WINDOWS 11

[JeffH]

[Triggersmob]

My laptop was renewed about the same time as Ralf's and mine is OK for Windows 11 too.

[gweidion]

I'm on an old Toshiba laptop here and still running Windows 7 fine. You have to avoid the forced Windows "updates" which would screw up the OS.
I have a "new" laptop bought from Dell a bit over a year ago. Out of warranty and never even been out of it's box. I hope it works when I need it.

[Basilstate]

I'm on an old Toshiba laptop here and still running Windows 7 fine. You have to avoid the forced Windows "updates" which would screw up the OS.
I have a "new" laptop bought from Dell a bit over a year ago. Out of warranty and never even been out of it's box. I hope it works when I need it.

I had a Lenovo that came with Win.7,upgraded to 8 & then 10 with no problems.One of the early 10 revisions last year would not load and gave up error messages or just stalled.However the latest revision early this year(?,late last year) loaded fine.Hardly ever use it these days,use my Smart Phone,but its still working Ok.
10 is a much better system overall than 7,IMO,uses less resources,longer battery life and faster boot.Only thing western countries intelligence agencies can monitor them thru the back door so don't design a bomb on one,LOL.

[gweidion]

I would have been happy to stay on Windows XP if the game support had been there. Pretty much all Windows is bloatware with multitudes of unnecessary or unwanted crap. Wonderful Windows "features".
PCs when I started ran Disc Operating System (DOS) and at least you knew what was going on for the most part.

I made the mistake of upgrading my games PC from 7 to the free version of 10. You can't run 7 on new PCs, no support for the hardware.

Generally every second version of Windows is crap. The question then becomes "Is 10 good or bad?" and you'll know what 11 is.

[ken-a]

The checker that they had up there the other day did not like my Lenovo T430 laptop.  I did not bother to run the checks on any of my desktop machines since none of the have TPM modules in them.

My experience with the Windows Operating systems is each initial release was crap and you had to wait for at least one service pack before you deployed it - often it was only SP2 were it was decent for widespread use at least with Windows 2000 and Windows XP (which was very rock solid after SP3).

Then the messed up big time with Vista.  Windows 7 was actually decent from the start and became very good as well.  Then again Windows 8 and 8.1 were disappointments. Windows 10 was also good from the start if you had a decent machine.

So I am not looking forward to Windows 11.

[JeffH]

If you have a reasonably new processor (say no more than four years) then it will probably include the TPM as mentioned previously.

[redlock]

I made the mistake of upgrading my games PC from 7 to the free version of 10.

My Toshiba laptop (Win7) didn't like the free Win10 version. I had to uninstall it.
A couple of months later, I surrendered and bought a new laptop. It was not easy as the Covid-19 pandemic had it's first wave here in Germany and because of ''working from home'' everyone was suddenly buying new equipment.

[redlock]

So I am not looking forward to Windows 11.

Neither am I.

[ausproofs]

I stopped using windows machines about 5 years ago. Never looked back. I use apple MacBook now (work and personal) they run like new even after 5 years.

[Basilstate]

If you have a reasonably new processor (say no more than four years) then it will probably include the TPM as mentioned previously.

Yes,Insiders that are testing say there is a lot of fine tuning as far as hardware requirements go before its released later this year.

  https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/252536/microsoft-may-change-the-windows-11-minimum-system-requirements

[JeffH]

And it will be some time after that before many of us will take the leap. We have been promised that Windows 10 will be supported through to 2025. Although a Microsoft promise might be no better than a Scott Morrison promise.

[Basilstate]

Yes Jeff,under the letter of the law in Australia they have to support it for 10 years from release,which is July 2025, but surely it will be extended but as you say with MS you never know.
Intels 7th generation chips were also released in 2015 which means they should be relevant until 2025.

[gweidion]

I stopped using windows machines about 5 years ago. Never looked back. I use apple MacBook now (work and personal) they run like new even after 5 years.

My son, did something similar a few years back with some free linux distro. It does everything he wants it to do.
Debian, even he doesn't know which version. He says he "hasn't upgraded it in forever".

[JeffH]

One thing I read about Windows 11 is that it will run Android phone apps.

I could not log in to Qantas app, my phone is suitable according to the requirements, but Qantas said it must not be without even asking what phone it is. I could use the app as a "guest" but trying to log in it kept endlessly asking me to confirm my PIN. No trouble logging in to my Frequent Flyer account, with same details, on my computer.

So, while waiting on hold with Qantas I;
•Searched for Android emulators,
•checked reviews of such,
•downloaded one highly recommended in the reviews, [BlueStacks 5]
•installed it and ran it,
•downloaded mine and my wife's vaccination certificates,
•installed Qantas app and logged in with my wife's FF details,
•uploaded her certificate to Qantas and received confirmation she gets the vaccination reward points and entry into their bit prize draw.
All in less time than it took for the Qantas lady to manually credit my reward points to my FF account.

So now I can run Android on my computer with mouse and keyboard support and a high definition 27" display.

I don't know if I will ever need to do so again but the option is there. Interestingly the Android version it runs is one lower than my phone so Qantas suggestion I need a newer phone doesn't hold water.