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Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
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Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
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I've used windows for 30+ years, and I'm getting a Mac this year. I seriously considered Linux on a Thinkpad and even test-drove Debian on my older X1 Carbon. I tried, but too many things didn't quite work. I'd get stuck on the login screen for no apparent reason. VMware modules were a pain to build and sign. Something (might have been VMware modules) caused it to freeze. Hidpi support isn't ready. And nothing was re…
As someone who has used OSX for .. 21 years now and is slowly, but surely moving off: the grass is not greener on the other side. Bugs aplenty, a user interface which has seriously deteriorated over the last decade bundled with an ever-increasing user hostility and tendency to lock you out of your system. One example: you can no longer manage which applications may run as daemons/background tasks. Any application can…
Is there some .dylib or .so file that runs the Chrome registration.. chmod that file and maybe it will stop doing that.
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
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Long-time Windows user here that made the jump from Windows 11+WSL to Linux a few months ago. After test driving a few distros, I settled on CachyOS (an Arch-based distro)[1]. Performance wise it's smooth as heck, and Geekbench scores show it performing better than Win11 across the board. The default install uses KDE Plasma for its desktop, which is a perfect fit for Windows users like myself in terms of UX/UI. For a…
+1 for only office. When I was a data analyst I made this custom graph in Excel that rendered some lines as speedometers. It calculated the rotation based on the input numbers to align them in the right position. LibreOffice could not handle it (and I don't blame them). I was shocked when I opened the file in OnlyOffice and it worked!
On the other hand, I recently tried onlyoffice and could not find a way to format a date with the day of the week
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#264Windows 11 looks like the perfect reason to give UNIX-based systems another try. Literally the only thing that's kept me hooked to Windows are the Office apps. They're baked into so many of my workflows, from creating simple graphics to doing my personal finances, and of course plenty of legacy documents that I'd like to continue being able to use. They're really Windows-native I've found, even the official versions…
Microsoft Word worked pretty well in Wine the last time I tried it, I wouldn't doubt rest of the Office apps worked fine as well.
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#265Windows 11 looks like the perfect reason to give UNIX-based systems another try. Literally the only thing that's kept me hooked to Windows are the Office apps. They're baked into so many of my workflows, from creating simple graphics to doing my personal finances, and of course plenty of legacy documents that I'd like to continue being able to use. They're really Windows-native I've found, even the official versions…
When I see people waking up now I wonder what's taken them so long. I could see this 15 years ago and jumped off Windows at that point. Been using Linux ever since. It's become so easy since then I've intentionally made my life more difficult by switching to Gentoo about 5 years ago. I'm so glad none of my work is locked into the products of rent seeking companies like Microsoft. It was easier for me because 15 years…
Since Windows XP that is is going to be the year of Linux migration following the Windows exodus after each Windows version is announced, and here we are.
Even Valve can't get the folks targeting Android to port their NDK powered games into SteamDeck, they have to translate Windows/DirectX instead.
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
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Intel SGX was never pushed on anyone and it's also Intel only Skylake to Ice lake and requires vendors to provide consistent firmware updates to stay secure. You can’t run the entire OS in SGX enclave because it can’t do I/O on its own. > There are TPM 2.0 dTPMs. If the conspiracy is that they want to push people towards "hardware attestation", then they're doing a pretty bad job. No "normies" are doing TPM bypasses.…
>Intel SGX was never pushed on anyone Considering that's the only way to play most DRM protected 4K videos, it's probably more of a "push" than requiring TPM. It didn't even have the fig leaf of being usable for FDE or webauthn. >No "normies" are doing TPM bypasses. That’s the point. Majority will eventually be on unbypassable TPM. If the bar is "normies", then you don't even need TPM. You can just slap denuvo or wha…
You can just not buy blurays, they were never popular on PCs anyway. TPM is being pushed on everyone upgrading to Win11. One is opt in, the other is maybe opt out if you jump through hoops, for now. Very different. Also you can do other things with SGX though admittedly it’s mostly useful on servers, but you would still use SGX indirectly via remote attestation. E.g. it’s what Signal uses for some of its core functionality.
> If the bar is "normies", then you don't even need TPM. You can just slap denuvo or whatever and call it a day.
Again, missing the point. Denuvo, Widevine, whatever, it’s all weak to crack once & enjoy but only if you control the OS. The Great TPM Conspiracy Theory is about limiting what you can do with your mainstream Windows/Linux/Macos installation, in the ways I’ve laid out earlier. Taking the ‘P’ out of PC.
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#268Windows 11 looks like the perfect reason to give UNIX-based systems another try. Literally the only thing that's kept me hooked to Windows are the Office apps. They're baked into so many of my workflows, from creating simple graphics to doing my personal finances, and of course plenty of legacy documents that I'd like to continue being able to use. They're really Windows-native I've found, even the official versions…
For me it is only Excel. I am not even a power user, but its strongest features is its integration with powerquery. In many use cases it is perfectly enough to quickly analyze some data and it is still friendly enough to give non-tech workers possibilities to refresh the newest data available.
Apart from that every other part of the MS ecosystem is replaceable. If there would be a solution for corporate IT account management, Windows could be replaced without much friction.
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
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Long-time Windows user here that made the jump from Windows 11+WSL to Linux a few months ago. After test driving a few distros, I settled on CachyOS (an Arch-based distro)[1]. Performance wise it's smooth as heck, and Geekbench scores show it performing better than Win11 across the board. The default install uses KDE Plasma for its desktop, which is a perfect fit for Windows users like myself in terms of UX/UI. For a…
How do you know if someone uses Arch Linux? Don't worry they'll tell you ;) All kidding aside, I recently migrated to EndeavourOS, but CachyOS looks dope too
It is.
Without much fuss.
Tu(r)ned to eleven, speed, bliss & heaven.
On BTRFS, no less!
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#270Windows 11 looks like the perfect reason to give UNIX-based systems another try. Literally the only thing that's kept me hooked to Windows are the Office apps. They're baked into so many of my workflows, from creating simple graphics to doing my personal finances, and of course plenty of legacy documents that I'd like to continue being able to use. They're really Windows-native I've found, even the official versions…
Are you aware of https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_TeXmacs ?
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