[Help] Laptop won't upgrade to Windows 11 - do I need a new one?

[1066familyman]

I have purchased 4 macs since 2020 starting with an IMac, spent €7,500 in total and received around €2,000 back when selling them on. So I would say €5,500 for 25 years of no hassle turn it on and works is pretty good.

I have purchased one old Windows 7 laptop for about £200 about 10 years ago. I've used various releases of Linux Mint on it with no hassle turn it on and works.

 

[1066familyman]

I don't store anything older than 3 months on my laptop. I have four external HDs and back it all up there.
Let the laptop gambol free without having a caravan strapped to its back.

My ongoing digitised music collection is backed up on 3 external HDs and two 512gb sd cards. We can't be too careful with the things that really matter in life

Just waiting for the prices to come down, which they will, for the 1tb cards next.

 

[clapham_gull]

This makes the argument a bit silly. If you buy a cheap Windows laptop, then it won't last as long. If you spend as much as you would on a Macbook, you will get a well-built machine which lasts just as long as a Macbook and will likely be easier to upgrade.

User experience is really down to which a user prefers. I don't love the more recent version of Windows but I still find their user experience better than MacOS with more customisation options.

MacOS is an appalling user experience. For the record I have both a Mac and a Windows PC for work.

Performance wise the Mac has a much better battery life and never overheats. The PC overheats all the time so badly I have to run in on a special heat extracting fan.

Apple were definitely ahead in terms of UI years ago, but have got complacent and to me it feels old.

For home, Ubuntu (Linux) is a dream to use and gets progressively better.

My surface go 1 is a lovely little machine running Ubuntu. It even supports the touch screen. I recently had to buy a new keyboard cos I split water all over it (£35)

So for the money, I've built a lovely and hugely portable machine for £135. At todays prices I could it for much less.

Next time, I'll get a refurbished surface go 2 and do the same. Just waiting for the prices to come down.

The surface is a lovely bit of kit with an operating system that kills them. I've got the bigger one as well (probably 8 years old). I've been using that to remote into my other PCs, but I'm going to dual boot with Ubuntu because I've had such a great experience recently with the latest version.

My current issue, those sneaky guys at MS have been overwriting the dual boot menu, but I'll work that out.

 

[boik]

No let's not. Load a Linux variant like Mint or Ubuntu and wonder why you didn't years ago.

The downsides little. The only thing I can think of the lack of support from various streaming sites, the most notable one being Sky's Now TV.

Linux on a Mac book is a lovely experience. Best of all worlds.

 

[dadams2k11]

You can still upgrade it to Win 11.
You will need to do a few things, though.

- A USB memory stick with 10GB of space
- You will need to download Windows 11 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11
- Download Rufus USB boot creator - https://rufus.ie/downloads/

You create a bootable Windows 11 image with Rufus, and it basically stops all the compatibility checks and bypasses your CPU issue.

Instructions on creating the boot drive -

You simply plug the USB stick into the laptop once you are in Windows 10, open the USB stick and click on Set up and sit back and wait.

 

[Madafwo]

You can still upgrade it to Win 11.
You will need to do a few things, though.

- A USB memory stick with 10GB of space
- You will need to download Windows 11 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11
- Download Rufus USB boot creator - https://rufus.ie/downloads/

You create a bootable Windows 11 image with Rufus, and it basically stops all the compatibility checks and bypasses your CPU issue.

Instructions on creating the boot drive -

You simply plug the USB stick into the laptop once you are in Windows 10, open the USB stick and click on Set up and sit back and wait.

That's what I've done on my old laptop but stopped short of recommending it as it won't install the latest updates, so it's kind of no different to Windows 10 in this case.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Out of curiosity, I checked what my compatibility issue is. Apparently to change it to UEFI(protected boot thing), I need to adjust it from legacy boot but it's not installed on GPT but the usual MBR so I'd have to do a clean install anyway. Linux it is as per my original plan.