Based on my conversations with my clients, it seems like the 2025 date is going to result in the greatest Linuxing of all time.
Romkslrqusz
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This article starts off with some inaccurate information right from the onset, so it leaves me with some credibility concerns that incline me to do some of my own testing.
Since Windows 10 1803, both Windows 10 and 11 Home and Pro have automatically enabled Bitlocker Encryption during the Out Of Box Experience (OOBE) as long as the following conditions are met:
- The device is UEFI and Secure Boot enabled
- The device has a TPM2.0 device that is enabled
- There are no un-allowed Direct Memory Access (DMA) capable devices on a DMA capable bus.
- The user signed in using a Microsoft Account and had an active internet connection at the time.
It is not specific to Windows 11 and has nothing to do with Home/Pro. This has been going on since 2018.
They also mention encryption built-in to SSDs. That is a fundamentally different kind of encryption. With Bitlocker, removing an SSD from a device or accessing it from anything but the original Windows environment will require the user to enter a 25-digit key to gain data access. Without Bitlocker, the on-disk encryption does not prevent data access in those scenarios. That encryption key exists primarily so that you can secure erase the disk by changing the encryption key. The alternative is a block-level erasure, which would put wear and tear on the SSD.
Pretty disappointing to see this coming from an otherwise reputable source like Tom’s Hardware.
Windows 11 definitely has its issues, but I don’t think the author of this article has sufficient knowledge to be writing articles about it.
There’s not a great solution for switching to UEFI in an existing install
MBR2GPT is baked into Windows and works great as long as you don’t have a jacked up partition layout.
Windows 11 demands a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 security coprocessor, which isn’t in many PCs that meet all the other requirements.
Part of the reason that Intel 8xxx and Ryzen 2xxx processors are the baseline “requirement” is that they have fTPM 2.0 embedded in the silicon. It’s actually in the overwhelming majority of devices that meet the other requirements.
There appears to be no loss in functionality when bypassing the installation requirements… so why do they exist?
Microsoft could provide a more limited Windows 11 experience to PCs that don’t meet the strict requirements
By providing and sanctioning a “limited” experience, Microsoft would then have to dedicate resources to supporting that experience. I’ve worked with tons of legacy devices that had odd quirks that required workarounds in Windows 10, so I can’t really blame them for wanting to limit how they spend their support resources.
The right sync is actually an excellent backup, and compliments other methods (like local storage) quite nicely.
Any worthwhile sync will delete to a recycle bin and support versioning of files. A bad actor would have to have account level access to dump the recycle bin, which proper use of MFA can limit in the majority of cases.
A sync will also make it easier to propagate files to an offsite copy, as you can have a connected device in a separate location.
One of the most important aspects in backups is convenience. Anything that is a task or chore risks getting put off - I see it all the time.
Settings > System > Notifications > Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows
Disable this, there are a few others in that area you might consider disabling too
I’d rather edit every single post / comment to say “Fuck u/spez” but I don’t know how to use the API to do that and I don’t have the time to commit to that project :/
I swear this gets posted weekly, there’s a simple solution but it’s always missing from the comments.
Go into notification settings
Uncheck "Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows"
While you’re at it, turn off any of the other suggestion / recommendation settings.
To avoid tiny illegible text being crammed in there. They’re just using what would otherwise have been empty space to make the information fit.
With a $1,000 budget it gave me an $820 gaming build sporting a Ryzen 5 2600X and GTX1660.
It also recommended a $60 WD Blue 500GB SSD.
He robbed from the rich and he gave to the poor
By what metric (other than clickbaity tech publication headlines)?
Every Windows release, even including “the good ones”, my repair shop has been inundated with requests to go back or post-upgrade troubleshooting work.
We’ve had none of that since 11’s release. The only botched upgrades were due to underlying hardware conditions and everyone else has been neutral at worst.