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You’re wrong v627
In the May issue on Mint (Save Your Old PC, LXF301), it is stated that Windows 11 requires TPM 2. I’m no fan of Windows but you can, in fact, bypass almost all requirements easily. Also, have you covered alternative inits? Systemd is powerful for corporate environments but Red Hat is eliminating brilliant single use-programs in favour of an everything Frankenstein program.
Nick Sennett
Neil says… We were aware of the TPM situation, but disabling it is very much non-standard and Microsoft could disable installs without it after any update, if so desired – it’s unlikely, due to the outcry it would cause, but we’d let people discover that on their own.
We probably should look at alt inits but, to be honest, it feels like Systemd works pretty well for even home users. I feel people call it a Frankenstein monster without considering that all these functions have been absorbed for good reason, as in they have to be orchestrated neatly at startup – but then it would be good to explain and examine this!