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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 23:24:51 -0700
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On 6/6/25 9:29 PM, Joel wrote:
> T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>> People who are insane enough to keep using a Win10 PC, unable to
>>> upgrade to 11, rather than just biting the God damn bullet and
>>> installing Linux, are pathetic.  Losers.  Oh I'm used to being
>>> handheld, what is this "terminal" thing (unlike PowerShell, of
>>> course).  FFS, if they have an old PC, can't afford a nice new Win11
>>> box, try Linux God damn it.
>>
>> Joel,
>>
>> It is not "insane" to keep W10 running if you install a
>> good anti virus and stop using M$ spyware (copilot,
>> Edge, etc.)
>>
>> The "can't learn anything new" crowd and the "I must run
>> this exact Windows program" crowd can easily upgrade to
>> W11 by cutting a USB drive with Rufus.
>>
>> No one would like to see Windows go away more than me.
>> But you have to do what is best for the customer.
>> That is, unfortunately, Windows a lot of the time.
>>
>> I would posit that Windows has kept the computer world
>> a least 10 years behind where it should have been.
>>
>> -T
> 
> 
> I oppose installing Win11 without the TPM/etc.  My PC had Win11
> running with the TPM as M$ instructed.  If I can make use of Linux as
> a replacement, so sure as hell can others.
> 
> Win11 is a concept OS, to me.  Something to emulate the motif of with
> Linux.  Debian with Cinnamon basically fits the bill.
> 


Without the TPM you can not do full encryption
of your drive.


I have seen a few of these.  Their computers hardly runs
at all.  I remove the encryption and restore it to
normal and the dead come back to life.


I full encryption of Fedora all the time.  I can not
tell a performance hit.