It wasn't confusing enough that Intel named their CPU core 'Core' or that they put 'Duo' after it if there wre two 'Core' cores packaged together, but they also put a '2' after it if it was the second generation, then they dropped the generation number from the name in the third generation, making that the first generation of their new numbering scheme of which you're discussing the second generation.

The only clear option is to use the internal code name, but that's technically not valid once it's released so "Products formerly Sandy Bridge" is the best Intel can come up with. (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codenam...)

Only if you work in a hospital. And who would be crazy enough to build hospital IT on Windo.. oh, wait.

I haven't tried Win11 on personal hardware so far, but since Win8, boot times are not much of an issue in my experience.

Making the whole OS the vehicle for a rent-seeking vendor lock-in scheme built to make you pay more and more to keep up the same set of functionality is more of a problem I think.

Can I modify the command to go from regular windows 10 to debloated windows 11? Do I just need debloated ISO for that to work automatically?

What's the benefit of upgrading from W10 IoT to W11 IoT?

Any specific features?

W10 IoT gets support until 2032 I believe.

Thanks. Good to know it still works. I've got a few unsupported machines I need (ugh, not want) to do.

This is correct.

Using updated Win 10 and current 25H2 iso downloaded direct from Microsoft.

The only thing that is perhaps a little unique is that this is a Win10 Home installation that was previously upgraded to Win10 Pro.

EDIT: Well, there is one more little detail. I used RUFUS to produce a bootable USB drive. Apparently, the install is checking for this somehow.

I reformatted and used WinRAR to extract the ISO to the USB drive and it is currently in the process of installing (30% complete). I'll post the final results.

My understanding is that TPM is secure, and Win 11 still supports TPM. Am I mistaken and/or misunderstanding your statement that Microsoft is enforcing a hardware requirement with a known back door?

I've had to learn about TPMs to figure out if they're the right technology with which to integrate a product I've worked on. I don't agree that they're a "neo-clipper-chip" in any real way based on my exposure to them.

While I'm not a cryptographer... I never really understood the appeal of these things outside of one very well-defined threat model: namely, they're excellent if you're specifically trying to prevent someone from physically taking your hard drive, and only your hard drive, and walking out of a data centre, office, or home with it.

It also provides measured boot, and I won't downplay it, it's useful in many situations to have boot-time integrity attestation.

The technology's interesting, but as best as I can tell, it's limited through the problem of establishing a useful root-of-trust/root-of-crypt. In general:

- If you have resident code on a machine with a TPM, you can access TPM secrets with very few protections. This is typically the case for FDE keys assuming you've set your machine up for unattended boot-time disk decryption.

- You can protect the sealed data exported from a TPM, typically using a password (plus the PCR banks of a specific TPM), though the way that password is transmitted to the TPM is susceptible to bus sniffing for TPM variants which live outside the CPU. There's also the issue of securing that password, now, though. If you're in enterprise, maybe you have an HSM available to help you with that, in which case the root-of-crypt scheme you have is much more reasonable.

- The TPM does provide some niceties like a hardware RNG. I can't speak to the quality of the randomness, but as I understand it, it must pass NIST's benchmarks to be compliant with the ISO TPM spec.

What I really don't get is why this is useful for the average consumer. It doesn't meaningfully provide FDE in particular in a world where the TPM and storage may be soldered onto the same board (and thus impractical to steal as a standalone unit rather than with the TPM alongside it).

I certainly don't understand what meaningful protections it can provide to game anti-cheats (which I bring up since apparently Battlefield 6 requires a TPM regardless of the underlying Windows version). That's just silly.

Ultimately, I might be misunderstanding something about the TPM at a fundamental level. I'm not a layperson when it comes to computer security, but I'm certainly not a specialist when it comes to designing or working with TPMs, so maybe there's some glaring a-ha thing I've missed, but my takeaway is that it's a fine piece of hardware that does its job well, but its job seems too niche to be useful in many cases; its API isn't very clear (suffering, if anything, from over-documentation and over-specification), and it's less a silver bullet and more a footgun.

VBS is also in Windows 10 and has no problem working on CPUs that aren't "supported" in Windows 11

I have literally spent all evening trying to get this to work so I can play arc raiders. Turns out I needed to update my BIOS. So fun.

