Windows 11 is here. And there is a bug that prevents it from being installed 🐞

I got "incompatible" error so I downloaded MS compat. checker and it says: need TPM

I go to BIOS and enable TPM. The tool now says YES, compatible. But the Windows update panel still says NO, not compatible.

Bottom line, Microsoft does NOT want people to install Windows 11. If they did, then they would not have silly bugs, such as this one. All they had to do is to clear the compat. flag cache after restart

Windows 10 is the last version of Windows.

You're running a legacy bios mode: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/...

UEFI / gpt mode has been the default on pretty much all hardware made after 2012, how you're still in legacy mode?

@hitko that is easy to answer: the manufacturers still use the old procedures to write images:
- install windows with everything required and bloat in legacy mode, since the initialization can't be done.
- generalize it
- write it onto the harddrives
- build the harddrive in.

@stop Not sure which ones you have in mind, all computers we order for our customers with Windows already installed (HP, Dell, Asus, Lenovo) come with enabled UEFI and enforced TPM, many don't even have legacy mode anymore. As far as I know, Gigabyte, MSI, and Asrock don't even support legacy mode on any of their more recent (~3 years) motherboards.

@hitko it was my expirience.

@ostream as one of the Linux Nazis, Windows 11 threw compatibility over board.

Though I must say that this is a welcome change.

Windows hellbent backwards compatibility made lots of things terribly hard.

A lot of features and customization is gone in Windows 11.

I wouldn't try it out right now, it sounds like Gnome 3: Hi, we know how you must work, don't customize, just work exactly like we dictate it, hmkay?

Plus Windows 11 might be from MS perspective GA release (general availability)… but currently that means just that they think it should run. I guess the first two quarterly updates will show which direction Win 11 will go... And if they keep the promises of remaining futures like Android Subsystem or break it.

Probably not a bug.
TPM 2.0 is required for Windows 11, not just 1.2 (like it was previously advertised).

The requirements are stupid as hell, but this seems like the hill Microsoft chose to die on.

I'm stuck in the same boat with a 4790k.

Luckily proton has made gaming much better on Linux and there's active work on anti-cheat. Probably time for me to remove dual boot and go full Linux

I am still disappointed from them not going full cloud OS on this...