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by zbrozek 1127 days ago
The desktop computer I've been using since 2015 doesn't have a TPM and is still plenty fast for my needs. And probably lots of machines a fair bit newer don't have them either. Hardware from 2020 is very new.

Luckily, I have no desire to run Windows 11.

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> The desktop computer I've been using since 2015 doesn't have a TPM

Yeah but it's from 2015. Windows 11 is from, like, 2021. That's over 6 years before the OS started asking for something you don't have. I think this is why people cry laziness, because it does legitimately sound that way from an outside perspective.

That doesn't sound lazy. That sounds like not wanting to replace perfectly good equipment.
For me "perfectly good" means "supporting the capabilities required to run the software I need to run" so once I need to run something that my computer doesn't support, it stops being perfectly good.