[Leica] Windows 11

[Jim Nichols]

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/>
>>>>
>
>
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Jim Nichols
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