I have an Optiplex 7020 circa 2013/2014. It’s beefy with an i7 and 32GB of RAM but doesn’t have TPM 2.0. In fact the Windows Upgrade Assistant said it wasn’t compatible. With Windows 10 support coming to an end, I says lemme try installing W11 on the smallest SSD to see what happens. Worse case I’m stuck with a W10 install for when I need Windows for something.
To my surprise W11 Pro both installed and activated without any issues. I didn’t do any workarounds or hacks to skip the TPM check. The only workaround I used is oobe /bypassnro to use a local account on the fresh install.
I think I have come across discussions in the past where older computers were upgraded to Windows 11 and they didn’t meet the so-called system requirements.
Agree 100%. I keep a Windows install around for when I run across situations that *need* Windows for something or hardware that only has Windows utilities for setup/configuration. For example iTunes to backup my Apple hardware comes to mind at first thought.
Actually we are forced to go back to Windows from time to time because the lack of compatible softwares. Take an example of my case. I have a lot PSD files which are contained with complex designs spread among layers which cannot be opened and work with perfectly in any of the image editing softwares available in Linux. Video editing problem has been solved as Kdenlive is working beautifully and with the help of amazingly helpful developers and members of EndeavourOS distro, all previously ‘unavailable’ video/audio codecs have now been installed. So, Premiere Pro is history. But for Photoshop…. sad to say no. Photoshop hasn’t been replaced yet. I don’t know about other applications but as I use this a lot, I can tell about this and this why we are forced to “downgrade to 11” when we have Linux.
Hi @Skywalker71 ,
We have not heard from you for a while.
Thanks for filling us in on the realities of Photoshop versus potential Linux equivalents.
I think we can look forward to Linux apps becoming more competitive, but it may take some time.
There are a lot of cases where it is a matter of people not wanting to learn new tricks, but in your case , and also with Autocad, I think there is a definite gap in capability between linux apps and win11.
There is also a gap in drivers, particularly for old nvidia cards.
Regards
Neville
Hello @nevj my friend. Yes, I could not come here for a while because from March 2024 to June 2025, it was a bad time for me and my family. We went through a series of accidents, from road accidents to in house. Plus my only child, Goldie the Golden Retriever got an unwanted spot in his eye and we were very busy to treat him and because of an amazing doctor, he is 99.99% cured. Now we are giving him the last phase of his medication. Anyway, let’s get to my post.
Yes, I know it will take some time and I am very hopeful that this ‘file type association’ problem will be solved. And yes, I tried in every possible way but complex designs do get messed up and this is the only cause for me to go back to Windows. The day it will be solved, I will stop using Windows permanently and this is a promise.
So, which features you need are missing in the FLOSS alternatives to photoshop? Have you tried posting feature requests? There might be plugins or scripts which provide the features you need.
The problem I have already mentioned. So I am not repeating and regarding feature request, the feature is there but it does not work as it should. It messed up complex designs and ‘Smart Objects’ (in Photoshop) which is practically a PSD file within a PSD file, doesn’t get recognized at all. It gets merged into a single layer (the ‘Smart Object’) and in that way, editing the source ‘object’ becomes impossible.
I haven’t posted any feature request yet but now, as you mentioned, I think I should and I don’t know about any of such plugin. If you ever happened to stumble upon on one, please let me know. In the meantime, I will also continue my search.