Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here is a more nuanced take on upgrading to Windows 11: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/heres-what-youll-need-to-upgrade-to-windows-11/ Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:10 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > Douglas, Jayanand, and Other Windows Devotees, > > My son, a retired computer systems analyst, has been looking into the > Win 11 migration on behalf of his brother, who still runs Win 10, > recommends a close perusal of this Microsoft site, including the info at > the bottom of the page. It gives system requirements and allows the > downloading of a check program to test compatibility of your machine > with Win 11. Recent factory-built computers may have the chip for TPS > 2.0 compatibility (my son's did), but home-built systems probably do not. > > https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11 > > On 6/28/21 6:04 AM, Douglas Barry wrote: > > Thanks Jayanand. That's a salutary warning to all of us Windozers not > > to rush into this. > > > > I'm quite frankly very dubious about W11, as the MS lurch into the > > Orwellian BB culture evidenced by the prying W10 has turned me against > > MS. I'm not quite ready for Chinese state style hyper-surveillance. > > > > That said, I'll probably have to bow to the inevitable and upgrade my > > Sony in the next two years. This will probably require an upgrade from > > my six year old Dell Inspiron 3847 and its 1gb NVIDIA GeForce GT 705 > > graphics card. As it is a tower pc, I had thought of just upgrading > > the graphics card and ram which is an easy do, but the motherboard and > > other innards will probably will let me down in the near future. > > > > To anyone else out there in a similar dilemma, what have you opted for? > > > > Douglas > > > > > > On 28/06/2021 10:29, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > >> Make sure you meet all the conditions, and approach Secure Boot with > >> some > >> trepidation. I just decided to get my computer ready for Windows 11, and > >> enabled Secure Boot on my PC, and it would not even boot into BIOS again > >> after that. I have just wasted half a day debugging that, gaining > >> access to > >> BIOS again, and turning the Secure Boot setting off to get the computer > >> working again! The culprit was my Asus/Nvidia Graphics Card which > >> seems to > >> be not compliant - it is a bit long in the tooth as GPUs go, but is > >> working > >> very well, so I have to figure out whether an upgrade lies in my > >> future or > >> not! I will probably just postpone migrating to Windows 11 for the time > >> being - as of now there does not seem to be any compelling reason to > >> do so, > >> other than it is free! > >> > >> Cheers > >> Jayanand > >> > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 6:09 AM Ken Carney via LUG <lug at > >> leica-users.org > > > >> wrote: > >> > >>> OK, we are both ready to upgrade to Windows 11 for a ?calm and creative > >>> experience?. Per Microsoft. > >>> > >>> Sent from my iPhone > >>> > >>>> On Jun 26, 2021, at 6:04 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG > >>>> <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> wrote: > >>>> ?Yes, Ken, > >>>> > >>>> Sharpen was running really slowly on my 2 gb video card. I contacted > >>> their > >>>> support with a list of my home-built computer innards, and they > >>>> suggested > >>>> an 8 gig card. It runs great now. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> > >>>> Sonny > >>>> http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/> > >>>> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information