HP Mini 210-2040SF 2GB RAM Intel Atom N455. Installation of Windows 11 Pro was succesfull with mxman2k MRP and Enthousiast patch (thanks to them) to avoid compatibilies check. Have to fight a bit with the video intel driver but found it in Microsoft catalog. All drivers are ok. Have to disable fast startup as the laptop was beeping like a fool when system was starting (dunno why). It runs smoothly since without any problems.
my main machine is from 2018 and does NOT meet the M$FT specs and just for fun I decided to install the W11 and used some tricks a bit mandrakes but everything worked 100% but I went back to the W10 running and if I ever have enough $$ $ DO NOT go back to W11 after 2029 Linux OS only...
Acer Aspire 3050, Mobile AMD Sempron{tm} Processor 3600+, 2gb ddr2 , 80gb hdd, took just over 2 hours to get to desktop though, but once up and running was ok, a bit sluggish. This laptop came originally with Vista Basic and 1gb ram.
linux still is a complicated os, i managed to get things running like my games BUT directx 12 games and anti cheat are a nightmare in linux. Also i still experiance crashes or a black screen sometimes when i booted my linux os (nvidia driver didnt get fully loaded somehow) i tried linux for 6-8 month after some years not using linux but still windows is way more stable then linux. i do dislike all the spyware that comes with it, i disabled every spyware in the os. If linux has sorted all the issues i might switch, but for daily use and ease i stick with Windows. I must admit Linux makes progress in the right direction (thanks to steam) but progress is really slow.
They existed and still exist (trascend has many models) but they are expensive. Way better to use an mSata <--> PATA adapter, mSATA drives are not expensive, the mSATA/PATA adapters are cheap (around 10$), and as a bonus the drive can be moved easily to a native SATA or mSATA PC. (the mSATA/SATA adapter has not active interface, so it cost next to nothing (less than 5$). Personally I never buy SATA drives for that reason, just mSATA + adapters
It's a smiley, don't know how it got there So I'm still at the bottom with the July 2006 T5500 Fujitsu-Siemens laptop
What about the Telemetry related to unsuported hardware tanking the performance with high CPU usage is there any way to disable it?
No such thing. Aggressive telemetry in 11 affects any system, not just "unsupported" ones. Insider builds in particular are flooded by it - and it's by design. But that's not even the issue. The issue is the 11 shell, being slow and buggy even on cutting edge hardware. If you disable the stutter-fest-window-animations, remove Edge & WebView (widgets) and try a shell alternative (retrobar / openshell / explorerpatcher) it's quite a difference. Then there is drivers. If your device did not even have windows 10 specific drivers, you're gonna have a mixed experience. Obviously must turn off security features known to cause issues with old drivers (core isolation = memory integrity). And finally there's an ongoing bug with misreported performance counters (including cpu usage) that can cause programs to -surprised-pikachu- misbehave. Release 11 SV2 (22H2) will hopefully include fixes for most of these. It already got promising.