It is not a mandatory feature.

They might sell more Windows 11 if it ran on more hardware. How does this make them money?

It's worth asking, but I think there's an answer: they want the OS to be transformed into an interface to their cloud where recurring revenue is easier. To do that, they need to make it more like a mobile OS and more locked down. TPM helps this.

No they will make the same money either way because they are selling the OS, not the hardware. They are requiring only newer hardware to limit their surface of exploitation and reduce their compatibility list.

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The DMCA laws prescribe the process. Google (or any other party) isn’t allowed to decide for themselves what is or is not a valid DMCA complaint.

Complain to Congress, they’re the ones who set this up to work this way.

Action against DMCA abusers has happened in a few instances, but it's still largely an unsolved problem without sufficient deterrence from abuse.

https://techhq.com/news/dmca-takedown-notices-case-in-califo...

it is a weapon the music industry wanted, but now has this unintended consequence.

I think it's high time google stopped acting as judge jury and executioner in the court of copyright enforcement.

You can act quickly and decisively and also correctly. Take the average number of reports per day times the average length of a reported segment times two, divide effective work hours per day by that number and hire that many people to process reports. Congrats, your average time to resolution is 24 hours.

If that's too expensive, your platform is broken. You need to be able to process user reports. If you can't, rethink what you're doing.

As long as the bad behavior is profitable, platforms aren't going to fix it: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/meta-reportedly-projected-10...

> But also, do you seriously think there is a massive amount of competition at the scale of a 330k subscriber channel for people to bother pulling off this kind of attack for two videos on bypassing Windows 11 account and hardware requirements

Enough to cause this behavior. I don’t know if theres a mathematical or organization law or something, but it seems like theres always a way to abuse review mechanisms for large communities / sites.

Never enough manpower to do review for each case. Or reviews take a long time.

Content hosts are damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they take their time and are cautious with reports, people end up swamped with garbage that people complain about. If they try to be quick to clean up the garbage, some clean stuff get caught and people complain.

The only frequent obvious problem I see is Youtube not telling people why their videos get hidden or taken down or down ranked. Long time creators get left in the dark from random big changes to the platform that could be solved with an email.

They are absolutely aware of these sorts of abuses. I'll bet my spleen that it shows up as a line item in the roadmapping docs of their content integrity/T&S teams.

The root problem is twofold: the inability to reliably automate distinguishing "good actor" and "bad actor", and a lack of will to throw serious resources at solving the problem via manual, high precision moderation.

The law doesn’t allow companies to do anything other than what they are doing.

YouTube frequently claims this and are frequently caught lying. (Oh, you really watched this one hour video and reached your decision in an email sent 96 seconds after the appeal was submitted? Yeah okay...)

They'll silently fix the edge case in the OP and never admit it was any kind of algorithmic (OR human) failure.

> Rich appealed both immediately. The first appeal was denied in 45 minutes. The second in just five. > The platform claimed its "initial actions" (could be either the first takedown or appeal denial, or both) were not the result of automation.

If they claim that a non automated review occurred but then still took down/denied appeal, what caused them to change course?

What is your source that the restoration of the video was not because of the noise?

Pattern recognition, an innate skill in most humans. When most bogus takedowns are not reversed, but the more people you see talking about them, the more likely they are to get reversed, you can easily see the pattern.

X X Windows L.E. => (e)X X Windows (Wayland) L.E. (Linux Edition)

Even the one major 'windows' app that my mom needs to use is going Web only... so I figure if I install Debian Stable + Widevine that'll cover 99.9% of the use case and I gain an OS that just works correctly.

> imo

Any particular reasons?

A locked in Google platform while Google is helping Microsoft implement mass data collection...

So that all your chat history with the relative goes straight to train Google ads? No, thanks.

Chromebook is absolute garbage

I feel your passion, but I feel this is a little hyperbolic? I feel your passion is directed more at UEFI secure-boot than at Linux. I am no lover of the UEFI secure-boot world, using shims as a first-stage boot loader component whose job is to bridge the firmware’s trusted key infrastructure (typically Microsoft’s signing key) to a Linux (or other non-Windows) bootloader/kernel chain.

