Just want to thank microsoft for screwing me

So basically I cannot upgrade to windows 11, thanks to microsofts requirement for something called TPM. It's stupid, and it's dumb.

Everyone! Can you believe we made it 29 years without bullshit like this to simply use an operating system? I mean, wow!

To be honest though, I hear windows 11 is the worst operating system ever. So in that respect, microsoft did me a favor. Now, it forces me to use Linux Mint, and move away from the CEO of microsoft, I think Nutella is his last name or something like that.

Anyway, great job microsoft. You've successfully pushed away your customers since the days of DOS. I'll be glad once I'm away because then I won't have to worry about forced updates all of the time. I hear there is a ton of stuff that is just literal trash with windows 11.

I'll be sticking with Windows 10 for as long as I can, I'll probably end up using the services of 0patch for updates. Our Wi-Fi is password secured, and I run Malwarebytes Premium, Adblocker Ultimate and uBlock Origin. So I feel as if I'm already well protected.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Any operating-system has to cope with developments in the electronics, and it also has to cope with ever more determined attackers, so it does not surprise me that Windows 11 has requirements earlier editions did not have.

However, I concur with the negative comments about Windows 11 generally.

MS developed a file archiving system very simple and efficient to use, right back in WIN-3 days,when it first became possible to manoeuvre files without using command lines. The next step, as the engineering advanced, was to increase permissible file-name lengths from 8 characters only to ones clear to their users.

So right up to WIN-10 we had a very clear directory structure for programmes and data, quick and easy to use.

Then along came W11. MS kept badgering me to "up-grade" (I call it "up-date" at best) my PC, with 10 installed, to 11, and eventually did it without my authority.

Four things happened:

1) I found it hard to search for anything. MS had replaced that efficient, elegant filing system with a sloppily throw-together mess. It might be partly because MS wants us to store our data on "the cloud" - i.e. the company's own servers, presumably for its own use.

2) MS had stuffed all my photographs into its own, single folder, childishly called "Pictures", having wrecked my folder system for them. Worse, a suspicious number of images are damaged in a very odd way. I had to re-sort them into folders in my own directory with its own name - but the W11 index refuses to list it and I have to use a Desktop symbol for it.

3) WIN-11 has an innocuous weather symbol in the corner of the screen. It opens Bing, MSN and other clutter, as a tile display of links to assorted random items. Among it, was a strange collection of random images, some from elsewhere but some, my own photographs - what the Hell does MS think it's playing at, interfering with my data files like this?

4) WIN-11 refuses access to my two extension hard-drives, so I cannot readily remove my data for external HDD and spare PC storage. It will accept my assorted USB "sticks".