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Jeronimo2440
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Oct 04, 2021

The i7-7700K meet the minimun requierments to run Win11. But its not suported, Why?

Hi, I have an i7-7700K. This CPU have TPM 2.0, It's compatible with Secure Boot, it have 4 core up to 4.2 GHz. It also is 64bit.  I don't know why this CPU is not supported by Microsoft to install W...
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Sixpiece
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Oct 24, 2021

Ed Maste one of the employees of Freebsd affirms compatibility of intel i7 3rd generation with bsd 10.2 https://github.com/tas50/freebsd_hardware_info/issues/14

 

i have every reason to believe that each and every architecture is deeply considered by the developers before releasing it. In the case of linux distributions this may be the binding agent between Ubuntu and Linux mint or centos that requires them to stick with Linux as their kernel in order to account for every computer architecture and makes their job easy but I believe that they need to look at every type of architecture that they will support and how they will support, optimize its features… and if not there could be compatibility issues or stability issues and you can even kill your processor…

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nbelley
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Oct 24, 2021
But you seem the miss the obvious point: you can probably use any of today's CPU with any other previous version of Windows. If it supports x86 or x64, you CPU will handle it.

They have no reason to not do the same with Windows 11. No OS will do something like that besides them.
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    Sixpiece
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    Oct 24, 2021

    You’re missing the point… you remind me of Homer in this video based on your good hearted innocence… https://youtu.be/H27rfr59RiE .. you can’t win against this guy and that’s it… not to be offensive and only to show you how Microsoft wants to get ahead and that’s it. They aren’t interested in losing out on opportunity..

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    Sixpiece
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    Oct 24, 2021

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4166530/how-to-manage-a-hierarchy-of-committers-like-linux-kernel-dev

    This thread has a response that sort of explains the Linus hierarchy that finishes with Linus being the boss… not many would like it if Bill Gates or Steve Jobs were the ultimate boss necessarily so hard to imagine why you would want that any better with Linus even if he just earns a measly 10 million US dollars per year that could essentially buy him any processor he wants while he lives in his little 2 bedroom apartment for his entire family in Finland so he admits yes he is taken advantage of , not living with Bill Gates style 100s of billions of us$ but in his words  he is still quite ok… still a multi millionaire  …

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    Sixpiece
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    Oct 24, 2021
    Microsoft has decided not to support i7 7700k. They could but decided not to. It is an economic decision, yes.

    https://youtu.be/Ib7tFvw34DM

    This video talks about how someone had a power pc and it wasn’t supported by Freebsd so they gave him commit access to make it work. If one of us wanted to be a free warrior and just make the code for windows 11 work for free and convince them we are interested in doing it for the long run then they will support windows 11 or like a major business etc.. wanting to dedicate funds for a programming team… but it doesn’t look like it will happen… https://youtu.be/Ib7tFvw34DM

    Enjoy the video… plus windows is not open source and although their code is leaked illegally by programmers they don’t allow random commits by strangers that Freebsd will allow (obviously with some scrutiny) , Linux has a hierarchy so they will not allow strangers to even suggest they need to work their way up the pyramid…