> Linux is under control of the same companies

Linux is indeed open source, so are you trying to say that "Linux is EFFECTIVELY under control of the same companies VIA UEFI WITH SECURE BOOT ENABLED"? Or is there a big-Tech cabal controlling Linux in another manner? I get that most big-Tech companies are major contributors to open source projects.

> all major distributions (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu) ship with a shim signed by Microsoft

Having a shim signed by Microsoft makes no difference if these distributions are being installed on hardware without UEFI firmware implemented on the motherboard’s SPI flash e.g. motherboards from Purism (Librem Laptops), System76 (Thelio, Galago Pro, etc.), Framework Laptop (2021 →), Star Labs, Raspberry Pi / Single-Board Computers and uncountable DIY PC builds with motherboards (ASUS, ASRock, Gigabyte, etc.) that expose Secure Boot options. It is usually only when consumer hardware is being used from major OEMs (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.) that ship with only Microsoft’s key in the firmware trust database.

> and systemd

You are suggesting that “systemd” is also part of the lock-in or control (in your mind) of those distributions. But strictly in the context of shim and Secure Boot, systemd is not the same issue: systemd is an init-system/process manager in userland, not part of the firmware/boot loader signature infrastructure. Major distros use systemd, so from a “vendor/lock-in” narrative they may lump bootloader trust and systemd governance together. But strictly speaking your assertion is more of a opinion/ideological piece than a formal technical dependency.

> *BSD is the only escape

Not true. Not all Linux distributions use it — Tails, Qubes OS, PureOS, Alpine, Void, Gentoo, etc., deliberately avoid it. Most minimalistic, privacy, or DIY distributions refuse the Microsoft-signed shim route because their users are expected to control their firmware settings or use owner-controlled keys.

I love xfce. It is so stable and practical.

Payments providers engage in censorship and moral policing, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-vis...

The first instance that I remember was when they stopped Wikileaks from taking donations back then.

Nowadays they censor by putting pressure (by denying payment capabilities) on sites that offer content that they dont agree with.

I realize crypto has become dominated by the investment community, but money is not just a store of value. As a medium of exchange, fiat currencies use money to implement monetary policy and control. Electronic exchange of fiat currency is a permission based activity, and significant transactions are simply disallowed and users often debanked. You don't have to wait for a monetary system to collapse before crypto has meaningful value. That value can come from simply not being subject to corrupt monetary policies and control.

Possibly referring to them pressuring companies from selling adult contact they dont like by threatening to cut off payment capability.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503

Same. It is quite difficult for me to understand the current YouTube addiction... I can go literally years without even opening it.

I think it's only a matter of time before youtube starts injecting ads directly into the video stream, and only allow streaming it at the actual playback speed.

They might even put the ads in different places for different users to throw off things like Sponsorblock.

Google Maps is garbage as well, full of inaccurate shit or meme stuff people added but the process of getting it fixed has been made worse and worse over the years.

The report system has been gimped massively,can't even type in reasons any more just have to select from some limited options and hope for the best. Took me over half a year of reporting a permanent street closure near me for them to actually change it and all the whole they were happy to direct people and cars down it . Other times they just outright reject reports without any reason.

Directions have got more sucky over the years.

More and more advertising has creeped into the maps as well, seeing the logos for stores and restaurants over other places and when zoomed out because they paid to be boosted.

I only use Google for street view and, on google earth, for historical aerial imagery these days, not for navigation. For that I use apps that use OSM like Organic Maps or now CoMaps.

To be fair, they are always extremely thankful when I help them out with stuff.

It didn’t bother me that much until a few months ago when an auto update to Windows 11 bricked my mom’s computer, and since Windows won’t support filesystem that didn’t coexist with dinosaurs and because System Restore doesn’t work, and because the automatic repair tools never work, I ended up having to walk them through flashing a drive with a fresh copy of Windows 11 to get it working.

Oh, also, the diagnostic tools don’t appear to work, and they don’t really have “live USB” support for anything anymore, so I actually had to first walk my dad through flashing Ubuntu to a drive so I could tmate in, mount the NTFS drive and rsync all the files to my server. The only way to save Windows and NTFS is to use Linux, apparently:

If they were running Linux, I would have them set up with automatic system snapshots with ZFS and since ZFS is actually a competently built filesystem the snapshots would actually work.

