[jjkaczor]

... well... this is all good except... if you use Windows and want to upgrade to Windows 11... am currently fighting with a Lenovo W530 from 2013 - and nothing is working "well", even the recent 2024 Win 11 IoT Enterprise release build that can make TPM/etc optional via a Rufus-created USB stick.

And then testing newer Linux distros is also not working with the nVidia K2000M discrete graphics system.

Am thinking it may be time to give-up, harvest the RAM, the SSD's and the screen and recycle the rest of this one...

[Jolter]

I can’t tell if you read the article. The idea is to not use resource demanding operating systems but stay on some lightweight alternative like a particular Linux distribution.

So how to get Windows 11 running seems entirely off topic.

[jjkaczor]

Yes, I read the article - just venting - I would love to get a Linux or Haiku OS installed on this machine that is able to use the nVidia Quadro K2000M hardware and drive an external monitor configuration - but so far, nothing has worked. This is an older machine sure - and should run just about anything well - i7, 32gb RAM, 1TB SSD. Seems a shame to just junk it because nothing can handle the discrete graphics card except Windows.