[Leica] Windows 11

[Douglas Barry]

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/>
>>>