I am ragging on filesystems but it’s not even inherent to filesystems. I run NixOS on my laptop and every time I do a rebuild it takes a snapshot, so if I break something I can just reboot and choose an older generation, and this works even on ext4. I think this is how Windows System Restore is supposed to work but it has the slight disadvantage of not actually working, or it is so limited so as to be useless (e.g. you apparently cannot restore a Windows 10 restore point from a Windows 11 install, a big problem if the auto update to Windows 11 was the actual problem).

I have debated giving the ultimatum, and I haven’t ruled it out, but in order for it to work I need to be willing to stick to my guns if they call my bluff, and I don’t know that I am there yet. I have been trying to plant the seed though it has not been successful.

We will anyway because the “put a camera directly on those in power” approach ala CSPAN is boring.

Most Americans literally can’t imagine news as anything other than entertainment.

Suppose we hadn't done so; what alternative method of disseminating information might we have used, that would have had within a few orders of magnitude of the same reach?

lol, the evening news was always a laugh if you knew anything about the subject matter.

How is freedom of speech lead to trust? it's more the opposite, when it's free for all anyone can lie and have their lie amplified.

I kind of agree but laws vary from countries to countries. It's quite an hassle to know what is legal in one country and not in another.

Take freedom of speech for instance, half the thing you can say in usa would be deemed as hate speech in Europe.

Society is doomed because we stopped silencing disinformation peddlers. We know what happens when Nazis are allowed to spread propaganda freely - because that happened one time in Germany, and we saw the results. We don't know what happens when antivaxxers are allowed to spread propaganda freely, but it's not hard to guess, and measles cases are on the rise. You can argue it's not YouTube's problem to solve, but nobody else is solving it, so it's hard for me to blame them for trying.

There's also this annoying pattern where 98% of the complaints about censorship are from people who are mad that the objectively stupid and dangerous stuff they were trying to profit from got censored, so it becomes a "boy who cried wolf" situation where any complaint about internet censorship is ignored on the assumption it's one of those. (What if there really is a Nigerian prince who needs my help, and I don't read his email?)

This time, though... Society is not being destroyed by people pirating Windows 11. That is entirely different from censoring things that destroy society, and they don't have a good excuse.

That's just self censorship, since no one will see your videos there

Right, it is explicitly a neo-Nazi platform

Bazzite baybeeeee

Wouldn't all boot issues caused by pacman shenanigans be solved by setting up snapper or equivalent? Luckily haven't experienced one so far

It was the same problems on the Fedora and Ubuntu since ever (I have Linux-based work laptop). Also on Fedora i had to upgrade very slowly, so they could release bugfixes - stable new releases were always crippling my ** Dell somehow.

Easier to work on than Windows but my Linux pisses me off every day.

Problems with docks, forgetting all monitor setups except for the last dock (I use three, two at the office, one at home), Zoom ALWAYS having problems with screensharing, Network Manager issues since forever (can't VPN like a human being, have to use vpnc like an animal), etc, etc.

Ah yes. The Linux user is always holding it wrong.

In my case it stems from having to deal with multiple distros (and multiple generations of distros, eg 3 LTS Ubuntus) professionally.

In other cases, distros give a choice on which tools to use, usually because the new one is better (but also happens to come with its own new bugs).

Unrelated, I love that any "why aren't you using Linux?" question is actually almost always just a thinly veiled "let me tell you why you're wrong" plant.

I've been using openSUSE Tumbleweed for years and while it is decently stable, it is far from perfect.

For example i think the first issue any new user will face is with many codecs not being available in the official repository distros, making various sites (and video plays) unusable. The solution to that one is simple, add packman, which is a community repository that contains all codecs - but IIRC packman is not mentioned anywhere during the install, it is something you need to search for (it is in the wiki). However, packman very often conflicts with the official repos when it comes to updates, making all GUI-based ones (that do not seem to handle cross-repo conflicts like zypper) pretty much unusable as they always give up in the presence of a conflict. And unfortunately some comments i've seen (mainly on Reddit) from people working on the distro seem to indicate at least a minor hostility towards using packman, so i do not see this being solved any time soon.

