[Leica] Windows 11

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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/>
> >>>>
> >
> >
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> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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