If you’ve bought or built a new PC within the last eight or so years, then it’ll almost certainly have a TPM chip, but the older the hardware, the less likely it’ll be present or the right version.
That meant when Windows 11 appeared with its TPM 2.0 requirement, an enormous swathe of perfectly viable PCs were left without the chance to upgrade to the latest version of Windows
Linux people: Linux would never do you dirty like this.
Mac people: Whoa, they let you use EIGHT YEAR OLD hardware? Lucky!
But over in the phone world:
Android phone :: two years old? We don’t do updates any more. Buy a new phone.
Google/Samsung :: if you buy our expensive range, we can do five years of updates. Isn’t that great!
iPhone SE 1st gen :: still going strong with updates after 8 years.
Google and Samsung do 7 years now. My OG SE hasn’t received an update in a while.
I highly doubt Mac provides OS update on your 2012 MBP, since I have a 2015 MBP that stopped at El Capitan.
Opencore Legacy Patcher is your friend. My old 2015 MBP ran Sonoma perfectly. My 2014 mini runs it perfectly.
My HP Zbook didn’t pass the Windows check, it said TPM is wrong version. i ran the HP firmware update to bring TPM chip from 1.2 to 2.0 version. Reran the Windows checker, it now failed it on the CPU (where as previously the CPU was approved). So they are telling me to keep running OpenSUSE :)
I have a 16 year old ThinkPad running an NVR server for 4 cameras. It’s not happy about it but it works >_<
Nice, the oldest I have is a netbook from 2008. It still works as a mpd server
It has to be easier to just switch to Linux than it is to do these bypasses
I got an Ubuntu 5.10 CD rom in them mail, using Linux then was a major decision. In 2016 I moved to a Linux only lifestyle and it was only a little hard. Now everything is web based and nearly every game in my Steam library runs on stock Debian, I would recommend LMDE/Mint/Ubuntu to any PC gamer and even most casual users.
The bypass is just ticking a box while making the bootdrive to install the OS. If making a bootdrive is too hard, installing linux is probably out of the question.
The bypass thing happens when making the boot drive and is basically the exact same process as Linux. It just asks do you want to bypass it and you click that. If you aren’t getting a boot drive, then you can’t install it. And making a boot drive is the easiest part of a Linux installation.
Didn’t they have their surprised Pikachu face moment about people not switching to 11 already?
Can’t thank them enough, honestly. The only thing holding me back is my fear of messing it up when I try to dual boot. I think I’m just hoping I will figure out a good alternative to the exactly one type of software that I need so I don’t have to deal with that. I mean really, it’s literally just a PDF editor so I know there’s an alternative. It just makes me anxious.
Edit: also, it wouldn’t let me select the language of my comment. It said this community doesn’t allow posts in English. Is that something I messed up or do some communities just not allow it to be specified?
Edit 2: finally finishing up the install now! A few minor hiccups but it was all user error.
Just back up any important files. I’ve had to do many reinstallations because of accidentally breaking things.
For pdf software, using wine is an option. It also has been a concern of mine with switching, but it seems the software I’ve been using (PDFxchange) works fine with wine.
Hey, I just finished my own search for a good Linux-compatible PDF editor. I wound up choosing Master PDF, which works on both Linux and Windows and has a demo available. It’s about $100 for a license which I’ve very much found worth paying.
… I’m sure that there are also methods out there for getting it to work if you find yourself unable to pay the license cost.
As for dual booting, it’s a bit of a learning curve but the software has gotten so much better over the years that I think you’d be easily able to do it. Find some YouTube videos if you feel anxious or if you have specific or unusual needs in your setup and just go for it!
Edit: but back up your files, just to be safe!
Microsoft business was never meant to convince: it’s either forcing their way in by bully OEMs in doing what they want, and make sure Linux isn’t an option, like in the ACPI case, or buy successful companies that elude their direct control (or simply buy companies that already won the battle they are fighting, like their desperate attempt to make a success “Microsoft Game Studio” and instead resort to buy Bethesda, Activision etc.)
