The majority of recent Windows 11 setups have encountered significant issues.
The majority of recent Windows 11 setups have encountered significant issues.
I chose to install Windows 11 on the oldest computer in the house. It still had just an HDD. Not a good plan. I aimed to save money and make the most of the time I had. I also had a salvaged 256GB NVMe SSD from a broken laptop, so... I figured out how to boot Windows 11 from an NVMe drive on a motherboard that didn’t support it, using a PCI-E riser. The board only supports SATA300. There’s a guide for manually flashing an NVMe or PCI-E storage driver into older BIOS here and there. See the jankmeister 3000 running rocket league 2v2 at 144+fps. Clearly, the NVME drive is meeting all the requirements of Windows 11.
Just keep using version 10 until around 2027-2028, then switch to Linux when support ends. It’s quite old, but some people have managed to run W11 on a C2D setup—maybe someone will try it on a socket 478 machine next. That would be even more surprising.
Yes, I'm using Windows 11 on a C2D setup—no issues at all! It's fully enabled and upgraded from Windows 10.
Ah, this was a clean install from USB media onto the NVME disk directly, older images let themselves be mutilated into something hmm, creative There's a solid way to install W11 from USB on this Jankmaster 3000 and (so far) get all the updates. This machine isn't in serious use, but it's real good I can now play Rocket League when the fam is using the real gaming station.