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These days I recommend Debian and go with Flatpak's for apps the user wants to have current versions of. A few Gnome extensions and it looks as good as Windows 11. Debian is known for quality and reliability. Linux Mint is also very good. LTS releases are always best. in my opinion. I have NEVER...

Recently, I have been installing Windows 11 on 10 plus year old unsupported systems with very good results. I had a closet full of old systems and my Wife wants the space, lol. Currently you can easily bypass the system requirements and in my opinion, this will likely remain for Windows 11...

I have two systems running Windows 11. I have been running Windows for about two years now, Windows 10 up until the release of 11. I had been a Linux user for around 16 years. Recently, I wanted to look at alternatives for older systems that do not qualify for Windows 11. KDE Neon seemed like a...

I am seeing this same issue, however, Smartbyte is not installed on my system... I am at a loss at finding the cause of this.

I appreciate the responses! I do agree that some prebuilt systems are perfectly fine. I really should have researched the XPS I bought before buying it... Most reputable review sites rated this system pretty poor and it certainly lives up to these reviews unfortunately. I tested the system...

I recently picked up a new Dell XPS desktop for half price because someone had removed the graphics card and NVME. Seemed like a good deal at the time but in reality it's a total piece of garbage! No VRM heatsink, junk processor heatsink and fan, cheap junk RAM in single channel, no airflow to...

Hardware, my HP laptop is new enough to meet the requirements.

@ Bastet I think they will end up lowering the requirements to anything 64 bit that is currently running Windows 10. Windows 11 installed on my Precision T3610 with no warnings or issues. I can completely understand doing away with the 32 bit versions, it is a complete waste of their time and...

I have 11 installed on a laptop that meets the new requirements and a workstation that doesn't. Neither are my my daily drivers. I've mostly noticed bugs in the UI, things randomly closing out occasionally. Mainly it happens in settings. Heaven benchmark randomly minimized yesterday while...

To my surprise my Dell Precision 3610 is now running Windows 11! It has TPM 1.2 and I am pretty sure it's Xeon processor is not on the supported list.

There are new systems available on sites like eBay that are reasonably priced. Many bought these systems for the graphics cards and are happy to sell the rest of the system fairly cheap to recoup some of their money.

My newer HP laptop meets the requirements and runs Windows 11 just fine. I ordered a new Dell XPS system that should also run Windows 11 well. I wasn't happy about it, I have 4 Precision Workstations that run Windows 10 great but are too old for 11. I finally came to the conclusion that it as...

I ordered a Dell XPS 8940 with an 11th gen I5 a couple of days ago. Also, ordered the premium cooler from eBay for it. I got the Dell for $390.00, seemed like a decent price for a brand new prebuilt. The cooler was $85.00, not happy about that but it was the cheapest one I could find. I did not...