For an experienced Linux user this is a trivial issue, something that i doubt most (long time) openSUSE Tumbleweed users would even think about, but for someone new to Linux it can be a larger issue they wont find in distros like Debian (though they may find other issues :-P).

There have been other issues i had with openSUSE Tumbleweed, like -e.g- at some point after an update every 3D game had some significant input lag regardless of vsync state. I never solved that one, i just rolled back updates (snapper is great for that, but again an advanced Linux user feature) until at some point -months later- the problem stopped happening. Though now i have another issue where the X server randomly starts not updating the screen for random numbers of milliseconds - essentially it feels as if the entire thing is stuttering - but weirdly enough there are no CPU or GPU usage spikes and it doesn't seem to be relevant to CPU/GPU usage at all. If anything, it does not happen at all if there is some OpenGL or Vulkan program running in a window (so it doesn't affect games at all, just regular desktop use) and sometimes i just end up running vkcube in another virtual desktop (it doesn't matter if the output is visible or not) to avoid it. My guess is that there is some sort of scheduling bug in the modesetting driver as i never had that issue with the amdgpu driver (my guess is the modesetting driver doesn't get as much testing as the amdgpu driver on AMD GPUs), but the amdgpu driver causes the X server to hang after i suspend and resume my desktop since i got a RX 7900 XTX (it did not happen with my RX 5700 XT, which was rock solid), so it is choice between the lesser evil.

If Linux was so good shit would run faster not slower.

Objectively if you want to run desktop performance intensive software, Linux is not the primary place unless it’s AI/HPC or crypto related. Linux is a bad choice for gaming and people like you who try to pretend like it’s not are wrong and they should feel bad for spreading lies on the internet.

My requirement is not to have a random Linux evening. Whenever I try Linux, it eventually involves one or two of these Linux evenings to get something working or something fixed. I'm just done with those. Windows on laptop will sleep and wake consistently without bluescreen. Once the ads are removed, its great. I much prefer battling ad injection to battling critical functional issues. Ads can be ignored until I do something about them; Kernel panicking and locked up screen cannot be ignored.

Dual booting is the worst possible combination, given that any windows update will kill the linux bootloader (major update to be fair, but it will happen and then you have to recovery iso to fix the bootloader every time). Plus having to disable all boot optimizations on the windows side because of tainted filesystem that linux can't figure out without risk of data destruction. I'd rather just use a VM - but the same games that don't run on linux also dont want you playing in a VM.

Dual booting with windows running on the same box? Sooner or later windows WILL destroy the other system.

I like Linux, it's my laptop daily driver, but there's nothing I would do on Linux on my gaming PC that I can't do on Windows.

Linux just has no upside over Windows in a dual boot context.

Stop using Windows 11.

Devops-heavy development, but been a Windows desktop user up until now, with linux just running on servers.

I'll probably go with Kubuntu just because I want something as vanilla as possible with the largest support-base.

Point of order: SDDM is entirely unrelated to the KDE project.

I've been using the Breeze Dark theme for approximately forever and I've never run into the problem you're describing. However, I've very rarely used SDDM... I find its default rainbow-colored background intolerable and use LightDM instead.

Do you happen to remember configuration that you ended up having to change, and is that computer running Nvidia graphics hardware with the closed-source drivers?

SDDM is garbage and I've switched to using lemurs now (for whatever reason graphical display managers are terrible. GDM doesn't allow changing the mouse cursor theme, SDDM doesn't show battery percentage, LightDM doesn't do fonts properly,... the KDE people are apparently working on a new DM, but the info I got was vague as anything and may as well have been referring to the KDE LightDM greeter).

Secure Boot doesn't get in the way, I think. I had it disabled for some reason, but I enabled it to test it for you, and my Debian Linux boots just fine.

I have no idea about the crypto key situation unfortunately.

Yes, I worded that too personal. Of course if you use it so much, consciously, you care about it. I'm in the same boat, and I use Linux for the same reason.

What I really wanted to say: "Most people don't bother with the OS, when it does its job, because there is a myriad other aspects of their life." And I do stand by this. Not because I like it, but because it's my experience with people. They don't rock the boat if not necessary, and frankly, I'm the same, just in different domains.

And so, these people are far from idiots. They just care about different things.

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That's why we have different distributions. Let one of the distributions cater to those who don't want control of their own computer.