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[–] figaro 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

These articles cater to the privacy centric, super user type people, which is totally fine, but we should remember that we are not the average user. We represent... basically an insignificant percentage of the user base.

Windows is not actually having a problem getting people to upgrade to Windows 11. There is a small minority of people who see the issues and are loud about it, but I guarantee that 95% will update when their computer tells them they have to update (when it does the "next time you restart we are doing it for you" thing).

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For that to happen they'd have to drop the TPM requirement.

Pretty sure my CPU (i5-8400) has it, but for some reason it doesn't show up. Probably disabled in the BIOS, although I've no idea why.

In any case I don't care until I have a good reason to upgrade. Direct Storage was threatening to be Win 11 only, but I've honestly never heard of any games requiring it yet. And the still fucked GPU prices mean I'm more likely to play those on my PS5 than upgrade my PC for it.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I enabled the TPM in my CPU and I still can't update to W11.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not even sure how it works.

Like, is it just a private key and you ask it to encrypt data and verify passwords?

What happens if it breaks? The only thing worse than somebody else owning my data is nobody owning my data...

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Windows is not actually having a problem getting people to upgrade to Windows 11.

According to this article, they are. It took 2 years for Win10 to overtake Win7 and be more than 50% of the install base. After 2 years of Win11 being available, it only has 23% of the install base.

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

To be fair (somewhat) Win10 had the dumpster fire that was Win8 between it and Win7, so it had all the people upgrading from Win7 as well as everyone that had Win8. Not defending Win11 here, I'm never going to use it.

[–] kevinbacon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sheep, they're goddamn sheep.

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Individual thinking is when you have an aneurysm over telemetry.

[–] figaro 1 points 2 years ago

This place is weird