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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Sure, you can install a Win11 on a legacy computer but it will be unsupported, because the bios is unsupported. It won't work efficiently. Legacy computers tend to also have legacy audio, legacy chipsets, you'll probably want to replace the fans and re-gunk and reseat the heat sink, and you'll be dealing with legacy graphics cards that no longer are supported and can no longer update the drivers. Unless of course the graphics are integrated. Anyone with a 10-year-old computer would be better off just buying a new computer. None of those 10-year-old components are designed to deal with the functionality of Windows 11, which is why Microsoft says these older machines can't be updated with Windows 11.
Technically they can. But no one who expects their computer to actually work efficiently without having to swap out every component and card under the hood would want to.
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I didn't say you SHOULD, I said you COULD. I've upgraded many friends' computers to Win 11 - none of them 10 years old, but many in the 4-6 year old range. I haven't had to swap out a single card or component. None of these were a legacy computer - they haven't built those for 15-20 years.
In each case I install a $35 SSD drive, transfer the contents over, then upgrade to Win 11. The resulting computer runs far faster than it did and has a current OS that is supported.
The only thing not supported on an older machine is TPM (Trusted Platform Module), and that in no way affects how the OS runs. It's a security module that is needed more for corporations than for personal use.
I 100% agree with your statement about recommending buying a newer computer. I only posted because I wanted folks to know that you can run the latest OS with no issues on older hardware.