I used Windows 7 until the end of 2017. After the public release of the CPU vulnerabilities "Meltdown" and "Spectre", I made the immediate change to Linux as they provided transparent mitigations for these catastrophic hardware vulnerabilities and I never looked back.
The release of Windows 11 has only two reasons: Planned obsolescence and telemetry.
I understand the effort of an operating system provider to make intelligent support cuts to open possibilites for broad optimizations, but these CPU lists are pure arbitrariness.
The bar for the Intel processors are obviously Core processors of the eighth generation. The eighth generation includes "Whiskey Lake" which is nothing more than a slightly optimized version of "Skylake" which is part of the sixth generation. So from a microarchitectural standpoint, the sixth generation would be a logical cut. Another example for an intelligent support cut would be the question of hardware security. The aforementioned vulnerability "Meltdown" would be such a point as its mitigation costs significant performance. But native protection against "Meltdown" is only available since the ninth generation. So the ninth generation would be a logical cut from the hardware security perspective.
The bar for the AMD processors is even more inconceivable. They should have allowed every Ryzen Processor, or more correctly spoken, every processor based on the Zen microarchitecture, which would be another logical cut, as these processors were designed entirely from scratch and to include only some processors of the first Zen generation is beyond belief.
The telemetry efforts are obviously typical for the development of Microsoft since Windows 10 and they do not need any further explanation.
My recommendation for everyone who is using Windows 10 at this point and reject the changes made in Windows 11 is to learn how to use at least one operating system based on Linux. It is feasible to make the great move to Linux, as there are still four years time until the official support for Windows 10 is ending.
The release of Windows 11 has only two reasons: Planned obsolescence and telemetry.
I understand the effort of an operating system provider to make intelligent support cuts to open possibilites for broad optimizations, but these CPU lists are pure arbitrariness.
The bar for the Intel processors are obviously Core processors of the eighth generation. The eighth generation includes "Whiskey Lake" which is nothing more than a slightly optimized version of "Skylake" which is part of the sixth generation. So from a microarchitectural standpoint, the sixth generation would be a logical cut. Another example for an intelligent support cut would be the question of hardware security. The aforementioned vulnerability "Meltdown" would be such a point as its mitigation costs significant performance. But native protection against "Meltdown" is only available since the ninth generation. So the ninth generation would be a logical cut from the hardware security perspective.
The bar for the AMD processors is even more inconceivable. They should have allowed every Ryzen Processor, or more correctly spoken, every processor based on the Zen microarchitecture, which would be another logical cut, as these processors were designed entirely from scratch and to include only some processors of the first Zen generation is beyond belief.
The telemetry efforts are obviously typical for the development of Microsoft since Windows 10 and they do not need any further explanation.
My recommendation for everyone who is using Windows 10 at this point and reject the changes made in Windows 11 is to learn how to use at least one operating system based on Linux. It is feasible to make the great move to Linux, as there are still four years time until the official support for Windows 10 is ending.
