The big problem is that up until fairly recently, almost everything was still using TPM 1.4, not 2.0, and many AMD systems omitted a TPM entirely. So there’s a huge number of machines out there that are in every other way more than capable of running Windows 11 but cannot due to this frankly arbitrary requirement.
There might be some janky and possibly insecure version of it in Intel CPUs but I think you usually need an external one if you have a desktop motherboard. Motherboards have TPM pins than you can plug one into. Laptops probably come with them these days. Mine did.
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The big problem is that up until fairly recently, almost everything was still using TPM 1.4, not 2.0, and many AMD systems omitted a TPM entirely. So there’s a huge number of machines out there that are in every other way more than capable of running Windows 11 but cannot due to this frankly arbitrary requirement.
Yeah! Which is very nice cuz now chapos can't say we're bullying them into using linux when it's MS that's doing it :sicko-yes:
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There might be some janky and possibly insecure version of it in Intel CPUs but I think you usually need an external one if you have a desktop motherboard. Motherboards have TPM pins than you can plug one into. Laptops probably come with them these days. Mine did.