hahaha we have a motherboard with a Z270 chipset and guess which CPU generation is the last you can use on one of those? yeah it’s the generation before the one Microsoft supports
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I strongly doubt they’ll enforce that. the TPM will be a hard limit, but the way Microsoft and Intel talk about actively supported CPUs is usually extremely hand wavy for microcode and stuff like that
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never mind, I don’t give a shit about Windows 11’s system requirements anymore, I now only hate that this means the Linux evangelism strike force is out and trying to be smug about an OS which, let’s be realistic, doesn’t support any hardware newer than a decade old
a real reply I just got:
w11 killer features of advanced window docking are less powerful than any of the tiling window managers I’ve used on Linux.
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I felt my Linux tiling window manager was way more advanced than anything available on Mac or Windows back in 2009. Since then what happened is that I had to rotate through 2 more tiling window managers on Linux, not to gain functionality or bugfixes but because their maintainers quit, and the one I landed on is equally as jank as the one I was using in 2009
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I also think people are overreacting maybe a little bit about being on an EOL operating system for a few years. I don’t think there will be any meaningful support gaps until like 2024 at the earliest, and while I can understand those of you who bought 6th and 7th gen Core being annoyed (even though those always looked mediocre, sorry), I know that I’m expecting my 3rd gen Core which is nearly the equal of your 7th and had been successfully treading water a long time to be much more dramatically outclassed at last in the next couple of years.
but also support lifespans for x86 CPUs have always been way shorter on paper than in practice and if manufacturers are trying to artificially juice investment once a decade I can sort of understand, I’ve personally never gotten nearly this much mileage out of a computer this old in relative terms.
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also fancyzones is in fact barely at parity with Linux WM from over a decade ago (really this whole thing does look like it ripped off KDE5) but as broco said the main obstacle with those has always been not losing a maintainer which is… basically the same thing as a forced OS upgrade
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So I can ignore all this bullshit for a few more years and by that point I’m probably getting a new system anyway, yeah?
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just ask them how playing ganes with anti-cheat is going, I’m sure they’ll have a nice, long response for that
anyway,
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Gonna be honest, I’m excited to NOT upgrade windows for as long as possible
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oh they walked back the TPM 1.2 thing
very good job at messaging going on at Redmond
edit: I should clarify that they walked it back to 2.0
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whatever
fuck me up fam, I’m ready
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i feel pretty sheepish asking about this in the grownups’ computer hardware thread because i don’t understand anything else that happens in here, but i am thinking of finally switching back to a desktop windows pc after about a solid decade of having a mac laptop as my main computer.
i have already decided i don’t want to bother with custom building something (sorry), but i would ideally like to be able to replace components over time and ship of theseus my way into finally understanding how computers work
my assumption is that this is either not possible or more trouble than it is worth for any all in one computer or one of those mini tower things, but is anything in a normal sized tower basically going to allow for replacing things later on?
right now i am thinking of getting a dell xps as there is currently a sale going on that seems pretty decent. i don’t ever pay attention to this sort of thing otherwise, are these things just kind of permanently on sale? it seems weird to sell something for like 500+ dollars off and then just stop doing that arbitrarily, like who would ever pay full price after that.
oh my other question is, is there a compelling reason to not just get one of the monitors they sell through the dell website? i don’t really care about it being the best quality as long as it isn’t an overpriced piece of shit. my instinct is to trust no one and assume if i am being recommended something it is a scam, but also i’m extremely lazy.
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Dell makes pretty good monitors so you’re alright there
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Link a particular model but Dell prebuilts are generally fine and yeah, they’re always on sale like the Gap. Prebuilts might have particular power supplies or motherboards that make replacing parts after the fact harder/impossible even if the case is big enough but it varies by model.
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this is the one i have in mind at the moment:
GPU is a little too mediocre for me to be able to recommend it in good faith but that market is a mess right now, the darn thing is way too big but I understand you want to work in there, and recent intel generations really have like, next to no advantages over AMD but that’s not a particularly bad chip to get in a prebuilt.
you could do worse!
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yeah in terms of the aesthetics of the thing the size is not as big a factor as whether or not it looks like it could also be an energy drink or whatever. i haven’t looked around too much though, open to suggestions!
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I recalled that LTT did Canadian PC secret shopper and Dell both a) ripped them off with add-on warranties and b) made the case nigh impossible to work in or upgrade
They end up recommending iBuyPower overall but HP might be able to get their hands on newer GPUs easier
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Oh god that’s good to know. I honestly ruled out the HP one early because it had a green light on it. I know I am petty. But anyway apparently you can change the color, so I’ll pay more attention to that now
I also didn’t know about ibuypower. I feel like I’ll get incredibly overwhelmed by looking at that site too much but it seems more usable than the one local place I know of that does custom stuff