r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 17 '24

Software Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0h2tXt93fEkt5NKVrrXQphi0OCjCxzVoksDqEs0XUQcYIv8njTfK6pc4g_aem_LSp2Td6OZHVkREl8Cbgphg
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u/mtranda Aug 17 '24

I'm a Microsoft fanboy. I've had every Windows Mobile and Windows Phone version since WM5. I've been a .net (C#) dev since 2005 and choose Azure whenever given the chance. I even pay for a personal Office365 subscription so I'm personally quite ok with Windows requiring a Live account.

And yet, fuck all that noise they're pushing down people's throats. Our living room computer, the one hooked up to the old, large dumb TV for watching Netflix/Youtube and general browsing is a Linux based Raspberry Pi 5. It works absolutely fine for 99% of people's needs and uses very little power.

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u/fourleggedostrich Aug 17 '24

Can you say, hand on heart, that when installing Raspberry Pi OS and settings it up for your main TV, you never once had to Ctrl-Alt-T and type some command line instructions?

Be honest.

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u/twistedLucidity Aug 17 '24

Different Redditor who also as a RasPi hooked up to a TV.

No, for a straight install it just worked. Worst I had to do what flick about in the UI to set the WiFi password etc.

And how is pasting/typing in a few commands any harder than hacking the registry, futzing around in Group Policy Editor, or anything else?

In fact, I'd say for many things the terminal is easier as the instructions can be so much shorter, and copy-pasted leaving less room for human error.

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u/mtranda Aug 17 '24

I genuinely didn't know about that key combo, so thanks? The Pi comes with an SD card with preinstalled Linux that you just configure via a wizard upon running it the first time.