How is warning users that their ancient computer is going to be unstable because they (or more likely, some technically skilled family member) ignored and overrode the minimum requirements?
This isn’t the “Ryzen 2 or 8th gen Intel or up” spec Windows requires. This thing checks for an instruction set that has been standard since Nehalem/K10. There are other operating systems your 18 year old CPU will run just fine, in fact, it’ll run even better.
They can afford to do the ARM check because there aren’t any non-Snapdragon devices that legally run Windows 11 on ARM in the first place.
If this check triggers, the user is running an unsupported configuration that Microsoft already doesn’t want users to run, exactly because the software assumes the system passes the base spec at the very least. They’ve explicitly told everyone their software isn’t designed to run on older hardware, so I don’t see why they should be making their OS work on it. Why invest the time and money to debug the OS on some Intel Atom from 2009 that barely manages to boot the OS in the first place?
How is warning users that their ancient computer is going to be unstable because they (or more likely, some technically skilled family member) ignored and overrode the minimum requirements?
This isn’t the “Ryzen 2 or 8th gen Intel or up” spec Windows requires. This thing checks for an instruction set that has been standard since Nehalem/K10. There are other operating systems your 18 year old CPU will run just fine, in fact, it’ll run even better.
They can afford to do the ARM check because there aren’t any non-Snapdragon devices that legally run Windows 11 on ARM in the first place.
If this check triggers, the user is running an unsupported configuration that Microsoft already doesn’t want users to run, exactly because the software assumes the system passes the base spec at the very least. They’ve explicitly told everyone their software isn’t designed to run on older hardware, so I don’t see why they should be making their OS work on it. Why invest the time and money to debug the OS on some Intel Atom from 2009 that barely manages to boot the OS in the first place?
Have you considered the fact that your daily driver of an OS should… idk, work on normal hardware?
Why run it at all if you’re going to be wasting that much of your machine’s resources on the fucking Desktop Environment?
It does work on nornal hardware.
Enjoy your high-idle-ram-usage spyware then ;)