Microsoft has finally added the official CPU support list for Windows 11 version 24H2, and the company has strangely removed several Intel processors from it.
  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    33·
    5 days ago

    Five years of Windows driver support from Intel is pathetic. This can’t be good for the platform.

    • assembly@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 days ago

      Just realized my 10400 is on the list there. That’s not good. Not sure what they’re expecting from folk but I’m not buying a new windows PC so my options are Linux (probably) and a Mac laptop for my DAW as Linux plugin support is limited

      • BatrickPateman@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 days ago

        I am currently going through my Steam library to find if there are any show stoppers for a complete switch to Linux and Proton. So far everything works fine so I am confident I can ditch Windows soon.

        • assembly@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 days ago

          I actually haven’t played anything on PC since o got the Steam Deck a couple years ago so I’m covered on that front. My last major challenge is going to be music production. Reaper works on Linux and my audio interface works on Linux but I have like 20 audio VST plugins that need to be checked and I’m guessing almost none will work on Linux. So, considering my hardware will no longer be supported I have to find alternative Linux friendly versions. Realistically, I just need to switch to only built in Reaper plugins.

    • corroded@lemmy.world
      8·
      5 days ago

      Where did you see that this is an issue with Intel not supporting drivers? Sounds very much to me like Microsoft is introducing an artifical limitation; this is solely on them.

      • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
        7·
        5 days ago

        From the comments, there are links to Intel pages dropping/limiting support for this only vaguely older hardware.

        With that said, for the consumer, it doesn’t matter who is at fault. It makes Windows on Intel a worse product.

  • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      111·
      5 days ago

      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.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
      3·
      4 days ago

      Pssssss! Let them hate Microsoft. It never really got out of fashion. I am a pro at both systems, so I couldn’t care less and always use the best tool for the job at hand.

  • ArgentRaven@lemmy.world
    18·
    5 days ago

    They know that killing support early makes it easier for people to just buy new hardware, which likely has new windows purchased/included. More money, less effort. And since most environments are locked into the platform, no one gets away.

    I’m already moving a lot of hardware to Linux, but I’ll be damned if I give MS any more money.

    • D1G17AL@lemmy.world
      111·
      5 days ago

      Linux Mint has been a massive upgrade over Windows 10/11 for me. It also still has support for my hardware. Running a 4770k Haswell processor from Intel. Just got forced into buying a new gpu in the form of an RX 6650 from AMD. All together for gaming and general purpose usage Linux is effectively on par with Windows now. Steam have done a lot of work for gamers to make it easier to game on non-windows platforms.

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        310·
        5 days ago

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      58·
      5 days ago

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  • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
    103·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • Sam, The Man@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      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.

      • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        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.