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Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I do use Windows for a lot of specific programs, but this behavior is really pushing me to Linux and to find alternatives to the software I use.

[–] droans 4 points 10 months ago

It's not working because W11 is using a CPU instruction that doesn't exist in older processors.

And by older, I don't mean Pre-Zen or Intel 5XXX... I mean OG AMD Athlon and Intel Core 2 Duo. If you're trying to run on a CPU from 2008, that's on you. These were never supported - hence the title.

The only reason this was discovered was because some YTers make videos of running W10/11 on super old computers.