That’s definitely been a catalyzing factor for me. I had fiddled around with Linux and had been pretty ‘meh’ about Windows for years, but I was just coasting along the path of least resistance. Them telling me that I could no longer use my perfectly functional computer for Windows was the ‘last straw’ that finally what made me begin to take action and get ready to say goodbye to Windows.
If you think about it, Microsoft’s timing for this is really perfect. Wait until Linux is very viable for desktop use including gaming then tell vast numbers of your customers that they need to ditch a fully working computer in order to keep using Windows. I expect that this figure will probably double by the end of the year. There’s another article by ZDNet now that says that the share is more like 6% and rapidly accelerating. I’ll post it on the main Linux community if hasn’t already been posted there.
dan@upvote.au 1 day ago
Do you mean the TPM? Any system made in the last 7-8 years should have a TPM 2.0 chip.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Well, my first generation Ryzen didn’t make the cut, and it was doing just fine
Vodulas@beehaw.org 8 hours ago
FWIW, TPMs are on the mobo, not on the CPU. Not to encourage you to install Wimdows, but you can get TPM chips that plug into the mobo.