, I also have a couple of laptops running XP.
If I want to access the internet, I'll dual-boot my XP with a lighter version of Linux.
Installing Linux nowadays is painless, unlike in the early years.